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Privatisation
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Education Law Prof Blog
The Achievement School District: Progress or Privatization?
By Derek Black
The Arkansas currently has a bill before it to create the Achievement School District. The bill would would give the Commissioner of Education the authority to assign a public school…
Lancaster Law Blog
Pennsylvania Liquor Updates
By Aaron Zeamer
There has been a significant amount of liquor license topics which have garnered media attention recently, especially in the Lancaster area. Last Monday, the Beer Café in the Weis Markets…
Education Law Prof Blog
Call for Papers on Privatization and Public Education: A Workshop on Vulnerability and Education
Amherst College, Smith College, and Emory Law School's Vulnerability and the Human Condition Project are co-sponsoring a workshop on privatization and public education at Amherst on April 25-26, 2015. The workshop's organizers,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Unconvincing Case Against Private Prisons”
Main January 26, 2015"The Unconvincing Case Against Private Prisons"The title of this post is the title of this intriguing recent article by Malcolm M Feeley just now appearing on SSRN.…
Texas Workers Compensation Law Blog
Fighting Back Against the Privatization of Justice
By John Gibson
President Obama has recently issued an executive order that is being hailed as "the most important workers' rights reform of the last 20 years." Additionally, it is a beginning step…
Education Law Prof Blog
The New Politics of School Vouchers: Privatization Masquerading As Constitutional Claims?
By Derek Black
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to debate Richard Duncan in a Federalist Society forum on school choice. In my naivete, I had assumed the point of the debate was academic.…
Alcoholic Beverages Law
Oregon Liquor Privatization Rejected in 2014 Legislature
Late last week, Oregon lawmakers shot down SB 1559, a bill that proposed what some called a compromise on liquor privatization in Oregon. It would have allowed grocery stores 10,000…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Koldertsova on Middle East and North African Stock Exchanges
Alissa Koldertsova has posted Privatisation and Demutualisation of MENA Stock Exchanges on SSRN with the following abstract:The interest in restructuring the ownership and legal form of Arab exchanges has grown in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Profiting from Probation: America’s ‘Offender-Funded’ Probation Industry”
Main February 6, 2014"Profiting from Probation: America's 'Offender-Funded' Probation Industry"The title of this post is the title of this notable new report from Human Rights Watch. Here is the start…
Pension Risk Matters
Pensions Going Postal
Pension issues are hard to miss these days. What is notable is that pension plans influence corporate finance activity in several ways. First, they are collectively and, in some cases,…