U.K. Counterterrorism Law, Pre-Emption, and Politics

Investment, Uncertainty and Pre-emption

This paper examines irreversible investment in a project with uncertain returns, when there is an advantage to being the first to invest and externalities to investing when others also do so. We show that the possibility of pre-emption can have significant qualitative and quantitative effects on the relationship between uncertainty and investment. In a single-agent real options model, the trigg...

Report of the California Commission on the Law of Pre-Emption

ERISA pre-emption: implications for health reform and coverage.

• ERISA pre-emption of state health insurance regulation—This Issue Brief provides an overview of the issues relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and state and local attempts at comprehensive health insurance reform. It reviews the statute and its history, major case law relating to the interaction of ERISA and state law, and the implications of ERISA’s pre-em...

Global Fixed Priority Scheduling with Deferred Pre-emption Revisited

This paper introduces schedulability analysis for global fixed priority scheduling with deferred pre-emption (gFPDS) for homogeneous multiprocessor systems. gFPDS is a superset of global fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling (gFPPS) and global fixed priority non-pre-emptive scheduling (gFPNS). We show how schedulability can be improved via appropriate choice of priority assignment and final non...

Law, Politics, and International Governance