Mark S. Indelicato 2012 TMA Chairman Hahn & Hessen LLP Gregory J. Fine, CAE TMA Chief Executive Officer Ronald R. Sussman 2012 TMA President Cooley LLP Certification Program Capping months of discussion, TMA amended its bylaws in April 2012 to fully integrate the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) program into TMA. The amendments followed agreement between the leadership of the Certificati...

The Voting Rights Act has radically altered the political status of minority voters and dramatically transformed the partisan structure of American politics. Given the political and racial salience of cases brought under the Act, it is surprising that the growing literature on the effects of a judge’s ideology and race on judicial decisionmaking has overlooked these cases. This Article provides...

the problem of protecting the people injured by engine-driven means of transportation has been taken into consideration from 19th century and public rules and principles for protecting the people injured by enginedrivenmeans of transportation in different countries is not recognized as sufficient; because most of the legal systems arebased on fault and it is a difficult job to prove that fault....

economic analysis of law is a new approach in law that emerged in the early 1960's and its main purpose is managing the rules of the legal system in a way to achieve economic efficiency. this approach has been influential in all the areas of law including the law of civil liability and follows to set up the compensation system based on some principles to minimize the costs resulting from damage...

Few micro…nance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure of existing micro…nance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected return investments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that uni…es models of investment choice, informal insurance, and formal …nancial contracts. I then test the predic...

Knowledge transfer has been an important issue for organizational knowledge management programs. This article reviews the plethora of user-generated video activity and the issues it creates for knowledge management activities. Video’s media richness combined with its ability to convey rich narratives can facilitate sensemaking and learning. However, structure and culture are important factors t...

This paper empirically examines the strategic asset allocation and the asset/liability issues in the Finnish defined benefit pension funds. The results indicate that there is a relationship between the liability structure and the asset allocation. While pension funds with younger participants have more equity exposure, more mature pension funds have more fixed income investments. Wide dispersio...