Hauke Engel, Per-Anders Enkvist, and Kimberly Henderson – “From the early days of seafaring trade, dealing with the weather has been an integral part of doing business. Today, however, concerns over climate change are taking this to a whole new level, and companies will have to adapt to growing regulatory, environmental, and consumer pressures. This… Continue Reading
Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Report – Recommitting American Police Culture to Democratic Ideals
National Institute of Justice – From Warriors to Guardians: Recommitting American Police Culture to Democratic Ideals, by Sue Rahr, Stephen K. Rice. NCJ Number: 248654, April 2015 “In this paper, the authors advocate for a recommitment to democratic ideals within law enforcement to combat the culture and mindset that officers are warriors at war with… Continue Reading
California drought impacting rural poor – arsenic tainted water
Washington Post: “For many Californians, the state’s long drought has meant small inconveniences such as shorter showers and restrictions on watering lawns. But in two rural valleys, the Coachella southeast of Los Angeles and the San Joaquin to the north, farmworkers and other poor residents are feeling its impact in a far more serious and… Continue Reading
Regulatory agencies post public sections of resolution plans
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Monday posted the public portions of annual resolution plans for 12 large financial firms. Each plan must describe the company’s strategy for rapid and orderly resolution under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the event of material financial distress or failure of the company.… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Bureau of Reclamation, Medicare Part B Drugs, Troubled Asset Relief Program
Bureau of Reclamation: Financial Information for Three California Water Programs, GAO-15-468R: Published: Jun 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 6, 2015. Medicare Part B Drugs: Action Needed to Reduce Financial Incentives to Prescribe 340B Drugs at Participating Hospitals, GAO-15-442: Published: Jun 5, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 6, 2015. Troubled Asset Relief Program: Treasury Could More Consistently… Continue Reading
The USA Freedom Act: A Partial Response to European Concerns about NSA Surveillance
Swire, Peter. The USA Freedom Act: A Partial Response to European Concerns about NSA Surveillance. Working Paper GTJMCE 2015-1. Sam Nunn School of International Affairs – Georgia Institute of Technology. “In June 2015, the Congress adopted and President Obama signed the USA Freedom Act, the biggest pro-privacy change to U.S. intelligence law in nearly 40… Continue Reading
SEC and CFTC Turn to Swaps and Security-Based Swaps Enforcement
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation – July 5, 2015 – Annette L. Nazareth, Davis Polk & Wardwell: “The week of June 15, 2015 saw two of the first publicly announced enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) to enforce security-based swap… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Human Resources Management Meets Big Data in Devising Systems to Identify Star Employees
Via LLRX – Human Resources Management Meets Big Data in Devising Systems to Identify Star Employees: Alan Rothman provides much needed insight and perspective regarding the role of employee performance and productivity metrics, big data, and identifying future leaders within an organization. Although HR professionals and software applications have been engaged to deliver results that yield… Continue Reading
Workplace satisfaction gap grows between SES and staff
Federal News Radio – “Members of the Senior Executive Service report much higher satisfaction at their agencies than the employees who work for them, a new report finds. Using numbers from its study, 2014 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, researchers from the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte Consulting LLP found the satisfaction… Continue Reading
Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
“With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. This article approaches such a comparison through academic references made within the worlds 50 largest Wikipedias. Previous studies have raised concerns that Wikipedia editors may simply use… Continue Reading
Monthly Energy Review – June 2015
EIA – “A publication of recent and historical energy statistics. This publication includes statistics on total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversion values.” Related – see also this GAO Report – Electricity –… Continue Reading
EU Proposed Reg on Protection of Personal Data
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, July 2, 2015. Continue Reading
