8 Great Legal Research and Writing Blogs Posted on January 23, 2014 by Cheryl Niemeier Einstein once said “if we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn’t be called ‘research,’ would it?” The following blogs about legal research and writing will help shorten the time it takes to get from research to knowledge: Adams Contract Drafting provides practical… Continue Reading
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HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013
Ho, Andrew Dean and Reich, Justin and Nesterko, Sergiy O and Seaton, Daniel Thomas and Mullaney, Tommy and Waldo, Jim and Chuang, Isaac, HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013 (January 21, 2014). Ho, A. D., Reich, J., Nesterko, S., Seaton, D. T., Mullaney, T., Waldo, J., & Chuang,… Continue Reading
Preliminary international banking statistics at end-September 2013
“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released today international banking statistics at end-September 2013. The third quarter of 2013 saw another sizeable contraction in international banking activity. Between end-June and end-September 2013, the cross-border claims of BIS reporting banks fell by $508 billion, or 1.8%, to $28.5 trillion. Interoffice positions accounted for most of the contraction, continuing the… Continue Reading
A sound capital planning process: fundamental elements
“The Basel Committee has issued these sound practices to foster overall improvement in banks’ capital planning practices. Indeed, an important lesson from the financial crisis concerned the need for banks to improve and strengthen their capital planning. Some of the observed weaknesses reflected processes that were not sufficiently comprehensive, appropriately forward-looking or adequately formalised. As a consequence,… Continue Reading
Revised good practice principles for supervisory colleges – consultative document
“The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued a consultative document on Revised good practice principles for supervisory colleges. The Committee seeks to ensure that the principles remain fit for purpose and that they describe how high quality supervisory colleges typically function. The key changes include the following: Principle 1 now places greater emphasis on collaboration and… Continue Reading
Monetary policy and financial stability: what role in prevention and recovery?
Monetary policy and financial stability: what role in prevention and recovery? by Claudio Borio – Bank for International Settlements (BIS) “If the criteria for an institution’s success are diffusion and longevity, then central banking has been hugely successful. But if the criterion is the degree to which it has achieved its goals, then the evaluation has to be… Continue Reading
EU action plan to harvest renewable energy from Europe’s seas
Commission sets out an action plan to support the development of blue energy “The European Commission has unveiled an action plan to help harvest more renewable energy from Europe’s seas and oceans. The plan aims to boost this emerging “blue energy” sector – which includes technologies that can capture the energy from waves, tides and temperature… Continue Reading
Predictive Modeling With Big Data: Is Bigger Really Better?
Junqué de FortunyEnric, MartensDavid, and ProvostFoster. Big Data. December 2013, 1(4): 215-226. doi:10.1089/big.2013.0037. Published in Volume: 1 Issue 4: January 7, 2014 Online Ahead of Print: October 24, 2013. “With the increasingly widespread collection and processing of “big data,” there is natural interest in using these data assets to improve decision making. One of the best understood ways to… Continue Reading
New GAO Report on Fair Labor Standards Act
FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT: The Department of Labor Should Adopt a More Systematic Approach to Developing Its Guidance, GAO-14-69, Dec 18, 2013 “Substantial increases occurred over the last decade in the number of civil lawsuits filed in federal district court alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (FLSA). Federal courts in most… Continue Reading
New Report Focuses on Disaster Unpreparedness
Meritalk report [presentation] [snipped]: •”Federal IT professionals give themselves high DR2 grades: •One in four give their agency an “A” in DR2 preparedness and nearly all give a passing grade •Despite the high marks, many agencies fail to test their data recovery capabilities: •In the last 12 months, only 54% of agencies have tested their… Continue Reading
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Issues Report on NSA Massive Metadata Surveillance
Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. January 23, 2014. “The PCLOB is an independent bipartisan agency within the executive branch established by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.6 The Board is comprised of… Continue Reading
Report – New Virus Associated with Massive Bee Die Offs
YaleEnvironment360: “A rapidly mutating virus may be partially responsible for the massive bee die-offs known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has wiped out a third of commercial bee colonies annually for the past seven years, a group of U.S. and Chinese researchers reports. Most scientists, including the study’s authors, believe CCD is triggered when colonies… Continue Reading
