The Case for an Orderly Resolution Regime for Systemically-Important Financial Institutions

Outlines the need to give the government authority to resolve a financial institution if its failure poses serious systemic risks, examines concerns and counterproposals, and offers recommendations and considerations for designing such a system

Modern Statistical Methods for GLAST Event Analysis

We describe a statistical reconstruction methodology for the GLAST LAT. The methodology incorporates in detail the statistics of the interactions of photons and charged particles with the tungsten layers in the LAT, and uses the scattering distributions to compute the full probability distribution over the energy and direction of the incident photons. It uses model selection methods to estimate the probabilities of the possible geometrical configurations of the particles produced in the detector, and numerical marginalization over the energy loss and scattering angles at each layer. Preliminary results show that it can improve on the tracker-only energy estimates for muons and electrons incident on the LAT.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (held at Stanford University, 5-8 February 2007

Letter to Pearl Von Allmen regarding AALL visit to SEAALL, August 24, 1970

A letter from Morris Cohen to Pearl Von Allmen regarding Morris\u27 visit to SEAALL and asking for reimbursement for expenses

Networks and Law Libraries

The Tuesday afternoon session of the American Association of Law Libraries\u27 69th Annual Meeting, a panel on Networks and Law Libraries, convened at 3:30 p.m. in the Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Mr. Morris L. Cohen, presiding

The Law Library Rare Book Room

PROFESSOR COHEN: In recent years, the library profession quite properly has been concerned with providing maximum accessibility of its collections and services to the reader. An unfortunate byproduct of this enlightened view, however, has been a popular deprecation of the traditional custodial role of the librarian. To avoid the stereotypic image of the over-protective librarian, zealously guarding the collection against the user, many libraries have neglected their proper responsibility for conservation and preservation. Forty years ago, back in 1941, one librarian said: . . . the current Messianic emphasis on the dissemination of knowledge through books has resulted in undue neglect of the conservation of knowledge in books (G. Flint Purdy, 66 Library Journal 144, February 1941). Valuable materials are being lost through deterioration of book paper and binding, careless photocopying, poor storage conditions and other natural hazards and reader abuses. Accessibility and dissemination require that the library\u27s materials be available for use, but also that they be handled and maintained in a manner consistent with their survival for future readers

Product Performance Based Business Models: A Service Based Perspective

The migration to a service based economy has led many firms to emphasize the service component of their product offerings. This shift has led to the emergence of a business model based on value creation through product utilization, where products are sold as a service, (often referred to as Servicization or product-service systems) The Servicization business model can be applied to both tangible and intangible, information intensive, products and is based on aligning customer and supplier incentives.A shift to a service based model leads to a variety of managerial questions that concern performance metrics, customer supplier relationships and contracting and resource optimization. The paper will review how current research on Servicization relates to these questions. We will also consider the implications of the Servicization paradigm for areas in information management such as cloud computing and decision support systems

Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology

As a long-time friend and admirer of legal education at Dalhousie, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to offer the Read lecture this year. It is particularly warming to have Mrs. Read and the next two generations of Reads here today, since Dean Read was the strongest proponent of the law library\u27s development during his deanship here. One of the designated topics for these lectures has been legal education. With the dedication of the addition to the Weldon Building housing the restored Sir James Dunn Law Library, and the designation of a librarian, for the first time, as Read lecturer, it seemed fitting to focus this year on three sacred, but often neglected, totems of legal education - books, libraries and research. The central role of this holy trinity in North American law schools has been, at least since Langdell\u27s time, affirmed and repeatedly reaffirmed in numerous addresses and reports. Under the pressure of financial constraints and budgetary competition, however, the reality of support and commitment has been often less affirming