Evasion and Flowback in the Regulation S Era: Strengthening U.S. Investor Protection While Promoting U.S. Corporate Offshore Offerings

This Note examines whether the structure of Regulation S has caused increased flowback of unregistered securities into the United States. Part I discusses the development of the offshore capital markets and the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Part I also details the evolution of the SEC\u27s application of the Securities Act registration requirements to international securities sales, and summarizes Regulation S. Part II discusses the benefits to issuers of using Regulation S, and the effect that Regulation S has had on U.S. corporate participation in the offshore markets. Part II also analyzes the threat that flowback poses to the Securities Act disclosure requirements, and examines the mechanisms through which unregistered securities flow back into the United States. Part III argues that neither SEC enforcement efforts, nor the currently extant private remedy, can effectively curtail the flowback problem caused by Regulation S. In addition, Part III provides recommendations for amending Regulation S to ensure greater protection for U.S. investors and greater certainty for U.S. issuers in offshore transactions. This Note concludes that the SEC should revisit Regulation S in order achieve a workable balance between access for issuers and protection for investors

What We Bring With Us and What We Leave Behind: Six Months in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The authors, a family, reflect on their experiences living, volunteering, and going to school in South Africa for six months. They sought to live in a society in which white people were not the majority and to experience the transformation of the new South Africa, not as tourists, but as participants

How a Supply Chain Stumble Changes a Company’s Policies and Progress 20 years Later: A Case Study of Gap Inc.

Gap Inc. is the third-largest American retailer. Founded in 1969, Gap Inc. holds four brands, Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Gap Inc. made headlines for child labor abuses along with many other large brands. After this negative attention, Gap Inc. began developing policies and practices to combat ethical supply chain issues. These policies included a Human Rights Policy, a Code of Vendor Conduct, working conditions standards, and even capacity building programs that boarded company reaches into communities they touch. In conjunction with the policies Gap Inc. has published several social responsibility reports that have displayed the outcomes of their policies. Overall, this thesis explores how Gap Inc. policies and practices have developed since receiving negative media attention and how Gap Inc. compares in a fashion industry that does not play fair

The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: The Politics of Crisis and Homelessness in Post-Katrina New Orleans

On July 4th, 2007, a small group of housing activists set up a tent city encampment in a plaza adjacent to New Orleans City Hall. The action resulted in the creation of Homeless Pride, a small group of politicized Plaza residents. Six months later, hundreds of homeless people were moved from the park, and it was fenced off. Using archival videos, interviews, and news media, this thesis analyzes the opportunities and constraints that activists, service providers, and local officials faced in light of two intersecting and overlapping contexts. The first context is the immediate crisis of the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, and the second is the longer-term national political-economic context of “neoliberal urbanism”. Because of dire short-term circumstances, Homeless Pride articulated a message of homelessness as a “crisis” even though they had larger structural goals and vision. In light of recent “Occupy” movements, this case study addresses crucial questions for organizers and policymakers attempting to combat poverty and wealth inequality

The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: The Politics of Crisis and Homelessness in Post-Katrina New Orleans

On July 4th, 2007, a small group of housing activists set up a tent city encampment in a plaza adjacent to New Orleans City Hall. The action resulted in the creation of Homeless Pride, a small group of politicized Plaza residents. Six months later, hundreds of homeless people were moved from the park, and it was fenced off. Using archival videos, interviews, and news media, this thesis analyzes the opportunities and constraints that activists, service providers, and local officials faced in light of two intersecting and overlapping contexts. The first context is the immediate crisis of the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, and the second is the longer-term national political-economic context of “neoliberal urbanism”. Because of dire short-term circumstances, Homeless Pride articulated a message of homelessness as a “crisis” even though they had larger structural goals and vision. In light of recent “Occupy” movements, this case study addresses crucial questions for organizers and policymakers attempting to combat poverty and wealth inequality

Holding Space for Progressive Practice

Elementary principals Futterman and Spielberg and Bank Street dean Traugh use a descriptive review process to share their methods for maintaining educational spaces that are grounded in progressive values, in the face of conflicting mandates from the district or the state

Youth-Police Encounters on Chicago\u27s South Side: Acknowledging the Realities

We write from Chicago, a city in upheaval following revelationsabout the police shooting of seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald.In a matter of days, public debate about patterns of police abuseand impunity, a discourse extending back to the 1960s and beyond,has undergone a Copernican revolution. A set of propositions aboutthe nature of the problem, fiercely resisted for decades by publicand private interests, has been embraced by officials and themedia as axiomatic.Perhaps the most striking expression of this sea change was thespeech Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave to the Chicago City Council onDecember 9, 2015. Breaking with the past and his own prior stances,\u27 the mayor asserted that this is a defining moment onthe issues of crime and policing-and the even larger issues oftruth, justice and race. He stated that we must confrontlongstanding institutional conditions that enable and shield policeabuse. He acknowledged that there is a code of silence withinthe Chicago Police Department that must be addressed. Hefurther acknowledged the inadequacy of the city\u27s investigativeand disciplinary systems. And, he emphasized that policeaccountability is essential to effective law enforcement. Mostimportantly, he spoke of this constellation of issues asfundamentally a matter of race-of other people\u27s children beingtreated differently than his children because they are Black