How Does Europe Regulate Powers Within Its Corporations? What Might the Answer Mean for the U.S.? An Essay and Review of European Company Laws: A Comparative Approach

European Company Laws: A Comparative Approach is a compilation of ten essays by various authors on the jurisprudence of corporate control within Europe. The book focuses on the company laws within the various member states, somewhat to the exclusion of the emerging EC-level corporate laws. Yet while European Company Laws concerns itself with member states\u27 internal company laws, the book\u27s goal is much loftier than merely compiling the European states\u27 corporate statutes into some sort of practitioners\u27 guide. Rather, European Company Laws attempts to divine jurisprudential truths about the regulation of power within the European company by examining the European company from different substantive law perspectives. Each of the book\u27s nine substantive chapters takes a different approach toward the same destination: Divining the nature of control within the European enterprise

Expander Graphs and Coding Theory

Expander graphs are highly connected sparse graphs which lie at the interface of many different fields of study. For example, they play important roles in prime sieves, cryptography, compressive sensing, metric embedding, and coding theory to name a few. This thesis focuses on the connections between sparse graphs and coding theory. It is a major challenge to explicitly construct sparse graphs with good expansion properties, for example Ramanujan graphs. Nevertheless, explicit constructions do exist, and in this thesis, we survey many of these constructions up to this point including a new construction which slightly improves on an earlier edge expansion bound. The edge expansion of a graph is crucial in applications, and it is well-known that computing the edge expansion of an arbitrary graph is NP-hard. We present a simple algo-rithm for approximating the edge expansion of a graph using linear programming techniques. While Andersen and Lang (2008) proved similar results, our analysis attacks the problem from a different vantage point and was discovered independently. The main contribution in the thesis is a new result in fast decoding for expander codes. Current algorithms in the literature can decode a constant fraction of errors in linear time but require that the underlying graphs have vertex expansion at least 1/2. We present a fast decoding algorithm that can decode a constant fraction of errors in linear time given any vertex expansion (even if it is much smaller than 1/2) by using a stronger local code, and the fraction of errors corrected almost doubles that of Viderman (2013)

How Does Europe Regulate Powers Within Its Corporations? What Might the Answer Mean for the U.S.? An Essay and Review of European Company Laws: A Comparative Approach

European Company Laws: A Comparative Approach is a compilation of ten essays by various authors on the jurisprudence of corporate control within Europe. The book focuses on the company laws within the various member states, somewhat to the exclusion of the emerging EC-level corporate laws. Yet while European Company Laws concerns itself with member states\u27 internal company laws, the book\u27s goal is much loftier than merely compiling the European states\u27 corporate statutes into some sort of practitioners\u27 guide. Rather, European Company Laws attempts to divine jurisprudential truths about the regulation of power within the European company by examining the European company from different substantive law perspectives. Each of the book\u27s nine substantive chapters takes a different approach toward the same destination: Divining the nature of control within the European enterprise

A Contract Theory for a Complex Tort: Limiting Interference with Contract Beyond the Unlawful Means Test

This article examines the history of interference with contract and tortious interference with business relations. It distinguishes the two actions and separates them on the basis that one is grounded in tort law while the other is predicated on contract law. The article concludes by suggesting a limit on the interference action

Software-As-A-Service Economics

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been defined as software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the Internet.  This paper covers the democratization and monetization of software services and uses cloud computing as the primary delivery vehicle.  Cloud computing represents a contextual shift in how computers are provisioned and accessed.  Opportunity and value exists in software-as-a-service for providers and clients, and the economic and technical essentials are reviewed in this paper