Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin M. Gannon

Kevin Gannon\u27s Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (“Radical Hope”) is a call for all of us who teach in higher education to realize the full extent of our opportunity to improve the lives of others. He argues that by inspiring our students to develop their practice of learning, we not only help them to succeed in school, but throughout their lives

System interactions of stormwater management using sustainable urban drainage systems and green infrastructure

This study explores system interactions of stormwater management solutions using Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SuDS) and Green Infrastructure (GI) within the wider urban landscape. A series of interdependencies between urban components relating to stormwater management are identified. These include physical interdependency, geographical interdependency, cyber interdependency and logical interdependency, as defined by Peerenboom (2001). Stormwater management using SuDS/GI are viewed according to their Hydrological, Ecological and the Built Environment functions during events up to the design rain (non-flood condition) and during controlled exceedance and uncontrolled inundation (flood condition). The inclusion of SuDS/GI into the urban fabric is shown to modify urban functional and relational interdependencies under both these conditions. Within the context of the UK, there are fragmented responsibilities across planning scales created by SuDS/GI solutions which have not addressed the relational complexities that exist between agencies and competent authorities. The paper identifies the key barriers towards effective adoption of SuDS/GI within the context of the UK as physical barriers, perception/information barriers and organisational barriers.This work is part of the Blue Green Cities project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, grant EP/K013661/1.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Taylor & Francis via http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2015.103608

Indeterminacy and Balance: A Path to a Wholesome Corporate Law

This article argues that corporate legal scholarship needs to focus primarily upon the indeterminacy of essentialist theories about the corporation. This will result in greater pluralism, since no essentialist legal theory would become heavily privileged over any other. When such a balance is created between theories, a robust debate can occur where no ideas are raised to the status of being “undiscussable preferences” and no essentialist theory is off the table before the debate begins. This would lead to fewer consensuses but more complexity than presently exists within corporate legal discourse, helping to immunize the law from the sort of oversimplifications that might offer ease of comprehension at the risk of positive error

The Place of Corporate Lawmaking in American Society

This article provides a history of the legal debates over the corporate charters in the American context starting with a famous dispute, originating in a series of contesting law review articles in the 1970s. A brief literature review will recount the academic arguments that have provided the intellectual support for sustaining Delaware’s primacy over corporate law-making in the face of constant attack. By understanding the debates that have sustained Delaware’s ability to lead the American competition for incorporation, this article provides insight into what is regarded as the most important legal instrument for maintaining status quo for actual social relationships within the American corporation: the “market for incorporation”. However, the article will draw attention to the growing skepticism over Delaware’s ability to generate optimal corporate law. This skepticism is most clearly evident in the federal government’s growing willingness to design and to pursue corporate law policies in the face of corporate governance scandal, notwithstanding the fact that corporate law in the United States is “state law”. The consequences of these developments are at present subject to scrutiny and discussion. In sum, this article provides an example of how shifts in law-making networks outside of the firm holds the potential to shift the embeddedness of behavior of social relationships inside the firm

Berle’s Conception of Shareholder Primacy: A Forgotten Perspective for Reconsideration During the Rise of Finance

Adolf A. Berle is celebrated as the grandfather of modern shareholder primacy, but this glosses over his opposition to how Henry Manne used his argument. If Berle were alive today, he would certainly reject this praise. This is not always appreciated in commentaries of his shareholder primacy argument. For this reason, this article offers a nuanced understanding of Berle’s argument, providing a clear observation point for examining the shift from his shareholder primacy argument to the one of today. From this point of observation, the reader can see distinctions within, and potentials for, the shareholder primacy argument and thus the variety of ways that investor empowerment can develop during the current “rise of finance.

Review Article: Bainbridge’s The New Corporate Governance (in Context)

If corporate boards are becoming more than “rubber stamps”, then Stephen Bainbridge and his new book are in the middle of a coup d\u27état in corporate governance. On the other hand, if this shift is not occurring and boards remain “rubber stamps”, then director primacy is no more than managerialism with a twist. Moreover, if director primacy represents the emergence of a new order for American corporate governance, then the merits of maintaining Delaware’s status quo director primacy must be carefully assessed, because the stakes are changing - maybe for the better and maybe for the worse.This article traces what has been argued in the literature to date. Part II will briefly refresh the reader’s memory by presenting one narrative of how the American corporate governance debate emerged. Part III will provide a concise chapter-by-chapter roadmap for Bainbridge’s arguments in The New Corporate Governance. Part VI will take a closer look at what Bainbridge tacitly suggests is the genius of Delaware’s corporate law by mapping the debates which have raged over managerialism, state competition, and Delaware: America’s regulatory laboratory for de facto “national” corporate law. This will provide a snapshot of the context from which The New Corporate Governance has emerged. Part V will conclude the review article by offering some reflections on what place the book holds within today’s American corporate governance debate

Review Article: Bainbridge’s The New Corporate Governance (in Context)

If corporate boards are becoming more than “rubber stamps”, then Stephen Bainbridge and his new book are in the middle of a coup d\u27état in corporate governance. On the other hand, if this shift is not occurring and boards remain “rubber stamps”, then director primacy is no more than managerialism with a twist. Moreover, if director primacy represents the emergence of a new order for American corporate governance, then the merits of maintaining Delaware’s status quo director primacy must be carefully assessed, because the stakes are changing - maybe for the better and maybe for the worse.This article traces what has been argued in the literature to date. Part II will briefly refresh the reader’s memory by presenting one narrative of how the American corporate governance debate emerged. Part III will provide a concise chapter-by-chapter roadmap for Bainbridge’s arguments in The New Corporate Governance. Part VI will take a closer look at what Bainbridge tacitly suggests is the genius of Delaware’s corporate law by mapping the debates which have raged over managerialism, state competition, and Delaware: America’s regulatory laboratory for de facto “national” corporate law. This will provide a snapshot of the context from which The New Corporate Governance has emerged. Part V will conclude the review article by offering some reflections on what place the book holds within today’s American corporate governance debate

The Lost Pelvis.

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Operation of Scarifying the Cervix Uteri.

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