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Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing New Sponsored LSN Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal — Sustainability Law & Policy, sponsored by Florida State University College of Law.

SUSTAINABILITY LAW & POLICY
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Editors: Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law, David L. Markell, Steven M. Goldstein Professor, Florida State University College of Law, and J. B. Ruhl, Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property, Florida State University College of Law

Sponsor: The Florida State University College of Law, located in Tallahassee, draws J.D. students from over 125 undergraduate institutions across the country. Its Program in Environmental and Land Use Law is ranked #11 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report, and offers both a Certificate Program in Environmental and Land Use Law for J.D. students and an LL.M. degree in Environmental Law and Policy. Students in the Program produce the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, one of the nation’s top 15 environmental law reviews. Our law faculty have recently served as visiting professors at the Harvard Law School (2), University of Virginia School of Law, Columbia University School of Law, and the the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. SSRN routinely ranks the Florida State University College of Law as a top 30 law school in terms of article downloads.

Description: Sustainability Law & Policy is an interdisciplinary e-journal covering all aspects of sustainable resource use and development. The editors invite scholarship from all disciplines, including law, political science, economics, and the physical and other social sciences.

Announcing AAA 2010 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with the American Accounting Association, the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the AAA 2010 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting ejournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The objective of the Financial Accounting & Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association is to give greater attention to financial accounting and reporting and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education, research, and professional practice by: (1) disseminating and evaluating teaching methods and materials; (2) encouraging, facilitating, and publicizing research interests and projects; and (3) creating opportunities for interchange and cooperation between academics and practitioners. This abstracting ejournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific ejournals within ARN and, where appropriate, in the ejournals of our sister networks.

You can browse all AAA 2010 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting abstracts in the SSRN database by clicking on the following link. There are currently approximately 35 such papers publicly available in the system. You may wish to bookmark it in your browser.

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Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending January 29, 2010:

1. Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
by Brent T. White (University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law)

2. Conspiracy Theories
by Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard University - Harvard Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard University - Harvard Law School)

3. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School)

4. IBEX 35: 1991-2009 - Value Creation and Return
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra - IESE Business School) and Javier Del Campo Baonza (University of Navarra - IESE Business School)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending January 22, 2010:

1. Conspiracy Theories
by Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard University - Harvard Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard University - Harvard Law School)

2. Constraining Dominant Shareholders’ Self-Dealing: The Legal Framework in France, Germany, and Italy
by Pierre-Henri Conac (University of Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance) and Luca Enriques (University of Bologna - Faculty of Law) and Martin Gelter (Fordham University School of Law)

3. In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking
by Jan Heufer (TU Dortmund University)

4. A True Story About Civil Courts and Company Valuation
by Pablo Fernandez (University of Navarra - IESE Business School)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing New LSN Subject Matter eJournal

We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Subject Matter eJournal — Transitional Justice.

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
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Editor: Bernadette Atuahene, Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law

Description: Transitional justice is the study of those mechanisms, judicial and non-judicial, employed by communities, states and the international community to deal with a legacy of systematic human rights abuses and authoritarianism in order to promote social reconstruction. The SSRN Transitional Justice Journal provides a forum where cross-disciplinary discourse about transitional justice can take place between activists, practitioners and academics. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to): reparations, peace agreements, truth commissions, victim and perpetrator studies, international and domestic prosecutions, institutional transformation, and ex-combatant reintegration.

Here are the top 5 papers downloaded from the SSRN eLibrary for the week ending January 8, 2010:

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

2. Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’
by Joshua L. Simmons (Columbia Law School)

3. Integrity: Without it Nothing Works
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.)

4. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School)

5. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.) and William H. Meckling (University of Rochester (Deceased))

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009

In cooperation with the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting ejournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The AFBC is an annual event organized by the School of Banking and Finance in conjunction with the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. The event aims to promote discussion and interaction among researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in finance and banking fields, and draws a large crowd of both international and Australian participants to the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney every December. The conference runs over three days and includes plenary sessions with distinguished keynote speakers, break-out sessions, social events, a Business Forum, a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance, a session for PhD students, and other initiatives such as the Networking Women in Finance session that discusses gender initiatives in the field. This abstracting ejournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the Annual Conference. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific ejournals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the ejournals of our sister networks.

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Announcing AAA 2010 MAS Meeting Abstracts & Papers on SSRN

In cooperation with the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the AAA 2010 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting ejournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The Management Accounting Section strives to stimulate and improve the teaching, research, and practice of accounting, which assists in the effective and efficient management of entities. This abstracting ejournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the Midyear Meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific ejournals within ARN and, where appropriate, in the ejournals of our sister networks.

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Conference URL: http://aaahq.org/mas/

The Shelf Project Joins LSN Law Research Centers Papers Series

We are pleased to announce that The Shelf Project has started a Law Research Centers Papers series in the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

THE SHELF PROJECT
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The proposal is made as a part of the Shelf Project, which is a collaboration among tax professionals to develop and perfect proposals to help Congress raise revenue. The current deficit, now at $1.6 trillion or 11.2 percent of GDP, cannot be sustained. In the impending revenue crisis, base-protecting revenue provisions that were not possible under ordinary politics become political necessities. Shelf projects defend the tax base and improve the rationality and efficiency of the tax system. Shelf Project proposals are intended to raise revenue without raising rates because the best tax systems have the broadest possible base to reach the lowest feasible tax rates.

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing ERN Editor’s Choice eJournal

We are pleased to announce the following Economics Research Network (ERN) Editor’s Choice eJournal — Behavioral & Experimental Economics (Editor’s Choice).

Behavioral & Experimental Economics (Editor’s Choice)
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Editor: Victor Ricciardi, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Description: The Behavioral & Experimental Economics Editor’s Choice abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts that the Editor chooses to emphasize based on their own discretion or criteria. This eJournal allows the Editor to highlight papers that he or she believes are important for the profession. These papers may be distributed in this Editor’s Choice eJournal either before or after they appear in the regular all-inclusive eJournal. The Editor may choose to write an introduction to an issue that identifies a special collection of papers the Editor finds of interest, and he or she from time to time, may provide commentary on individual papers noting their special interest.