Monthly Archives: October 2010

Weekly Announcements – October 25, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Joins LSN Legal Studies Research Paper Series We are pleased to announce that University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) William H. Bowen School of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 22, 2010

1. Are State Public Pensions Sustainable? Why the Federal Government Should Worry About State Pension Liabilities by Joshua D. Rauh (Northwestern University – Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)) 2. Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System’s Land Title Theory by Christopher Lewis Peterson (University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College [...]
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Open Access

It’s  Open Access Week. OAW is an international gathering of the minds focused on creating awareness of free, immediate and online access of scholarly research. I will finish celebrating the week at the University at Buffalo tomorrow (Friday, 10/22) with a presentation – Critical Mass is Critical: A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 18, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing Expansion of LSN Intellectual Property Law Subject Matter eJournal We are pleased to announce the expansion of Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Intellectual Property Law into the following eJournals: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COPYRIGHT LAW eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Property-Copyright-Law.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Intellectual-Property-Copyright-Law Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 8, 2010

1. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management) 2. The Federal Circuit and Inequitable Conduct: An Empirical Assessment by Lee Petherbridge (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) and Jason Rantanen (University of California, San Francisco – Hastings College of the Law) and Ali Mojibi (United States Court of Appeals [...]
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Libraries: Keeping It Real

via I was at MIT a few days ago and had the opportunity to participate in Erik Brynjolfsson‘s class at Sloan School of Management. It was a fun class.  We discussed the early days of SSRN, bundled services, and electronic resources in general. During the conversation, I asked the MBA students if they knew where [...]
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Weekly Announcements – October 4, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Journal of Character & Leadership Integration (JCLI) Joins LRN Partners in Publishing Journals We are pleased to announce the Journal of Character & Leadership Integration (JCLI), has joined our Partners in Publishing Journals within the MRN Leadership Research Network (LRN). JOURNAL OF CHARACTER & LEADERSHIP INTEGRATION (JCLI) View [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – October 1, 2010

1. Gender and Philosophical Intuition by Wesley Buckwalter (CUNY The Graduate Center) and Stephen Stich (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of Sheffield) 2. Empirical Limitations on High Frequency Trading Profitability by Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania) and Alex Kulesza (University of Pennsylvania) and Yuriy Nevmyvaka (University of Pennsylvania) 3. A Quantitative Approach [...]
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