Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:
ZenTra – Center for Transnational Studies Joins Economics Research Centers Papers
We are pleased to announce ZenTra – Center for Transnational Studies has joined our Economics Research Centers Papers within the Economics Research Network (ERN).
ZENTRA WORKING PAPER SERIES IN TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES
View Abstracts: http://www.ssrn.com/link/ZenTra-RES.html
The ZenTra Working Paper Series in Transnational Studies publishes interdisciplinary contributions from a broad range of the social sciences on transitions of the traditional boundaries of national states. The series’ focus is on transnational phenomena from political and legal sciences, sociology, business and economics concerning theories or methods dealing with transnationality. ZenTra – Centre for Transnational Studies is a joint project of Germany’s Northwestern Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg whose affiliates as well as ZenTra’s guest lecturers, visiting scholars and collaborating academics contribute to this series.
Announcing New LSN Protected Lands Law & Policy Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal
We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal – Protected Lands Law & Policy eJournal, sponsored by University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and OlmstedLAW.
PROTECTED LANDS LAW & POLICY eJOURNAL
View Papers: http://ssrn.com/link/Protected-Lands-Law-Policy.html
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Editors: Nancy A. McLaughlin, Rober W. Swenson Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, and James L. Olmsted, Owner/CEO/Attorney, OlmstedLAW, Adjunct Faculty, University of Oregon School of Law
Sponsor: The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law www.law.utah.edu, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dedicated to training leaders to confront the issues of our time and home to the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment www.law.utah.edu/stegner/. The Stegner Center is committed to the multidisciplinary study of natural resources and environmental law and policy. The Center provides law students with a wide-range of natural resource and environmental law course offerings taught by faculty with diverse interests and areas of expertise. The Center also hosts a variety of public programs addressing a wide range of environmental law, natural resource law, and protected lands issues, including the annual Stegner Symposium, conferences, workshops, and guest lectures. The Center’s innovative Environmental Dispute Resolution Program was developed to promote collaboration, mediation, and other dispute resolution processes as a means to address contemporary environmental conflicts. Redefining Alternative Dispute Resolution or “ADR” as Additional Dialogue Required, the program focuses on using mediation and other collaborative processes to build long-term relationships and produce enduring on-the-ground results.
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts addressing the law and policies relating to the protection of land for its ecological, natural, scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, or resource values. Protected lands can be either public or private lands, and include wilderness areas; wildlife refuges and preserves; local, state, and national parks; and Forest Service and BLM lands. Of particular interest are fee title lands held by charitable conservation organizations (land trusts) and lands protected by conservation easements held by land trusts or governmental entities. Protected lands may also result from the operation of environmental law regimes, such as the creation of Habitat Conservation Plans under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and wetland mitigation banks under the U.S. Clean Water Act. Issues relating to the exercise of Native American Sovereignty or Native American statutory and treaty rights, as well as the protection of urban lands, including urban parks, gardens, and “foodscapes,” are also pertinent to this eJournal. Because existing human occupation and use of land often conflicts with protecting the land, this eJournal invites discussion of social issues arising from the removal of people from land or limiting uses of land. Land protection also raises economic issues, including reduction in the value of land and its income producing potential; local, state, and federal tax incentive issues; and the commoditization of property rights through, for example, transfer of development rights programs, carbon offset programs, mitigation banks, and provision of natural or ecosystem services. Land protection raises further issues relating to nonprofit governance, the laws governing the administration of charitable gifts, and the role of the courts as well as federal and state regulators, including the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Internal Revenue Service, and state attorneys general, in ensuring the continued protection of the land. This eJournal is international and interdisciplinary and welcomes submissions from around the globe.
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur Joins MRN Business School Research Papers
We are pleased to announce Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU) has started a MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT – UDAIPUR RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Abstracts: http://www.ssrn.com/linkIndian-Inst-Mgmt-Udaipur-BSR.html
The Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU) Research Paper Series includes abstracts and papers in several areas of management and business including economics, finance and accounting, marketing, organizational behavior and quantitative methods. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMU) were created by the Indian Government with the aim of identifying the brightest intellectual talent available in the student community of India and training it in the best management techniques available in the world, to ultimately create a pool of elite managers to manage and lead the various sections of the Indian economy. IIMU plays a leading role in the nation’s managerial manpower development in addition to carrying out research in emerging areas. Our Institute is recognized as premier management institution, comparable to the best in the world for teaching, research and interaction with industries. IIM Udaipur aims to set a new benchmark in the field of management education by delivering a high quality of education through the dissemination of knowledge. Set in the picturesque backdrop of Udaipur, one of the busiest tourist attractions in India, the Institute strives to roll out a curriculum that will be most in-line with industry with a focus on global business practices.
Announcing the American Finance Association 2013 Meetings eJournal
In cooperation with the American Finance Association (AFA), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings. This eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the conference papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.
The American Finance Association (AFA) sponsors an annual meeting each January where the President speaks on a chosen topic and papers covering a wide range of financial topics are presented. The current President of the Association is Sheridan Titman of the University of Texas at Austin. The 2013 Program Chair is Robert Stambaugh of the University of Pennsylvania. Duane Seppi of Carnegie Mellon University serves as Executive Secretary and Treasurer.
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Conference URL: http://hq.ssrn.com/Conference/Reports/conf_preliminary_program.cfm?conflink=AFA-2013-San-Diego
Weekly Top 5 Papers – December 28, 2012
1. Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement
by John Lott (University of Maryland Foundation) and William Landes (University of Chicago Law School)
2. Top Marginal Effective Tax Rates by State and by Source of Income, 2012 Tax Law vs. 2013 Scheduled Tax Law
by Gerald Prante (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics) and Austin John (Lynchburg College, School of Business and Economics)
3. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
by Daniel Solove (George Washington University Law School)
4. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities
by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School)
5. Multiple Victim Public Shootings
by John Lott (University of Maryland Foundation) and William Landes (University of Chicago Law School)