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St. Thomas University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The St. Thomas University School of Law Legal Research Paper Series focuses on interdisciplinary legal scholarship from members of the Law Faculty. Located in Miami Gardens, Florida, St. Thomas University is a Catholic University that emphasizes lifelong learning and scholarship, under Catholic auspices. The published eJournal will include Faculty papers selected for publication, including but not limited to works on international law, human rights, tax law, constitutional law, health law, education law, criminal law, gender studies, equal rights, canon law, and environmental law.

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Western New England University Upgrades Its Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce Western New England University School of Law has upgraded its basic series to a full series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies.

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series journal contains abstracts and research papers of the Western New England University School of Law faculty. Founded in 1919 as part of the Springfield Division of Northeastern University and incorporated as part of Western New England University in 1951, the School of Law has grown and matured into an institution known for providing a legal education that emphasizes a blending of theoretical and practical learning.

Announcing 4 New MRN Organizational Behavior Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce four new MRN Organizational Behavior Research Network (ORG) Subject Matter eJournals:
Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Interorganizational Networks & Organizational Behavior eJournal;
Public Sector Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal; and
Strategy & Organizational Behavior eJournal.

INNOVATION & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on innovation and organizational behavior. The research in the eJournal includes both historical and contemporary research pertaining to innovation and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature and may address any of the phases of the innovation process, including development, adoption, resistance, implementation, and diffusion. The purpose of the eJournal is to enhance understanding of how and why individuals acting in organizations influence innovation.

INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on interorganizational networks and organizational behavior. Submitted papers may be conceptual or empirical in nature. The purpose of this eJournal is to enhance understanding of the impact of interorganizational network structures on the individuals who work within those structures as well as the consequences of the actions taken by those individuals on organizational outcomes and effectiveness. Interorganizational networks can support or constrain individual behavior in organizations and may be viewed from multiple perspectives including, but not limited to, theories related to resource dependence and access, trust, power and control, and signaling.

PUBLIC SECTOR STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the public sector, including nonprofit organizations, governments and governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modes of strategy, execution of strategy, and evaluation of the results of strategic actions.

STRATEGY & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on competitive strategy in relation to organizational behavior within the for-profit sector.

NBER Announces Free Access to Papers Older than Three Years

SSRN partners with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to provide access to their research and we are happy to share the NBER’s recent announcement below.

Effective January 1, 2012, all NBER working papers that were distributed prior to a three year “moving wall” are available for open access on the NBER website. They are also available at no charge through SSRN.

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UNSW Upgrades to Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies Series

We are pleased to announce that University of New South Wales Faculty of Law has upgraded from a Partners in Publishing relationship to a full series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FACULTY OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series (UNSWLRS) provides a forum for Faculty members, including academics, visiting fellows and postgraduate researchers to disseminate in-progress research, conference papers, book chapters, government submissions and published peer-reviewed articles. The papers included in the series are equally diverse, with topics ranging from distributed denial of service attacks to taxation, the rule of law to non-government organisations, high seas fisheries and law school mentoring programs.

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

2. Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
by Jacopo Ponticelli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Economics Department) and Hans-Joachim Voth (Economics Department – UPF and CREI)

3. Kyoto and the COPs: Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead
by Rafael Leal-Arcas (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law)

4. Sustainable Professionalism
by Trevor C. W. Farrow (Osgoode Hall Law School – York University)

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

1. Priority Among Competing Patent Applicants Under the American Invents Act
by Donald Chisum

2. How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution
by David Kopel (Independence Institute)

3. Originalism and Sex Discrimination
by Steven Calabresi (Northwestern University – School of Law) and Julia Rickert (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)

4. Out of the Dark: Hedge Fund Reporting Biases and Commercial Databases
by Adam Aiken (Quinnipiac University) and Christopher Clifford (University of Kentucky) Jesse Ellis (University of Alabama – Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies)

5. A Degree of Practical Wisdom: The Ratio of Educational Debt to Income as a Basic Measurement of Law School Graduates’ Economic Viability
by Jim Chen (University of Louisville – Louis D. Brandeis School of Law)

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University of Eastern Finland Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce the University of Eastern Finland has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND DEPARTMENT OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Department of Law is an active continuously developing academic community, known for its interdisciplinary research profile and active research cooperation. The focus areas for developing the Department’s research activities include transnational law (especially Russian and European Law), empirical legal studies and multidisciplinary environmental law. The University of Eastern Finland Department of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series covers research papers from all subject areas by members of the UEF Department of Law (and doctoral students and visiting scholars).

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Loyola University New Orleans Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce Loyola University New Orleans has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper Series in Legal Studies contains the recent scholarship of the College’s faculty. Established in 1914 in the Jesuit tradition of academic rigor, pursuit of justice, and service to others, the College of Law educates future members of the Bar to be skilled advocates and sensitive counselors-at-law who are committed to ethical norms in pursuit of dignity for all. The College of Law faculty is a community of scholars committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship, and the content of this Research Paper Series will reflect their broad and diverse areas of interest.

Announcing the CELS 2011: 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Online Proceedings

In cooperation with the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is pleased to announce the CELS 2011 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies online proceedings. The proceedings are available to all users at no charge and contain abstracts of publicly available papers to be presented at the conference with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

CELS 2011: 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
The CELS 2011 conference is sponsored by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern Law, and the American Bar Foundation. The conference features original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields.

You can browse all abstracts for publicly available papers to be presented at CELS 2011 in the SSRN database at:
http://www.ssrn.com/link/CELS-2011.html.

You may also visit the CELS 2011 conference website at:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/conferences/cels-2011.

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Announcing Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI – AFFI Abstracting eJournal

In cooperation with EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute) and AFFI (French Finance Association), the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Paris December 2011 Finance 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 traditional annual Paris December International Finance Meeting is organized by EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute, which develops European stock exchange databases that are useful to finance researchers) and AFFI (French Finance Association, a network of researchers, teachers and practitioners specialized in financial management), and jointly sponsored by the CDC Institute for Economic Research, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and Fondation Banque de France pour la Recherche en Economie Monetaire, Financiere et Bancaire.

This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be distributed in subject-specific eJournals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the eJournals of our sister networks.

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Conference URL (information & registration): http://www.eurofidai.org/december2011.html

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Drake University Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies

We are pleased to announce Drake University Law School has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series, within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES SERIES
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The Drake University Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series features legal scholarship in all subject areas from faculty members, visiting scholars, affiliates and students of Drake University Law School. Founded in 1865, the Law School is one of the 25 oldest law schools in the United States. It aims to provide an exceptional learning environment that integrates legal theory and the development of professional skills; promotes critical thinking and effective problem solving; examines international perspectives; and instills the ideals of ethics and professionalism. The Law School is also the home of nationally-renowned centers in agricultural law, children’s rights, constitutional law, intellectual property law and legislative practice.

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De Nederlandsche Bank Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce De Nederlandsche Bank has started an ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherlands Bank) is the central bank and financial sector supervisor in the Netherlands. DNB is also responsible for promoting robust and efficient payment systems. DNB Working Papers cover research on the five themes of the DNB research programme: monetary policy and price stability, central bank transparency and central bank communication, financial stability and macro-prudential supervision, micro-prudential supervision and behaviour of financial institutions, and financial literacy and behaviour of households and firms. Views and conclusions expressed in working papers are the responsibility of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of DNB or the Eurosystem.

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Announcing Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN

In cooperation with the National University of Singapore Saw Centre for Financial Studies, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the Fifth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2011. This abstracting 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 Singapore International Conference on Finance is an annual global conference designed to bring together a select group of scholars to discuss their research results.

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