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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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A Short Tribute to Larry Ribstein

I am personally and professionally saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, Larry E. Ribstein, Mildred van Voorhis Jones Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, a pre-eminent scholar in the field of LLCs and other unincorporated business associations, and the editor of our Corporate Law: Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Entities eJournal. We will miss his prodigious scholarship, his unflagging energy, his perceptive and provocative commentary on many subjects, and his iconoclastic style. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family, colleagues, and friends.

I am grateful that Professor Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, of Suffolk Law School, Larry’s co-author on the casebook, Unincorporated Business Entities, has agreed to take over as the editor of Larry’s journal.

Professor Lipshaw has proposed that we rename the journal as Corporate Law: LLCs, Close Corporations, Partnerships, and Other Private Enterprises. I think Larry would have approved this new name, which emphasizes LLCs and closely held firms more generally. He would be the first to tell you that no one ought to form a partnership any more, and indeed, few people do.

Please see below for the new journal title and description, and information on how to subscribe.

Bernie Black
Managing Editor, SSRN

CORPORATE LAW: LLCs, CLOSE CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, & OTHER PRIVATE ENTERPRISES eJOURNAL
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Editor: Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School

Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts related to LLCs, close corporations, partnerships, and other private enterprises. This includes the law, economics, history and policy of closely-held corporations and non-corporate firms, including partnerships, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, joint ventures, and similar entities both in the US and around the world. Specific topics include private law matters such as governance, fiduciary duties, formation, litigation, arbitration, choice of law, exit, dissolution, transfer, creditors’ rights, and limited liability. They also include public law matters such as bankruptcy, employment discrimination, securities regulation, competition law, and professional regulation. Articles may also focus on types of businesses or other relationships that commonly organize as limited liability companies, close corporations, partnerships or other unincorporated business entities, including venture capital, professional services, real estate, finance, family firms, domestic relationships and public-private enterprises.

Announcing 24th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference 2011 Abstracting eJournal on SSRN

In cooperation with the Institute of Global Finance at the University of New South Wales, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) 2011 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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National Research University Higher School of Economics Joins Economics Departments Research Papers

We are pleased to announce the National Research University Higher School of Economics has started an Economics Departments Research Papers series within the Economics Research Network (ERN).

NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) was established in 1992 with the purpose to promote economic and social reforms in Russia through education of a new generation of researchers and practitioners, production and dissemination of modern economic knowledge among Russian business and government. Nowadays the HSE is an absolute leader in the academic fields of economics among Russian universities. The strategic goal is to make the HSE the foremost centre for research and education, analysis, consulting and design in the field of social and economic science that would join the line of leading global research universities. Higher School of Economics Research Paper Series were established to provide our faculty with additional communication means with their colleagues, providing accessible way to distribute and discuss their research within the global research community.

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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.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UserSupport@SSRN.com.

SSRN delivered its 50,000,000 full-text download!

On 12/26/11 a major milestone occurred when Jan Bena, UBC Professor downloaded “Economic Nationalism in Mergers & Acquisitions“ by Isil Erel and Serdar Dinc. It was the 50 millionth full text PDF delivered from the SSRN eLibrary. Congratulate Jan if you see him because he will receive free subscriptions to all the SSRN eJournals for life!

The SSRN eLibrary currently has 375,000 paper abstracts from over 175,000 authors and has received 60,000 new submissions during the year. SSRN’s Citereader project with ITX Corp. has extracted 7.4 million references, 4.7 million citations, and 7.7 million footnotes from our 306,000 full text papers.

SSRN’s CEO, Gregg Gordon is headed to the AFA 2012 Chicago Meeting and will congratulate Jan personally. Thank you all for making this possible.

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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.

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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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Texas A&M University Mays Business School Joins MRN Business School Research Papers

We are pleased to announce the Texas A&M University Mays Business School has started an MRN Business School Research Papers series within the Management Research Network (MRN).

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
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The faculty members of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University are known for the quality and impact of their research in both the academic and business worlds. These same faculty bring their energy, curiosity and skills to the classroom each and every day. They contribute to the overall mission of Texas A&M to be a truly comprehensive university where students, researchers, and inventors bring scholarship and innovation to bear for the benefit of the community, the state and the nation. Mays is fully accredited by AACSB. Its degree programs include BBA, Masters of Science, Full-Time and Professional MBA, Executive MBA, PhD, and non-degree executive education programs

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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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