law and economics redux

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Murray
No case for Iraq attack say lawyers Michael White and Patrick Wintour Friday March 7, 2003 The Guardian Tony Blair last night faced fresh pressure to abandon the threat of war against Iraq when 16 eminent academic lawyers warned him that the White House doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence has

Re: Re: law and economics redux

2003-02-01 Thread knowknot
On 1/30/03, andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was clerking on the federal district court in Chicago, there was an insurance dispute . . . whether the insurer would pay under a director's and officer's liability policy for the defense of a firm that had pleaded guilty to

law and economics redux

2003-01-30 Thread Ian Murray
Hide and Seek By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman For corporations, reputation is everything. If they lose it, they stand to lose everything. See Andersen, Worldcom and Enron. If they can keep their dirty laundry out of the public eye, all the better. They do this by destroying

Re: law and economics redux

2003-01-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
When I was clerking on the federal district court in Chicago, there was an insurance dispute involving whether the insurer would pay under a director's and officer's liability policy for the defense of a firm that had pleaded guilty to a criminal antitrust violation and, as part of the settlement