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Re-assessment of Acts of Piracy Under Contemporary International Law With Particular Reference to Activities of Somali Pirates
Get PDFIn this work, I present a range of guidance aimed at addressing maritime security which concerns Somali piracy and armed robbery against ships; this includes guidance to governments, ship owners and ship operators, shipmasters and crews on preventing and suppressing piracy and armed robbery against ships; investigation of offences and the use of armed personnel should be granted and enacted into law which are binding on all state parties internationally and regionally. These recommendations should promote the development of the international shipping industry, and bring peace to the Gulf of Aden
Venture Capital Contract Design: An Empirical Analysis of the Connection Between Bargaining Power and Venture Financing Contract Terms
Get PDFThis Article presents an empirical analysis of the connection between bargaining power and contract design using an original dataset of over 5,500 equity and debt venture financings from 2004–2015. Using the total supply of venture capital in the U.S. as a measure of relative bargaining power between entrepreneurs and investors, this Article finds that venture capital supply has a statistically significant relationship with price and non-price terms in both equity and debt financings. These results contradict one of three theoretical accounts of bargaining power and support the other two
Density, Affordable Housing and Social Inclusion: Modest Proposal for Cape Town
Get PDFWhat I would like to offer in this short article are some thoughts about ways Cape Town might benefit from lessons in the United States\u27 long and still continuing struggle with racially segregated housing and to do so by promoting strategies that are not only inclusionary in aim but also more environmentally sustainable if developed properly. I do this in part from the conviction that this is a benefit of any comparative legal scholarship - to suggest different ways of looking at problems. In this, I will particularly examine density-focused incentives. Indeed, incentive-based practices, it seems to me, might have some traction in the Cape Town/South African context, a suggestion that is supported, in fact, by the authors of the study largely discounting inclusionary housing in the South African context. Moreover, and to emphasize a point made above, density incentives, if executed carefully, have the advantage of being more environmentally responsible because they promote less sprawl. This is consistent with South Africa\u27s commitment to more sustainable land use practices
Breast IMRT Payment Policies: Effort to Increase Access to Quality Care
Get PDFThis investigation explores whether private insurance policies decrease access to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) as compared to Medicare for intact breast treatments at XYZ Cancer Center (XYZ). An examination of treatment charts was carried out on new intact breast patients at XYZ over a one-month period to compare the number of IMRT prescriptions as a function of Medicare or private insurance policies. A survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients at XYZ was made to discover how physician use of IMRT is affected by insurance policies. The review of breast cancer patient charts in the sample period showed private insurers permitted slightly fewer IMRT prescriptions than Medicare (3/18 vs. 4/14). This result was consistent with another finding that 3 IMRT prescriptions results when both IMRT and private insurance policies were independently applied to the 18 privately insured patients. The physician survey showed both Medicare and private insurer policies hinder their use of IMRT. New internal policies for IMRT use are recommended to replace insurer policies, which are anticipated to be lost with changes in healthcare payment models
2017 Annual Report for Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School of Law
Get PDFDigital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School of Law, or, simply, DC@GGULaw, is the institutional repository for the law school’s intellectual work and contributions to the field of law, produced by faculty, students, centers or conferences. This report highlights the major accomplishments of DC@GGULaw from May, 2016 through April, 2017
Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area
Get PDFAs a civil rights lawyer for almost 40 years, I have represented over 1,000 victims of police misconduct, thousands in class action employment and toxic tort cases, defendants in many serious criminal cases, and an array of high-profile public figures and professional athletes. During the course of this article, I will write about a selection of cases that are most meaningful and impactful to me. This article also addresses the development of my high-profile status related to my involvement with cases of public interest
A ’70’s Woman’s View of 40 Years in the Life of the Law
Get PDFIn reflecting on 45 years of the life of the law in the Bay Area, it was initially tempting to contrast the grim reality of the new Administration with a seemingly kinder and gentler time. But in truth those halcyon days of memory actually began with the landslide reelection of Richard Nixon, emblematic of a decade here that was scarred by unimaginable violence — from the Zebra killings and the Patty Hearst kidnapping to the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and gay rights icon Harvey Milk; from the Jonestown massacre of over 900 followers of the Unification Church to the gunning down of famed prisoners’ rights attorney Fay Stender. And only a few years later, the tragic ravages of AIDS would strike at the very heart of the progress made by the LGBTQI community.
I will dwell here on decidedly less dramatic, but nevertheless highly significant, forces that have transformed our profession, focusing primarily on: (1) the genesis and impact of the influx of women and racial minorities into the law, with surprisingly little to show for it at the top of the profession today; and (2) the exponential growth of commercial law firms, accelerating a troubling shift from law as a profession to law as an industry. (Let me note parenthetically that while the quality of life in the law may have declined pretty significantly over this period, the quality of my own personal life soared, what with my marriage to Marvin Stender, still the love of my life, and the birth of our cherished daughter, now a passionate civil rights lawyer with a heart as big as all outdoors.