Above the Law

Introduction In the book “Honest Work”, several authors deal with Fairness and Justice at work… and it made me thinking about Affirmative Action at work but also in other fields. I wanted to go a little bit further and wonder if this kind of practice is ethical and fair. Affirmative Action refers to policies that take factors including color, religion, sex, national origin… into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history

ADVISORY OPINIONS AND ORDERS RESERVATIONS TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE ADVISORY OPINION OF MAY 28th, 1951 LEYDE ! LEYDEN SOCIÉTÉ D'ÉDITIONS A. W. SIJTHOFF'S A. W. SIJTHOFF PUBLISHING COMPANY Le présent avis doit être cité comme suit : (( Réserves à ln Conventiolz sur le Génocide, ilvis conszdtntif : C. I . J . Recueil 1951, P. 1.5. 1) This Opinion should be cited as follows: "Keservations to the Convention o~z Genocide, Advisory Opinion :

back to the late 1700s (Harris, 2002; Shanahan & Wang, 2003). It has influenced the ethical decisionmaking in many facets of our lives including state and federal laws as well as professional codes of ethics. Harris stated that “utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive traditions of moral thought in our culture” (p. 119). Quinton (1973) suggested that “Utilitarianism can be understood as a movement for legal, political and social reform that flourished in the first half of the nineteenth

331–351, 2001. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 331 The Nature of the Firm – Static versus Developmental Interpretations KLAUS RATHE and ULRICH WITT Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Evolutionary Economics Unit, Kahlaische Str. 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany (E-mail: rathe@mpiew-jena.mpg.de; witt@mpiew-jena.mpg.de) Abstract. Different from the prevailing static perspective in the theory of the firm, a developmental approach focuses on processes of change

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et dans de nombreux pays européens. Comme nous l'avons déjà remarqué dans le document introductif, la spécificité juridique du Canada, par exemple, tient dans la co-existence de deux traditions juridiques : celle de la common law et celle du droit civiliste. La common law constitue le socle historique du droit de la plupart des pays de langue anglaise, à commencer par l'Angleterre et le Pays de Galles, la République d'Irlande, la majeure partie des états des Etats-Unis (hormis la Lousiane, qui a

in a bath tub. The level increases if rate of outflow is less than inflow. A perfect synchronization of rate of outflow with rate of inflow through a suitable control mechanism will ensure a minimum water level just enough to meet requirements. 2. Relationship with Productivity Productivity in manufacturing sector in India has declined at a rapid rate during 1960 to 1980. The rate of declined in engineering industries has been much higher than other industry, more so in the case of non-electrical

History of Mathematics This page intentionally left blank A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity Luke Hodgkin 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi

Economic Review ] (]]]]) ]]]–]]] Contents lists available at ScienceDirect European Economic Review journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/eer Cross-border mergers and strategic alliances Larry D. Qiu à School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong a r t i c l e in fo Article history: Received 5 February 2008 Accepted 30 December 2009 JEL classification: F12 F23 Keywords: Cross-border strategic alliances Cross-border mergers Export FDI Distribution