Yakima Herald-Republic articles from July 2000

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from July 2000

Conceptualizing corporations and kinship: comparative law and development theory in a Chinese perspective.
July 1, 2000... There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing.(1) --Friedrich Nietzsche Ideas and ideologies shape the subjective mental constructs that individuals use to interpret the world around them and make...

Russian privatization and corporate governance: what went wrong?
July 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION Rapid mass privatization of state-owned enterprises in formerly centrally planned economies hasn't turned out the way its creators hoped, in Russia or elsewhere. When Russian mass privatization began in the early 1990s, its...

Punitive damages and deterrence of efficiency-promoting analysis: a problem without a solution?(response to article by W. Kip Viscusi in this issue, p. 547)
July 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION Professor Viscusi addresses an important concern, namely, that economic efficiency can be undermined by the threat of punitive damages because of a well-executed, socially oriented risk or benefit-cost analysis.(1) While...

The costs and benefits of letting juries punish corporations: comment on Viscusi.(response to article by W. Kip Viscusi in this issue, p. 547)
July 1, 2000... On the basis of a new survey-administered mock juror experiment, Kip Viscusi suggests that a corporate defendant "[u]ndertaking even a sound risk analysis in line with that used by government regulators" actually increases the magnitude of...

Let them eat cake: diabetes and the Americans with Disabilities Act after Sutton.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] guidelines' directive that persons be judged in their uncorrected or unmitigated state runs directly counter to the individualized inquiry mandated by the ADA.... For...

The American Language of Rights.(Review)
July 1, 2000... THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS. By Richard A. Primus. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 262 pp. $54.95. In this new addition to the ongoing debate over "rights talk," Richard Primus uses a set of historical case...