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Author: Veronica L. Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 41
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This paper focuses on why 'indicators' and evaluative questions about the external form of commercial law in transition economies are now so much in vogue. I trace the objectives and methods of a four different evaluative projects sponsored by the World Bank and USAID that are designed to assess and ultimately to rank the legal systems of transition economies. One obvious impetus for the evaluative turn in technical legal assistance is that there are so many legal systems in 'transition' and so much money is being spent on them. Another is that global bureaucracies such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the postindustrial states that sponsor them are predisposed to using evaluative techniques as forms of audit and control. The 'indicators' of commercial law now used in legal technical assistance projects are designed to allow ranking of legal systems according to their compliance with 'best-practice' models of commercial law in countries assumed to have well-established 'rule of law'. Significantly, the rankings are intended in many cases to guide allocative decision-making. This is the process that I call the 'law reform Olympics'
Author: Veronica L. Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 41
Book Description
This paper focuses on why 'indicators' and evaluative questions about the external form of commercial law in transition economies are now so much in vogue. I trace the objectives and methods of a four different evaluative projects sponsored by the World Bank and USAID that are designed to assess and ultimately to rank the legal systems of transition economies. One obvious impetus for the evaluative turn in technical legal assistance is that there are so many legal systems in 'transition' and so much money is being spent on them. Another is that global bureaucracies such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the postindustrial states that sponsor them are predisposed to using evaluative techniques as forms of audit and control. The 'indicators' of commercial law now used in legal technical assistance projects are designed to allow ranking of legal systems according to their compliance with 'best-practice' models of commercial law in countries assumed to have well-established 'rule of law'. Significantly, the rankings are intended in many cases to guide allocative decision-making. This is the process that I call the 'law reform Olympics'
Author: Ryan Gauthier Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317197267 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 221
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The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields extraordinary power, but there is no democratic basis for its authority. This study questions the supremacy of the IOC, arguing that there is a significant accountability deficit. Investigating the conduct of the IOC from an international legal perspective, the book moves beyond a critique of the IOC to explore potential avenues for reform, means of improving democratic procedures and increasing accountability. If the Olympics are to continue to be our most celebrated sporting event, those who organise them must be answerable to the citizens that they can potentially harm as well as benefit. Full of original insights into the inner workings of the IOC, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the Olympics, sport policy, sport management, sport mega-events, and the law.
Author: Heather Dichter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113570600X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 129
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In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms were initiated in response to the deep crises of legitimacy it faced because of the Salt Lake City doping scandal and ongoing accusations that it turned a blind eye to doping. This book assesses the implementation and effectiveness of those reforms ten years after. It draws upon the perspectives of Olympic scholars, Olympic athletes, and IOC members, including those who were directly involved in the reform process, and makes a number of recommendations about how the process of Olympic reform could be maintained and strengthened. As such, it provides an insightful and telling report card on the modern Olympic Movement in the first decade of the 21st century, and the presidency of Jacques Rogge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author: Timothy Lindsey Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0415378591 Category : Law reform Languages : en Pages : 449
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This informative book examines examples of law reform projects in post-socialist and post-authoritarian states in Asia, identifies common problems, and proposes analytical frameworks for understanding them.
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781985576407 Category : Languages : en Pages : 62
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Legislative efforts to reform the U.S. Olympic Committee : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, July 16, 2003.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 72
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781977605948 Category : Languages : en Pages : 56
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Reform of the United States Olympic Committee : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, June 24, 2003.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Olympics Languages : en Pages : 32
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781984962300 Category : Languages : en Pages : 62
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United States Olympic Committee (USOC) reform : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, February 13, 2003.
Author: Alexandre Miguel Mestre Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press ISBN: 9789067044400 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 256
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I am deeply honoured and very pleased indeed to have been invited to write the Foreword to this book, especially as the great success of and excitement generated by the Beijing Olympics last Summer is still fresh in all our minds! This is the first work on this important subject – the Olympic Games having been well described as ‘the greatest sporting show on earth’ – and the author, Alexandre Miguel Mestre, a distinguished Portuguese international sports lawyer, is to be warmly congratulated on producing it. The book covers the historical development of ‘Olympic Law’ and the current legal status of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as an NGO (non-g- ernmental organisation) under Public International Law, and its various constituent members and organs. The UN resolutions on the Olympic Truce of which the latest one is published in the book, are of a recommendatory nature (‘soft law’), but well illustrate the wide range of international legal instruments, which constitute the corpus of so-called ‘Olympic Law’, including the inter-State Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol – the famous five interconnected rings. The book also addresses some contemporary legal issues affecting the Olympic Movement, including eligibility criteria, dual participation in the Olympics and the Paralympics as well as environmental concerns and the protection of the so-called ‘Olympic Properties’ – in other words the valuable intellectual property rights of the IOC including TV rights – without which the Olympic Games could not be financed and staged.
Author: Veronica L. Taylor
Author: Veronica L. Taylor
Author: Ryan Gauthier
Author: Heather Dichter
Author: Timothy Lindsey
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Author: United States. Congress
Author: Alexandre Miguel Mestre