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Regulating Land Based Casinos: Policies, Procedures, and Economics
Ngai Pindell and Anthony Cabot
Once restricted to exotic locations like Las Vegas, Macau, and Monte Carlo, casinos are now operating in many cities nationally and internationally from the Maryland waterfront to Ho Chi Minh City. This expansion of the gaming industry, both geographically and economically, raises new and important policy questions about the role of government in gaming regulation, the obligations and opportunities for casinos, and public support for gambling and gaming tax revenue. The contributors to this book have decades of experience in gaming regulation and business and are optimistic about the future of gaming and casinos. Each author critically engages the subject and offers his or her insight into what works and what does not in the gaming business and gaming regulation. Whether a jurisdiction is considering legalizing gaming or deciding how to regulate an existing gaming industry, it should engage in a careful cost-benefit analysis informed by available data and the jurisdiction’s particular public policy goals.
Each chapter in this book considers a key component of this process. The chapters collect and analyze gaming research from a wide variety of disciplines, including law, business, social sciences, economics, and tax to explain the many approaches a jurisdiction might take to identify and address important policy goals and to suggest emerging issues that require additional research and data. The chapters also incorporate extensive industry experience and examples to investigate the effects of different regulatory practices on the gaming industry, industry stakeholders, and the public.
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Les Intraduisibles en droit civil
Alexandra Popovici, Smith Lionel, and Régine Tremblay
En choisissant les « Intraduisibles » comme thème pour ses Ateliers de droit civil 2010-2012, le Centre Paul-André Crépeau de droit privé et comparé de l’Université McGill a regroupé plusieurs chercheurs afin qu’ils abordent un thème essentiel en droit comparé, la difficulté de passer d’un système juridique à un autre sans banaliser les différences qui les habitent. Ainsi, Kirsten Anker, Jimena Andino Dorato, Richard Hyland, Christine Morin, Alexandra Popovici, Eric Reiter, Giorgio Resta, Anne Sanders et Ruth Sefton-Green ont attaqué les obstacles juridiques et linguistiques auxquels fait face tout comparatiste, l’impossible ou plutôt la difficile traduction de certaines notions qui semblent pourtant indispensables à un système donné.
Their papers all start from a concept that is either untranslateable itself, or that reveals untranslateable juridical underpinnings: the fondement, the last will, the fiducie, remedies, personality rights (not once but twice!), marriage contracts, fault, and aboriginal rights. Each paper explores the tension between the universality of concepts, and the specificities of language and of legal traditions. Their original contributions shed new light on fundamental private law. This collection will be of interest as much to translators as to comparative lawyers, but it will especially delight wordsmiths and logophiles.
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Canadian Securities Regulation, 5th ed.
Kathleen Doyle Rockwell, David Johnston, and Cristie Ford
In one of Canada's foremost treatises on the subject, experts David Johnston, Kathleen Doyle Rockwell and Cristie Ford provide an authoritative exploration of the Canadian securities system, its historical underpinnings and the practical ramifications of its administration and enforcement.
[From Canadian Securities Regulation, 5th Edition | LexisNexis Canada]
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The Experience of Tragic Judgment
Julen Etxabe
Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be found, as many would suppose, in an impersonal set of procedures with which all participants could be treated as having rationally agreed. The very idea of such a neutral system is an illusion. Rather, what is needed, Julen Etxabe argues in this book, is a heightened awareness of the difficulty of judgment. The Experience of Tragic Judgments draws upon Sophocles’ play Antigone in order to consider this difficulty and the virtues that attend its acknowledgment. Based on the transformative experience that the audience undergoes in engaging with this play what is proposed is a reconceptualization of judgment: not as it is generally thought to occur in a single isolated moment, like the falling of an axe, but rather as an experience that develops in and through space and time.
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The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement, and Neuroscience
Andrew Floyer Acland, Carrie L. MacLeod, and Michelle Lebaron
The Choreography of Resolution explores how conflict, movement and neuroscience are all intertwined and the effects each factor plays in resolution.
[From The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement, and Neuroscience]
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Canadian Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials
Greg Hagen, Cameron Hutchison, David Lametti, Graham Reynolds, Teresa Scassa, and Margaret Ann Wilkinson
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Market-Based Instruments: National Experiences in Environmental Sustainability, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, Volume XIII
Larry Kreiser, David G. Duff, Janet E. Milne, and Hope Ashiabor
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