The collapse of the USSR and the emergence of newly independent states in the post-Soviet space brought about new geopolitical metamorphoses, which due to their dimensions cannot avoid researchers’ attention.Today the United States remains to be one of the most powerful states in the world. As...

India faces a shortage of qualified law teachers. According to the proposed legal education reform agenda, national law schools are due to open in each state and the standards at the existing 900+ law schools will undergo review. Indian law teachers will seek training on participatory learning...

This paper examines the relationship between graduate workplace competency standards and teaching effectiveness (competency) evidences used in colleges and universities. The cognitive, emotional and soft skills of students and academics, and teaching performance evaluation systems at two...

Setting an application deadline is an important decision for a law school admissions committee because the deadline partly determines the quantity and quality of applications that a law school receives. As such, information that would help an admissions committee set its deadline appropriately...

The master programmes in the field of public administration reveal two trends, and in spite of being contradictory they ensure both the convergence and specificity imposed by the continental/ national realities: A thematic focus on public management (MPM), public policies (MPP) or public affairs...

At a time when we are witnessing globalized competition to attract the best and brightest students into law and business schools, a qualitative investigation into legal teaching methods to diverse student cohorts is most relevant. This article makes a comparison across the unique educational...

The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the interactions between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in the form of stock returns for a sample of US firms over at two year period beginning in 2002. The work uses a set of disaggregated social responsibility indicators for...

This paper aims to outline the layman's understanding of technology within the financial services industry and its uses for compliance and monitoring with federal and state regulation, as an example of achieving financial stability through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protect...

This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and provides links to internet resources. Topics...