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THE ASTUTE MIXTURE OF FULL-TIME PROFESSIONALISM WITH A SELF-CONFIDENT WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION IS THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE BRITISH UNIONS, NOT A UNIFORM IMPOSITION OF BALLOTS FOR THEIR OWN SAKE. CONSTANT UNION ELECTIONEERING WOULD POLITICIZE THE ORGANIZATIONS EVEN MORE AND UNDERMINE THE STABILITY THAT UNION OFFICALS NEED TO ESTABLISH THEIR MORAL AUTHORITY.

Richard Nixon fundamentally changed the prison system in America when he launched the "War on Drugs" in 1969, leading to a series of federal laws imposing harsh mandatory sentences on drug offenders. In an attempt to shield children from drugs, New Jersey followed other states in passing a "drug-free school zone" statute. The statute imposed harsh mandatory minimum sentences for all drug offenders arrested within 1,000 feet of schools, regardless of whether children were involved. This law has had a disparate impact on minorities in New Jersey, who disproportionately populate urban communities that happen to be located within all-encompassing drug-free school zones. This Note analyzes the effect of the statutes passed during the War on Drugs, and argues that New Jersey must modify its drug-free school zone statute to create smaller zones, require a nexus to the school, and focus on drug dealers most likely to target children.

In a setting of globalized financial capitalism an issue which has received little attention to date is not whether national models of corporate governance are converging or diverging but rather the channels by which market and regulatory forces interact to promote such convergence or divergence. I herein propose the institutional investor/interlocked directorate pipeline as one such channel of potential convergence. In theory, institutional investors impart tacit knowledge to a select group of corporations by means of engagement activities; such knowledge and influence can subsequently be distributed to a wider corporate population by means of interlocked directorates originating from the engaged corporations. An analysis of the distribution of these pipelines across Canada demonstrates that such pipelines can penetrate geopolitical and industrial boundaries and interact with regulatory forces in shaping models of corporate governance. The wide distribution of such pipelines effectively transforms tacit knowledge originally conveyed by institutional investors to a geographically limited sample of corporations into explicit knowledge accessible across the country.

ABSTRACTComparative corporate governance has long focused on national models of corporate governance with particular attention paid to the balance of influence between divergent path dependence and convergent global market forces. Within this debate, the Canadian model of corporate governance has received little attention and has long been assumed to be an extension of the U.S. model. An analysis of the corporate geography of Canada demonstrates that the path‐dependent forces of Canada's resource‐dependent economic development remain a principal determinant in contemporary corporate Canada. Continued resource dependence in combination with a system of asymmetric federalism has led to a distinctively multi‐jurisdictional model of corporate governance. As corporate interests are provincially distinct because of the heterogeneous distribution of natural resources and markets across Canada, this model may lead to provincial lock‐in and an associated degree of managerial entrenchment.

The interests of children have often been neglected in public decision-making, in response the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child requires those children's interests to be made a 'primary consideration' decisions concerning them. Recent developments in case law and legislation have ensured that this duty is now an established requirement in a wide range of policy areas. Nonetheless, as the breadth of the duty has expanded, so uncertainty as to its precise basis and flexibility as to its requirements has threatened to undermine its utility. The duty has the potential to improve decision-making for children but only if focus is maintained on the importance of making children's interests visible in a system designed for adults.