I. Introduction
President Clinton enacted “welfare reform” when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), which abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and created Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). PRWORA greatly scaled back the extent of federal welfare assistance and passed… Read More »
Benjamin Means
- University of South Carolina School of Law
In a recent article published by the Georgetown Law Journal, I criticize the inflexibility of existing law concerning claims of minority shareholder oppression in close corporations. A more satisfactory approach, I contend, would encourage courts to vary their level of scrutiny, requiring detailed justification from controlling shareholders when the minority… Read More »
A risk governance paradigm provides the best theoretical framework for understanding both the health care system and health law. By “risk governance,” I mean a set of practices organized around principles of risk allocation, management, and distribution. Largely through the structures of managed care, the discourse of risk and insurance… Read More »