Often, from the standpoints of legal expertise, the state and business interests, the idea of modernizing the law through the enactment of systematic legal codes has very powerful appeal. But ...

In January, FASB released the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC or codification). The codification simplifies the classification of accounting standards by restructuring all authoritative ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB, is a private, independent organization that since 1973 has been given the authority by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to establish ...

abstract. What is a textualist to do when there are two texts, each with a colorable claim to legitimacy? This question arises every time the text of a codified statute that has been enacted into ...

ONE document that would cover all the past and present ordinances is being pushed in Benguet capital town of La Trinidad. Vice Mayor Roderick Awingan in his presentation on Tuesday, December 10, said ...

eds. Philip Scholfield and Jonathan Harris (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998), pp. lviii, 450. This volume contains three separate but related works: Papers relative to Codification and Public ...

Every now and then, and with varying levels of intensity, the debate regarding the position of customary bodies and laws flares up afresh in highland North-east India. Through the Sixth Schedule and a ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board on Wednesday voted to move ahead with plans for more than 30 tweaks to the Accounting Standards Codification, the source of authoritative U.S. generally ...

The horizontal dimension is precisely codification: collecting (stuff), and personalization, i.e. connecting (people). Their points are pretty straightforward and relatively unexceptionable to this ...