Navigating Today's Remediation Cost Cap Market

The Remediation Cost Cap (RCC) market has experienced the boom-bust cycle common to many industries. This article discusses the current market conditions and insurance providers offering the product. The article asks you to determine whether you really need a RCC policy, and if so, provides helpful hints for managing the submission process. Finally, the article discusses the effects of contraction of RCC providers have had on the liability transfer industry.     

Politics and the attack on FDR's economists: from the grand alliance to the Cold War

US government economists in the later years of the administration of Franklin Roosevelt were urged to treat the Soviet Union as an ally, in the interests of winning World War II and establishing the basis for peaceful cooperation after the war. The onset of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of McCarthyism sullied the reputations of many of them, especially the two most prominent: Lauchlin Currie (chief economist in the White House) and Harry Dexter White (chief economist in the Treasury). Close examination of the parallels between these two seemingly disparate cases reveals that recent attempts to revive the charges are no more firmly based than those of the early 1950s.     

Northern Lights: From Swedish Realism to Sociology of Law

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with major books that have influenced the authors. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P. Heinz, and Roger Brownsword.