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Alone Together

Law and the Meanings of Marriage

By: Milton C. Regan Jr.

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Alone Together

Law and the Meanings of Marriage

By: Milton C. Regan Jr.

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists.

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Oxford University Press

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019534443X

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Confidence Games

Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

By: Tanina Rostain,Milton C. Regan, Jr.

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Confidence Games

Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

By: Tanina Rostain,Milton C. Regan, Jr.

The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich—including newly minted dot-com millionaires—to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and COBRA and were developed by such prestigious firms as KPMG and Ernst & Young. They brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from clients and bilked the U.S. Treasury of billions in revenues before the IRS and Justice Department stepped in with civil penalties and criminal prosecutions. In Confidence Games, Tanina Rostain and Milton Regan describe the rise and fall of the tax shelter industry during this period, offering a riveting account of the most serious episode of professional misconduct in the history of the American bar. Rostain and Regan describe a beleaguered IRS preoccupied by attacks from antitax and antigovernment politicians; heightened competition for professional services; the relaxation of tax practitioner norms against aggressive advice; and the creation of complex financial instruments that made abusive shelters harder to detect. By 2004, the tax shelter boom was over, leaving failed firms, disgraced professionals, and prison sentences in its wake. Rostain and Regan's cautionary tale remains highly relevant today, as lawyers and accountants continue to face intense competitive pressure and regulators still struggle to keep pace with accelerating financial risk and innovation.

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MIT Press

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0262323176

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9780262323178

Eat What You Kill

The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

By: Milton C Regan

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Eat What You Kill

The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

By: Milton C Regan

A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressure-cooker environment." -Nancy Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center "Eat What You Kill is gripping and well written. . . . It weaves in academic commentary and understanding of professional ethics issues in a way that makes it accessible to everyone." -Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego Law School He had it all, and then he lost it. But why did he do it, risking everything-wealth, success, livelihood, freedom, and the security of family? Eat What You Kill is the story of John Gellene, a rising star and bankruptcy partner at one of Wall Street's most venerable law firms. But when Gellene became entangled in a web of conflicting corporate and legal interests involving one of his clients, he was eventually charged with making false statements, indicted, found guilty of a federal crime, and sentenced to prison. Milton C. Regan Jr. uses Gellene's case to prove that such conflicting interests are now disturbingly commonplace in the world of American corporate finance. Combining a journalist's eye with sharp psychological insight, Regan spins Gellene's story into a gripping drama of fundamental tensions in modern-day corporate practice and describes in perfect miniature the inexorable confluence of the interests of American corporations and their legal counselors. This confluence may seem natural enough, but because these law firms serve many masters-corporations, venture capitalists, shareholder groups-it has paradoxically led to deep, pervasive conflicts of interest. Eat What You Kill gives us the story of a man trapped in this labyrinth, and reveals the individual and systemic factors that contributed to Gellene's demise.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472025910

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9780472025916

Alone Together

Law and the Meanings of Marriage

By: Milton C. Regan

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Law and the Meanings of Marriage

By: Milton C. Regan

How can we draw on the liberating aspects of individualism in marriage without denying the importance of connection? How might we benefit from recognizing the importance of sharing and sacrifice in marriage without reinforcing the traditional view that women should subordinate their interests to those of other family members? In addressing these questions, Regan's analysis is informed by communitarian and liberal theory, as well as by feminist perspectives on marriage and family life.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019511003X

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Eat What You Kill

The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

By: Milton C Regan

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The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

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Confidence Games

Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

By: Tanina Rostain,Milton C. Regan, Jr.

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Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

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MIT Press

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Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy

By: Milton C. Regan Jr.

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Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy

By: Milton C. Regan Jr.

In recent years, family law has catapulted from the shadows to the spotlight in public consciousness. The issues that family law addresses--divorce, custody, single parenthood, same-sex marriage, prenuptial contracts, unmarried cohabitation, alternative families--have attracted enormous public attention and have become the subject of celebrated legal disputes, newspaper and magazine articles, television shows and movies, and Presidential campaigns. The modern family serves as a highly-charged symbol of the conflicts that arise within an American culture that professes devotion both to individual rights and family obligations. Family law has shown increasing willingness in the last two decades to resolve these conflicts in favor of individual rights. It has placed heightened emphasis on the autonomy of individual family members, exhibiting greater suspicion of the family as a constraint on self-development. This has translated into a waning influence for the moral vision of family life that assigns rights and obligations to those with formal legal identities such as spouses, parents, or children--a vision expressed in the legal model of status. In its stead has entered the alternative vision of contract, which enables individuals themselves to establish the terms of their relationships, with regulation limited to cases of imminent harm. This vision strives to free individuals from the fetters of communal expectations so that they can pursue genuine intimacy with others. In this timely work, Regan delves into recent legal cases, social theory, and family history to challenge the assumption that contract should serve as the governing principle of family law. The devaluation of status, he claims, puts us at risk of losing the resonance of the family as a cultural model of the responsibilities that flow from relationships with others. In a postmodern world marked by fragmentation of both identity and personal relationships, intimate commitment may rest more than ever on the ability of culture to orient the individual within shared norms of conduct. The challenge therefore is to construct a new model of status--shorn of sexist assumptions, yet based on commitment and responsibility--that will preserve the distinctive character of family law as a narrative about self and other in intimate relationship.

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NYU Press

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0814774571

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Alone Together

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Eat What You Kill

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Alone Together

Alone Together

Eat What You Kill

Eat What You Kill

Confidence Games

Confidence Games

Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy

Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy

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