Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Title
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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2020)Mental states matter. Consequently, we and colleagues designed and executed a brain-imaging experiment attempting to detect-for the first time-differences between mental states relevant to criminal law. Imagine you've just ...
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(Wake Forest Law Review, 2000)Over the past decade, executive compensation has become a controversial topic. Increasingly, corporate boards of directors are confronted by angry shareholder groups over the size and composition of executive pay packages. ...
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The Determinants of the Disposition of Product Liability Claims and Compensation for Bodily Injury (The Journal of Legal Studies, 1986)The frequency and severity of products liability lawsuits have become a matter of increasing importance and concern to the public at large and to American business in particular. The number of product liability cases filed ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2011)The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This Article proposes a new liability ...
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(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)This Article examines the interaction between direct regulation of pharmaceuticals under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and the indirect regulation of pharmaceuticals provided by common law tort incentives. ...
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(Ohio State Law Journal, 1998)As the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals become an increasingly important part of American legal discourse, the debate concerning adjudication theories of the circuit courts gain particular relevance. Whereas, ...
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 1997)The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an early identification and response model of malpractice prevention that is designed to achieve these objectives. The article begins with a rationale for the ...
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(Childhood Obesity, 2020)To develop and test brief nutrition and physical activity screening questions for children ages 2–11 years that could be used as a pragmatic screening tool to tailor counseling, track behavior change, and improve population ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 2004)In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lawrence Sirovich introduced two novel mathematical techniques to study patterns in recent Supreme Court decisions. One of these methods, information ...
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(The Journal of Legal Studies, 1991)Examination of a variety of sources of statistics indicates that the product liability crisis is real, and it is not simply imagined or contrived by the insurance industry. Litigation in the product liability area has ...
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(PLoS One, 2021)Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is marketed as a tool to uncover ancestry and kin. Recent studies of actual and potential users have demonstrated that individuals’ responses to the use of these tests for these purposes ...
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(PLoS One, 2021)Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is marketed as a tool to uncover ancestry and kin. Recent studies of actual and potential users have demonstrated that individuals’ responses to the use of these tests for these purposes ...
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(Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001)One of the most pressing questions facing both corporate scholars and businesspeople today is how corporate directors can be made accountable. Before addressing this issue, however, it seems important to consider two ...
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(Wake Forest Law Review, 2003)This essay observes that, in the face of corporate scandals of the last few years, a number of prominent advocates for shareholder primacy have retreated to the position that directors and officers should attempt to maximize ...
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(Cornell Law Review, 2002)The Supreme Court's recent reversal of the D.C. Circuit's decision in "Whitman v. American Trucking Ass'ns" brings to center stage the critical question for disciplining delegation of lawmaking authority to administrative ...
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(Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2008)Two developments pose dilemmas for well established discounting techniques: (1) The extremely long time horizons associated with recently prominent environmental policy problems, such as climate change and nuclear waste ...
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(Loyola Law Review, 2010)There are no rules of procedure for legal negotiation. Negotiators have to make them up. The procedures for legal negotiation have to fit the context of each unique case. Moreover, they have to be acceptable to the other ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2000)Constitutional takings protections, such as those in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, create a potential for state liability for changes in regulatory policy by governments. This Article critiques ...
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(Journal of Legal Analysis, 2021)As consolidated multidistrict litigation has come to dominate the federal civil docket, the problem of how to divide attorney fees among participating firms has become the source of frequent and protracted litigation. For ...
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(Southern California Law Review, 2019)For the past century, property rights-and in particular development rights-have been circumscribed and largely defined by comprehensive local land use regulations. As any student of land use knows, zoning across the country ...