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    • Edelman, Paul H. (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 ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (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 ...
    • Clayton, Ellen W.; Hazel, J.W.; et, al. (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 ...
    • Clayton, Ellen W.; Hazel, James W.; et al. (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 ...
    • Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynn A., 1957- (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 ...
    • Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (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 ...
    • Bressman, Lisa Schultz (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 ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Zeckhauser, Richard (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 ...
    • Hurder, Alex J. (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 ...
    • Rossi, Jim, 1965-; Rose-Ackerman, Susan (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 ...
    • Edelman, Paul H.; Cheng, Edward K.; Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (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 ...
    • Serkin, Christopher (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 ...
    • Stack, Kevin M. (Colorado Law Review, 2004)
      There is a peculiar point of agreement between prominent defenders of originalist and dynamic interpretive methods, that their preferred interpretive approach applies not just to statutes or to the Constitution, but to ...
    • Hans, G.S. (Clinical Law Review, 2019)
      The demographics of clinical law faculties matter. As Professor Jon Dubin persuasively argued nearly twenty years ago in his article Faculty Diversity as a Clinical Legal Education Imperative, clinical faculty of color ...
    • Broughman, Brian; Boone, Audra; Macias, Antonio J. (Journal of Law & Economics, 2020)
      The emergence of appraisal arbitrage as an investment strategy has focused attention on the role of judicial appraisal in mergers and acquisitions deals. Our study-Boone, Broughman, and Macias (2019)-contributes to this ...
    • Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2010)
      Class action lawyers are some of the most frequently derided players in our system of civil litigation. It is often asserted that class action lawyers take too much from class judgments as fees, that class actions are ...
    • Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Cox, James D., 1943-; Bai, Lynn (Wisconsin Law Review, 2009)
      Federal appellate courts have promulgated divergent legal standards for pleading fraud in securities fraud class actions after the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court issued ...
    • Broughman, Brian; Fried, Jesse M. (Harvard Business Law Review, 2020)
      Black & Gilson (1998) argue that an IPO-welcoming stock market stimulates venture deals by enabling VCs to give founders a valuable "call option on control." We study 18,000 startups to investigate the value of this option. ...
    • Broughman, Brian (Harvard Business Law Review, 2020)
      Black & Gilson (1998) argue that an IPO-welcoming stock market stimulates venture deals by enabling VCs to give founders a valuable "call option on control." We study 18,000 startups to investigate the value of this option. ...
    • Skiba, Paige Marta; Tobacman, Jeremy (Journal of Law and Economics, 2019)
      An estimated ten million American households borrow on payday loans each year. Despite the prevalence of these loans, little is known about the effects of access to this form of short-term, high-cost credit. We match ...