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    • Clayton, Ellen Wright (Villanova Law Review, 2006)
      The question about the privacy of medical information can be stated simply: To what extent can and should patients control what the medical record contains and who has access to it and for what purposes? Patients often ...
    • Skiba, Paige Marta; Carter, Susan Payne (Review of Banking & Financial Law, 2012)
      Pawnbroking is the oldest source of credit. There is growing public interest in day-to-day pawnbroking operations, as evidenced by the popularity of reality shows such as “Pawn Stars” and “Hardcore Pawn.” Television viewers’ ...
    • Skiba, Paige Marta; Agarwal, Sumit; Tobacman, Jeremy (American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009)
      Using a unique dataset matched at the individual level from two administrative sources, we examine household choices between liabilities and assess the informational content of prime and subprime credit scores in the ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Minnesota Law Review, 2002)
      This article suggests that the Supreme Court's decision in Kyllo v. United States may not be as protective of the home as it first appears. Kyllo held that use of a thermal imager to detect heat sources inside the home is ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (The Journal of Legal Studies, 1990)
      The liability crisis of the mid-1980s has led to an extensive reexamination of the liability system. A number of explanations have been offered for the substantial increase in insurance premiums and, in some cases, a decline ...
    • Cheng, Edward K. (Virginia Law Review, 9/24/2007)
      The use of evidentiary rules to achieve substantive goals strikes me as a Faustian bargain, and, given Bierschbach and Stein's acknowledgedly tentative position, I hope to dissuade them of the virtues of the practice. My ...
    • Ruhl, J.B.; Biber, Eric (Duke Law Journal, 2014)
      Two decades ago, Professor Richard Epstein fired a shot at the administrative state that has gone largely unanswered in legal scholarship. His target was the “permit power,” under which legislatures prohibit a specified ...
    • Maroney, Terry A. (California Law Review, 2011)
      In contemporary Western jurisprudence it is never appropriate for emotion - anger, love, hatred, sadness, disgust, fear, joy - to affect judicial decision-making. A good judge should feel no emotion; if she does, she puts ...
    • Sherry, Suzanna (Constitutional Commentary, 1985)
      Being a Supreme Court justice must have been more fun in the eighteenth century than it is today. The caseload was lighter, and the Court was a social as well as a political center., The justices also apparently felt ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Regulation, 1984)
      The environmental rationale for a detergent phosphate ban is straightforward enough. Phosphates are pollutants because, ironically enough, they are biodegradable. In fact, living things thrive on them. Excessive phosphate ...
    • Sherry, Suzanna; Edelman, Paul H. (California Law Review, 2002)
      In this essay, Professors Edelman and Sherry explain the mathematics behind the allocation of congressional seats to each state, and survey the different methods of allocation that Congress has used over the years. Using ...
    • Gervais, Daniel; Frankel, Susy (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2013)
      Plain packaging of cigarettes as a way of reducing tobacco consumption and its related health costs and effects raises a number of international trade law issues. The plain packaging measures adopted in Australia impose ...
    • Gervais, Daniel J. (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2013)
      The issue of plain packaging is at the very core of the intersection between trade law, intellectual property and public health. Unlike the issue of export of generic pharmaceuticals, which was addressed in the World Trade ...
    • King, Nancy J., 1958- (Duquesne Law Review, 2013)
      This essay addresses the growing use and enforcement of terms in plea agreements by which a defendant waives his right to attack his plea agreement on the basis of constitutionally deficient representation during negotiations ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (Southwestern Law Journal, 1991)
      These days, if you want to stir up high emotions in Congress, statehouses, corporate boardrooms or citizen group meetings, mention the word Superfund. That alias for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, ...
    • Sherry, Suzanna (Constitutional Commentary, 1999)
      This article is part of a symposium on constitutional law, the theme of which is to explore real constitutional issues deriving from specific cases within a fictional exercise. These cases, all taken from the historical ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher (Cato Supreme Court Review, 2021)
      What is the proper role of the police? That question has been at the forefront of debates about policing for quite some time, but especially in the past year. One answer, spurred by countless news stories about black people ...
    • Rose, Amanda M.; LeBlanc, Larry J.; Rose (Florida Law Review, 2013)
      Multiple different securities law enforcers can pursue U.S. public companies for the same misconduct. These enforcers include a variety of federal agencies, class action attorneys, and derivative litigation attorneys, as ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher (Actual Problems of Economics and Law, 2019)
      Databases are full of personal information that law enforcement might find useful. Government access to these databases can be divided into five categories: suspect-driven; profile-driven; event-driven; program-driven and ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Viscusi, W. Kip (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010)
      Economic research has developed estimates of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL) on dimensions such as individual age, income, immigrant status, and the nature of the risk exposure. This paper examines ...