Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Issue Date
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(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 ...
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(Journal of Law and Economics, 1985)A recurring issue in the economic analysis of risk regulation agencies is whether these efforts have had any significant favorable effect on safety. Although the existence of such an effect would not necessarily imply that ...
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(Applied Economics, 1985)The supply of effort on the job has been virtually ignored as a component of the effective supply of labour. Typically, labour supply models assume the worker chooses the utility-maximizing number of hours to supply on the ...
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(The Hastings Law Journal, 1985)Most accredited law schools in the United States publish a student-edited law review containing scholarly writing about recent court decisions, unresolved issues of law, and other topics of interest to the legal community. ...
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(George Washington Law Review, 1985)The occasionally controversial consequences of the insanity defense, epitomized by John Hinckley's acquittal, have recently spawned a rash of legislative attempts to prevent similar outcomes in future cases. Three states ...
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(Journal of Labor Economics, 1986)Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement on crime rates, this study analyzes the existence of compensating differentials for criminal pursuits. By analyzing the ...
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(Southern Economic Journal, 1986)In situations of uncertain worker productivity and risk aversion, labor market contracts have a dual objective of promoting incentives and risk spreading. A trade-off between these objectives is present in single period ...
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(Law and Inequality, 1986)The breadth and variety of the topics discussed at the 1985 NAWJ Convention raise a troubling question: is there any longer a need for an association of women law judges? While a few of the discussions center around "women's ...
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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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(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986)For more than a decade, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been regulating the technology and work practices of employers. This governmental function is relatively new and is quite different ...
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(The RAND Journal of Economics, 1986)On the basis of data from a survey of almost 400 consumers, this article assesses whether consumer behavior is responsive to information about product hazards that is provided in response to regulation. We find that the ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1986)Members of the dominant faction of the current Supreme Court are apparently trying to have their cake and eat it, too. In some contexts, the Court uses constitutionally grounded notions of judicial restraint to deny ...
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(Rand Journal of Economics, 1986)Using a sample of manufacturing industries from 1973 to 1983, this article reexamines OSHA's impact on workplace safety. Evidence supporting OSHA's effectiveness is stronger than that presented in most previous studies ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 1986)When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first approved a field test of a bioengineered microbe, one EPA official remarked: "We're not expecting this to be the rutabaga that eats Pittsburgh.' But regulators cannot ...
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(Baylor Law Review, 1986)This Article joins the enormous and growing body of literature examining the need for reform of toxic tort remedies for cases of exposure to hazardous substances released into the environment. It is different from most ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 1986)What is true of women's writing is also true of women's jurisprudence. This article contends that modern men and women, in general, have distinctly different perspectives on the world and that, while the masculine vision ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1987)Prisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of action brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for violations of their constitutional rights caused by the overall condition of their confinement or by one ...
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 1987)In seeking to understand and interpret our written Constitution, judges and scholars have often focused on two related issues: how did the founding generation understand the Constitution they created, and to what extent ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1987)This essay has suggested, through review of two recent works, how toleration theory can and cannot be used to provide a viable alternative to both moribund liberal ideas and the increasingly successful program of the new ...
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(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1987)The automobile bumper standard issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 1982 was the product of a decade of policy debate.' This debate continued in the courts until ultimately the NHTSA ...