Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Issue Date
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(Michigan Law Review, 1989-05)Mark Tushnet's new book ("Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law") is an example of how too many layers of theoretical detachment can obscure truly innovative scholarship. His fervent insistence ...
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(The University of Chicago Law Review, 1990)There is currently a dispute raging about the meaning of the Eleventh Amendment, which protects states from suits in federal court. The language of that amendment appears to deny federal jurisdiction only over suits brought ...
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(Law & Inequality, 1990)Many of you have seen or heard in the media much discussion about last term's employment discrimination cases. Indeed, last term there was an extraordinary amount of activity in the Supreme Court on employment discrimination. ...
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(Journal of Political Economy, 1990)This paper uses a national survey of 3,119 individuals to examine the effect of lung cancer risk perceptions on smoking activity. Both smokers and nonsmokers greatly overestimate the lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking, ...
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(Journal of Law and Economicshttp://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/jle.html, 1990)The EPA water pollution regulations-the focus of this study represent an interesting departure from past patterns of regulatory failure. First, the nature of the regulations-discharge limits-relates directly to the policy ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1990)When organizing this Symposium on the topic of "Law, Literature, and Social Change," we asked whether current trends in literature and in literary, social, and legal theory actually could play a role in bringing about ...
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(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 ...
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(Oregon Law Review, 1990)The article uses the provisions of the Alternative Minimum Tax in an attempt to predict the course of future tax reform.
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(Georgetown Law Journal, 1990)This note argues that to deter negligent behavior adequately, tortfeasors should be held liable for what may be the most substantial cost they impose on accident victims-"hedonic damages," or the loss of the value of life ...
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(Nebraska Law Review, 1990)In the past several decades the treatment, habilitation and education of the mentally disabled has been heavily influenced by what could be called the "community-first" movement. This movement which encompasses such ...
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The Enterprise Zone Concept at the Federal Level: Are Proposed Tax Incentives the Needed Ingredient? (Virginia Tax Review, 1990)This article examines the concept of enterprise zones in the United States. Part II explores this concept from an historical perspective: first, the conceptual origins of the enterprise zone systein and how it made its way ...
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(The American Economic Review, 1990)Society has until recently devoted insufficient attention to the long-run environmental problems that we face, including acid rain and the greenhouse effect. Our inaction with respect to these risks can hardly be characterized ...
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(Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 1990)The nature of privilege is that it is hidden from those who possess it even more than it is hidden from those who lack privilege. Privilege's invisibility to its owner makes privilege difficult to both identify and fight.
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(The American Economic Review, 1990)Taylor's series and logarithmic estimates of health state-dependent utility functions both imply that job injuries reduce one's utility and marginal utility of income, thus rejecting the monetary loss equivalent formulation. ...
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(American University Law Review, 1990)The original emphasis of risk-utility analysis on the need for balanced decisions with respect to product liability is a correct and fundamental principle. Moreover, many traditional factors that have been considered ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 1990)Approximately one-third of Robert Bork's new book, "The Tempting of America," is devoted to attacking "the bloody crossroads" that were his confirmation hearings. A careful reading of the book as a whole, however, serves ...
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(Southwestern Law Journal, 1991)This Article does not attempt to resolve all the compelling questions posed by the conflicting policy objectives associated with the ESA. Rather, the Article focuses on an important emerging issue - the concept of a regional ...
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(Virginia Journal of International Law, 1991)The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons' is an exceptionally complex document with the avowed purpose of radically altering the choice of law rules in the succession field ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1991)There is a disturbing new trend among American universities. Many universities, both public and private, are adopting regulations that punish what is commonly called '"hate speech." Hate speech is expression that is ...
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(Toledo Law Review, 1991)In "Cottage Savings Association v. Commissioner" the Sixth Circuit delves into a little known aspect of the savings and loan crisis -- the attempt by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to use the Internal Revenue Code ("Code") ...