Browsing Law School by Subject "Law"

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    • Symposium: The Role of Federal Law in Private Wealth Transfer 
      Schoenblum, Jeffrey (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)
      Increasingly, federal law impacts court decisions involving private wealth transfer. Increasingly, federal law is the central consideration in premortem and postmortem planning for private wealth transfer. Despite this, ...
    • Transforming (perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law Through Adaptive Governance 
      Ruhl, J.B.; Gosnell, Hannah; Chaffin, Brian C.; Arnold, Craig Anthony; Craig, Robin K.; Benson, Melinda H.; Devenish, Alan (Ecology and Society, 2017)
      The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is often portrayed as a major source of instability and crisis in river basins of the U. S. West, where the needs of listed fish species frequently clash with agriculture dependent on federal ...
    • Treating Kids Right 
      Slobogin, Christopher (Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1999)
      The concept of amenability to treatment is, in theory, at the core of juvenile delinquency jurisprudence. From its inception as an entity separate from the adult criminal court, the juvenile court was meant to focus on the ...
    • Unfulfilled Promises 
      Shinall, Jennifer B. (DePaul Law Review, 2016)
      The passage of the ACA is a source of great pride for President Barack Obama's Administration, and the President undoubtedly hopes that the ACA will be his greatest legacy. 285 As a result, it is difficult to understand ...
    • Uninformative Patents 
      Seymore, Sean B. (Houston Law Review, 2017)
      It is a bedrock principle of patent law that an inventor need not know or understand how or why an invention works. The patent statute simply requires that the inventor explain how to make and use the invention. But ...
    • The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Bullock, Blair Druhan (Washington & Lee Law Review, 2014)
      Experts routinely criticize three aspects of regression analyses presented by the opposing party in employment discrimination cases: omitted explanatory variables, sample size, and statistical significance. However, these ...
    • Using Data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries to Estimate the "value of a statistical life" 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
      The advent of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries has enabled researchers to reduce measurement error in fatality rate estimates; in turn, estimates of the “value of a statistical life” that are based on labor market ...
    • Vanderbilt Law School in the Nineteenth Century: Its Creation and Formative Years 
      Bruce, Jon W.; Welch, D. Don (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)
      Vanderbilt University Law School is recognized today as offering one of the nation's preeminent programs in legal education. Its opening in Nashville in 1874, however, was inauspicious at best, and its operation during the ...
    • A View from the Trenches 
      Newton, Michael A. (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2003)
      As a former armor officer, my roots are literally in the trenches. In sharing my figurative view from the trenches regarding the pursuit of justice, you should know that the pursuit of justice is the very core of our ...
    • Who Knows What and When? 
      Slobogin, Christopher; Hazel, James W. (Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2018)
      Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies have proliferated in the past several years. Based on an analysis of genetic material submitted by consumers, these companies offer a wide array of services, ranging ...
    • Why Crime Severity Analysis is Not Reasonable 
      Slobogin, Christopher (Iowa Law Review Bulletin, 2012)
      effrey Bellin’s article, Crime Severity Distinctions and the Fourth Amendment: Reassessing Reasonableness in a Changing World, argues that the severity of the crime under investigation ought to be taken into account ...