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    • Right Problem; Wrong Solution 
      King, Nancy J., 1958-; Hoffmann, Joseph L., 1957- (California Law Review Circuit, 2010-08)
      In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court, in a powerful and eloquent majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, vindicated the right of a non-U.S. citizen, held in custody at a military base outside the United States, ...
    • The Right to Voice Reprised 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Seton Hall Law Review, 2010)
      This article appears in a symposium issue of Seton Hall Law Review on courtroom epistemology. In Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness, I argued that ...
    • Rights Talk: Must We Mean What We Say? 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Law and Social Inquiry, 1992)
      Mary Ann Glendon has written a powerful and persuasive diagnosis of the ills besetting modern American society. Unlike many other commentators, Glendon refuses to lay the blame on any single group or institution but spreads ...
    • Risk Equity 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000)
      Risk equity serves as the purported rationale for a wide range of inefficient policy practices, such as the concern that hypothetical individual risks not be too great. This paper proposes an alternative risk equity concept ...
    • Risk Perceptions in Regulation, Tort Liability, and the Market 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Regulation, 1991)
      Risk regulations are generally based on a stylized view of the behavior of the individuals affected by the regulation. These behavioral assumptions establish the basis for regulation and also influence the character of the ...
    • Risk Realization, Emotion, and Policy Making 
      Guthrie, Chris (Missouri Law Review, 2004)
      In their study of terrorism and SARS, Professor Feigenson and his colleagues report "significant positive correlations between people's risk perceptions and their negative affect." In their review of the judgment and ...
    • Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Aldy, Joseph E. (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013)
      The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to identify the risk to humans, created tremendous uncertainty regarding the human risks ...
    • Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Aldy, Joseph E. (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013)
      The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to identify the risk to humans, created tremendous uncertainty regarding the human risks ...
    • The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (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 ...
    • Risky Business? 
      Mikos, Robert A. (Illinois Law Reviewhttps://illinoislawreview.org/first-100-days/, 2017)
      While it is clear that the new attorney general opposes state marijuana reforms, it is less clear what he will or even could do to block those reforms or to curb the industry that has flourished under them. The popularity ...
    • Risky Investment Decisions: How Are Individuals Influenced by Their Groups? 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Phillips, Owen R.; Kroll, Stephan (Economist) (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2011)
      We investigate the effect of group versus individual decision-making in the context of risky investment decisions in which all subjects are fully informed of the probabilities and payoffs. Although there is full information, ...
    • The Road Less Taken: Annulment at the Turn of the Century 
      Guthrie, Chris; Grossman, Joanna L. (American Journal of Legal History, 1996)
      It is hardly surprising that certain legal institutions--adoption, wills, and guardianship--have lasted through the centuries. Each meets a different, seemingly timeless need: providing parenting for orphans or abandoned ...
    • The Role of Courts in "Making" Law in Japan: The Communitarian Conservatism of Japanese Judges 
      Haley, John Owen (Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2013)
      Professor Haley is an outstanding international and comparative law scholars, widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies in the United States. In 1969, Haley received a fellowship from the University ...
    • The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance 
      Ruhl, J.B.; Cosens, Barbara A.; Craig, Robin K.; Hirsch, Shana Lee; Arnold, Craig Anthony; Benson, Melinda H.; DeCaro, Daniel A.; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Gosnell, Hannah; Schlager, Edella (Ecology and Society, 2017)
      The term “governance” encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes ...
    • The Role of Legal Doctrine in the Decline of the Islamic Waqf: A Comparison with the Trust 
      Schoenblum, Jeffrey A. (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1999)
      The Waqf and the trust have an ancient, intertwined history. However, whereas the Waqf has largely remained a static institution, the trust has proven remarkably flexible and responsive to changing conditions affecting ...
    • The Role of Mental Health Professionals in the Criminal Process: The Case for Informed Speculation 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951-; Bonnie, Richard J. (Virginia Law Review, 1980)
      In this article we have attempted to make the case for continued participation by appropriately qualified mental health professionals in the adjudication of reconstructive subjective issues of the criminal law. In Part I, ...
    • The Role of Private Environmental Governance in Climate Adaptation 
      Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Johnson, B. M. (Frontiers Climate, 2021-09-10)
      This Article examines the role of private environmental governance (PEG) in climate change adaptation. PEG occurs when private organizations perform traditionally governmental functions such as providing public goods and ...
    • The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (American Journal of Health Economics, 2015)
      Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias often yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are substantially below the mean VSL estimates. Labor market ...
    • Rules and Institutions in Developing a Law Market: Views from the United States and Europe 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Ribstein, Larry E. (Tulane Law Review, 2008)
      Developments in European choice of law seem to offer the United States a tantalizing opportunity for escape from the chaos of state-by-state choice-of-law rules. Specifically, the Rome Regulations provide the sort of uniform ...
    • The Rutabaga That Ate Pittsburgh 
      Vandenbergh, Michael P. (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 ...