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(Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2006)Natural catastrophes often have catastrophic risks on insurance companies as well as on the insured. Using a very large dataset on homeowners' insurance coverage by state, by firm, and by year for the 1984 to 2004 period, ...
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(Oklahoma Law Review, 2014)Courts and scholars have devoted considerable attention to the definition of probable cause and reasonable suspicion. Since the demise of the “mere evidence rule” in the 1960s, however, they have rarely examined how these ...
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(Cardozo Law Review, 2021)Policymakers around the country are grappling with how to provide a second chance to people with criminal records. These records create collateral consequences-invisible punishments that inhibit opportunity in all facets ...
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(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)Proposals to provide juries with specific numerical instructions for setting punitive damages should bring greater rationality to punitive damages awards. This approach is tested using evidence from 353 jury-eligible ...
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(Cleveland State Law Review, 2021)A cornerstone of First Amendment doctrine is that counterspeech - speech that responds to speech, including disfavored, unpopular, or offensive speech - is preferable to government censorship or speech regulation. The ...
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(American Law and Economics Review, 2009)This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme ...
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The Changing Meaning of "Gift": An Analysis of the Tax Court's Decision in "Carson v. Commissioner" (Vanderbilt Law Review, 1979)The complexity of detail that characterizes the Internal Revenue Code (Code) has been the subject of intense criticism and only faint praise. Yet, one of the more striking anomalies of the Code is that its often suffocating ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2003)A number of high-profile toxic tort cases, such as silicone breast implants, have followed a familiar and disturbing path: Early studies suggest a link between a suspected substance and a particular illness. Based on these ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2021)Judicial deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes is a foundational principle of the administrative state. It recognizes that Congress has the need and desire to delegate the details of regulatory policy ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2021)Judicial deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes is a foundational principle of the administrative state. It recognizes that Congress has the need and desire to delegate the details of regulatory policy ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 2009-01)Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. asks courts to determine whether Congress has delegated to administrative agencies the authority to resolve questions about the meaning of statutes that those ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)"Grutter v. Bollinger" is familiar to American lawyers, academics, and law students as the Supreme Court decision allowing the consideration of race in law school admissions.... Accusations like those made in "Grutter" are ...
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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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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2005)This Essay explores the possibility that the market for online purchases fails to work as efficiently as it can because consumers lack trust in unknown vendors, and it argues that consumer distrust in unknown vendors can ...
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(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating ...
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(Supreme Court Economic Review, 1993)In Cipollone v Liggett Group, Inc., a splintered Court concluded that cigarette smokers who are injured through their consumption of tobacco may bring some state law tort claims against the manufacturers of the cigarettes. ...
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(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2009)The geographic footprint of cities--the space they occupy--is relatively small in comparison to their ecological footprint, which is measured in terms of impact on the sustainability of resources situated mostly outside ...
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(Green Bag 2d, 2010)Citizens United v. Election Commission held that, like human citizens, corporations can exercise their right to free speech by spending as much money as they like trying to influence elections. This article does not attack ...
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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, 2005)This article explores the jurisprudential and practical feasibility of a "preventive" regime of criminal justice. More specifically, it examines an updated version of the type of government intervention espoused four decades ...