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    • Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure? 
      Edelman, Paul L.; Jiang, W.; Thomas, Randall S. (Texas Law Review, 2019)
      Dual-class voting systems have been widely employed in recent initial public offerings by large tech companies but have been roundly condemned by institutional investors and the S&P 500. As an alternative, commentators ...
    • WIPO Panel 1. The Application of International Treaties in Relation to Collective Management of Rights 
      Hansen, Hugh; Ficsor, Mihaly; Sukin, Michael; Owens, Richard (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: Nature and scope of rights concerned; technological protection measures (TPM) and rights management information; the challenges ahead: systems interoperability and market access. Role of identification ...
    • WIPO Panel 2. Emerging New Services: Their Impact on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 
      Gervais, Daniel J., 1963-; Baptiste, Eric; Collins, Patrick; Lubin, Steve; Rechardt, Lauri; Griffin, Jim (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: Consumer electronics and rights management: file-sharing, MP3, Pod casting, station-ripping, streaming and other digital services; music, video and TV programs on mobile telephones, such as the UMTS ...
    • WIPO Panel 3. Licensing, Documentation and Distribution Issues in the Management of Copyright and Related Rights 
      Simson, John L.; Balchin, Alan; Churgin, Gary; Riggle, Greg; Steinberg, Michael; Candilora, Vincent (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: Conditions and licensing techniques. Fee structures. Collection and distribution of fees. New uses for modern technology. Reciprocal representation agreements between collective management organizations. ...
    • WIPO Panel 4. Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights - Developing Countries and Regional Perspectives 
      Schuster Vergara, Santiago; Mello, Roberto; Bouchard, Mario; Morris, Scot; Demas, Allison (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: What are the main problems encountered by societies in developing countries? The management of national and international repertoire. The role of governments and/or judiciary in the establishment and ...
    • WIPO Panel 5. Collective Management of Mechanical Rights 
      Baskin, David; Marks, Steven; Sanders, Charles; Peters, Marybeth; Hughes, Laurie; Blomqvist, Jorgen (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: The relationship between compulsory licenses and collective rights management. The proposal to abolish the mechanical license in Section 115 of the US Copyright Act and reactions thereto. What would be ...
    • WIPO Panel 6. The Protection and Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights: The Role of Collective Management Organizations and of Performers and Producers of Phonograms 
      Polach, Patricia; Berenson, Marvin; Marks, Steven; Caballero, Jose Luis; Spurgeon, Paul; Nuttall, Francois-Xavier (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: Measures to combat illegal downloading. Are technical means, including digital rights management, relevant and efficient to fight against Internet piracy? The role of each category of rights owners in the ...
    • WIPO Panel 7. The Entertainment Industry in Today's Market Economy and Digital Environment 
      Friedman, Daryl P.; Chaitovitz, Ann; Ficsor, Mihaly; McGivern, Joan (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
      Issues discussed: The agenda of the music industry and content providers. Towards catalogues of music on line. Consequences and impact of the new online music destination, offering ad-supported legal downloads of audio and ...
    • The Wisconsin Diploma Privilege: Try It, You'll Like It 
      Moran, Beverly I. (Wisconsin Law Review, 2000)
      The big question that the Wisconsin diploma privilege raises is whether waivers into practice upon graduation can work outside the Dairy State. Is Wisconsin simply so unique that its successful experience cannot be replicated ...
    • Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Minnesota Law Review, 1993)
      Over the past two and a quarter centuries, Americans have understood rights and liberties in a variety of different ways. What I hope to do in this essay is to describe the two most prominent traditions of our heritage of ...
    • Women's Rights Litigation in the 1980s: More of the Same? 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Epstein, Lee, 1958- (Judicature, 1991)
      In the September 1983 issue of Judicature,Karen O'Connor and Lee Epstein published the results of their examination of the fate of gender-based cases in the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1970s. Overall, they found that the ...
    • Women's Virtue 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Tulane Law Review, 1989)
      Michael Perry's thoughtful jurisprudential musings in Morality, Politics, and Law get most things just right. His framework of moral knowledge and a constitution of aspirations resonates with much of the best of contemporary ...
    • Worker Learning and Compensating Differentials 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Moore, Michael J., 1953- (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
      In the standard compensating wage differential model, workers value their wage and workers' compensation components based on full job risk information. Market forces generate positive wage differentials as ex ante compensation ...
    • Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Meyer, Bruce D.; Durbin, David L. (The American Economic Review, 1995)
      This paper examines the effect of workers' compensation on time out of work. It introduces a "natural experiment" approach of comparing individuals injured before and after increases in the maximum weekly benefit amount. ...
    • Workers' Compensation: Wage Effects, Benefit Inadequacies, and the Value of Health Losses 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Moore, Michael J., 1953- (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987)
      Using the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey in conjunction with BLS risk series and state workers' compensation benefit formulas, the authors assess the labor market implications of workers' compensation. Higher levels of ...
    • Working Both (Positivist) Ends Toward a New (Pragmatist) Middle in Environmental Law 
      Ruhl, J. B. (George Washington Law Review, 2000)
      This review of Daniel Farber's recent book Eco-pragmatism, in which he argues on behalf of taking more pragmatic approaches to the development of environmental policy, provides both the background necessary for appreciating ...
    • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Conference 2007 Opening 
      Helfer, Laurence R.; Baptiste, Eric; Keplinger, Michael; Masouye, Patrick (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2007-10-26)
    • A World of Difference? Law Enforcement, Genetic Data, and the Fourth Amendment 
      Slobogin, Christopher; Hazel, James W. (Duke Law Journal, 2021)
      Law enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to genetic databases as a way of solving crime, either through requesting the DNA profile of an identified suspect from a database or, more commonly, by matching crime scene ...
    • World Without a Fourth Amendment 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (UCLA Law Review, 1991)
      The subject of this Article is suggested by a single question: How would we regulate searches and seizures if the Fourth Amendment did not exist? This question is a useful one to ask even leaving aside the possibility of ...
    • Wrong, Out of Step, and Pernicious: Erie as the Worst Decision of All Time 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Pepperdine Law Review, 2011)
      This essay was written for “Supreme Mistakes: Exploring the Most Maligned Decisions in Supreme Court History.” A symposium on the worst Supreme Court decision of all time risks becoming an exercise best described by Claude ...