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    • Wuerth, Ingrid Brunk (Lewis & Clark Law Review, 2008)
      The Supreme Court's 2008 decision in Medellin v. Texas appears to represent a formalist turn in the Court's approach to foreign relations cases. The opinion emphasizes text as the key to treaty interpretation and it stresses ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Born, Patricia, 1964- (The Journal of Legal Studies, 1995)
      This article examines the effect of the liability reforms on medical malpractice insurance over the 1984-91 period. This is the first study to use data by firm and by state for every firm writing medical malpractice insurance ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Denver Law Review, 2019)
      Concerns with medical malpractice liability costs have been a principal factor leading states to adopt a series of tort liability reforms. Medical malpractice premiums have been declining, creating less of a cost-based ...
    • Mikos, Robert A. (Denver University Law Review, 2012)
      Medical marijuana has emerged as one of the key federalism battlegrounds of the last two decades. Since 1996, sixteen states have passed new laws legalizing the drug for certain medical purposes.' All the while, the federal ...
    • Megafirms 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Schwab, Stewart J.; Hansen, Robert Gordon, 1957- (North Carolina Law Review, 2001)
      This paper documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain the growth, and have generally examined ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Catholic University Law Review, 2005)
      The Task Force on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty (Task Force) established by the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association (ABA-IRR) has proposed that the ABA adopt three ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2009)
      In the recent decision of Indiana v. Edwards the Supreme Court held that the right to represent oneself may be denied to defendants who are competent to stand trial if they "still suffer from severe mental illness to the ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (Notre Dame Law Review, 1999)
      This article builds a model of federal constitutional amendments using proposed environmental quality rights amendments as a case study. I argue that environmental quality rights amendments are unworkable and violate the ...
    • Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Ackerly, Brooke A.; Forster, Fred E. (Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2009)
      We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by ...
    • Sitaraman, Ganesh (Boston University Law Review Online, 2018)
      I am very grateful to the Boston University Law Review for bringing together such a terrific group of scholars to engage with my book, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality ...
    • Schlunk, Herwig J. (SMU Law Review, 2006)
      An ever-shrinking hallmark of our federal income tax system is the apparent double taxation of some, but not all, business income. That is, some business income ultimately flows to the human shareholders of C corporations. ...
    • Moran, Beverly I. (Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 1991)
      The 1990 Minority Law Teachers Conference was dedicated to expanding the number of minorities in law teaching. To this end, the volume addresses a wide variety of concerns for new and veteran teachers including: teaching, ...
    • Moran, Beverly I. (Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 1991)
      The 1990 Minority Law Teachers Conference was dedicated to expanding the number of minorities in law teaching. To this end, the volume addresses a wide variety of concerns for new and veteran teachers including: teaching, ...
    • Meyer, Timothy (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020)
      Since 1962, when Congress passed the Trade Expansion Act, every new U.S. trade deal has had the same essential bargain at its core. Congress agrees to give the president the power to lower trade barriers, while at the same ...
    • Meyer, Timothy (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020-01)
      Since 1962, when Congress passed the Trade Expansion Act, every new U.S. trade deal has had the same essential bargain at its core. Congress agrees to give the president the power to lower trade barriers, while at the same ...
    • King, Nancy J.; Heise, Michael (Boston University Law Review, 2019)
      We provide the first estimate of the rate of appellate review for misdemeanors, concluding that appellate courts review no more than eight in ten thousand misdemeanor convictions and disturb only one conviction or sentence ...
    • Guthrie, Chris (Nevada Law Journal, 2007)
      Judging is difficult. This is obviously so in cases where the law is unclear or the facts are uncertain. But even in those cases where the law is as clear as it can be, and where the relevant facts have been fully developed, ...
    • O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Murphy, Richard S. (Supreme Court Economics Review, 1996)
      This article analyzes Supreme Court and other federal court cases, to explain the seemingly disparate incorporation of mistake of law excuses into federal criminal statutes. Most of the cases can be explained from an ...
    • Cheng, Edward K. (Journal of Law and Policy, 2005)
      This article will briefly survey some of the current and emerging legal issues surrounding mtDNA evidence. Parts I and II discuss basic evidentiary questions, including mtDNA's reliability and admissibility under Daubert7 ...
    • Newton, Michael A., 1962- (Roger Williams University Law Review, 2007)
      Modern warfare presents an array of legalistic overtones that require the presence and participation of attorneys of exceptional courage and breadth of expertise in demanding and austere conditions. Military lawyers today ...