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Antitrust Scrutiny for the Occupations: North Carolina Dental and Its Impact on U.S. Licensing Boards
(Pazmany Law Review, 2019)
The American system of occupational licensing is under attack. The current regime – which allows for almost total self-regulation – has weathered sustained criticism from consumer advocate groups, academics, politicians, ...
Introducing an Interdisciplinary Frontier to Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work
(Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)
This special issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology ...
Beyond Elegance
(Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2003)
Social norms scholarship faces the challenge of becoming a mature discipline. Norms theorists have proposed several elegant, widely applicable theories of the origin, evolution and function of norms. For the most part, ...
Patenting Around Failure
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2018)
Many patents cover inventions that do not work as described. Fingers often point to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office), which is criticized for doing a poor job of examining patents. But the story is more ...
Dude, Where's My Car Title?
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2014)
Millions of credit-constrained borrowers turn to title loans to meet their liquidity needs. Legislatures and regulators have debated how to best regulate these transactions, but surprisingly, we still know very little about ...
Private Governance Responses to Climate Change
(Fordham Environmental Law Review, 2018)
This Article explores how private governance can reduce the climate effects of global civil aviation. The civil aviation sector is a major contributor to climate change, accounting for emissions comparable to a top ten ...
The Social Meaning of Environmental Command and Control
(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2001)
This essay draws on the new social norms literature to examine one of the possible reasons for the public misperceptions about the sources of the remaining environmental problems. The essay suggests that one of the insights ...
Democracy and Dysfunction
(Alabama Law Review, 2018)
Since the 1930s, corporate law scholarship has focused narrowly on the public corporation and the problem of the separation of ownership and control — a problem many now believe has been mitigated or even solved. With rare ...
Topic Modeling the President
(George Washington Law Review, 2018)
Law is generally represented through text, and lawyers have for centuries classified large bodies of legal text into distinct topics — they “topic model” the law. But large bodies of legal documents present challenges for ...
Decoding Guilty Minds: How Jurors Attribute Knowledge and Guilt
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2018)
A central tenet of Anglo-American penal law is that in order for an actor to be found criminally liable, a proscribed act must be accompanied by a guilty mind. While it is easy to understand the importance of this principle ...