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Is Groton the Next "Evenwel"?
(Michigan Law Review Online, 2018)
In Evenwel v Abbott the Supreme Court left open the question of whether states could employ population measures other than total population as a basis for drawing representative districts so as to meet the requirement of ...
Supply and Demand
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
Like many fields, energy law has had its ups and downs. A period of remarkable activity in the 1970s and early 1980s focused on the efficiencies arising from deregulation of energy markets, but the field attracted much ...
Order Without Social Norms
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2005)
This Article tackles a leading problem confronting norms theorists and regulators: how can the law induce changes in behavior when the material costs to the individual outweigh the benefits and there is no close-knit ...
The Rutabaga That Ate Pittsburgh
(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 ...
Countering Nationalist Oligarchy
(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)
The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.
Payday Loans and Credit Cards
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009)
Using a unique dataset matched at the individual level from two administrative sources, we examine household choices between liabilities and assess the informational content of prime and subprime credit scores in the ...
Proprioception, Non-Law, and Biolegal History
(Florida Law Review, 2001)
This Article explores several advantages of incorporating into law various insights from behavioral biology about how and why the brain works as it does. In particular, the Article explores the ways in which those insights ...
The Copy Process
(New York University Law Review, 2016)
There’s more than one way to copy. The process of copying can be laborious or easy, expensive or cheap, educative or unenriching. But the two intellectual property regimes that make copying an element of liability, copyright ...
U.S. Conflict of Laws Involving International Estates and Marital Property
(Iowa Law Review, 2018)
A number of states, as well as foreign jurisdictions, impose a community property regime. Under this regime, regardless of the title to property, each spouse is deemed to own a fifty percent interest in assets. When a ...
Regulation of Payday Loans
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2012)
Since payday lenders came on the scene in 1990s, regulation of
their ')redatory" practices has been swift and often severe. Fourteen
states now ban payday loans outright. From an economist's
perspective, high-interest, ...