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Can the States Keep Secrets From the Federal Government?
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2012)
States amass troves of information detailing the regulated activities of their citizens, including activities that violate federal law. Not surprisingly, the federal government is keenly interested in this information. It ...
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, ...
Pawnshops, Behavioral Economics, and Self-Regulation
(Review of Banking & Financial Law, 2012)
Pawnbroking is the oldest source of credit. There is growing public interest in day-to-day pawnbroking operations, as evidenced by the popularity of reality shows such as “Pawn Stars” and “Hardcore Pawn.” Television viewers’ ...
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 ...
Money and (Shadow) Banking: A Thought Experiment
(Review of Banking & Financial Law, 2012)
This paper approaches the shadow banking problem from a monetary point of view. It does so by means of a simple thought experiment. The aim is to strip away the inessentials so as to reveal some of the basic legal-institutional ...
Medical Marijuana and the Political Safeguards of Federalism
(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 ...
Raising the Bar
(Arizona State Law Journal, 2012)
This paper explores the adoption of best practices for the admission and graduation of undocumented students as lawyers and promoting their integration into the legal profession. Law schools are already both knowingly and ...
Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts
(Catholic University Law Review, 2012)
Two seemingly different federal enforcement systems that affect the movement of unskilled workers — the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts and current state immigration enforcement policies — have remarkable similarities. ...
Good for You, Bad for Us
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
The Evolution and the Expression of Biases
(Evolution and Human Behavior, 2012)
The endowment effect is the seemingly irrationally tendency to immediately value a possessed item more than the opportunity to acquire the identical item when one does not already possess it. The phenomenon has broad legal ...