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Welcome to Hazleton! "Illegal" Immigrants Beware
(Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 2009)
On July 13, 2006, the city of Hazleton made national news as the first municipality in the country to pass ordinances against illegal immigrants. The majority of municipal legislation that passed regulated the employment ...
Behavioral Genetics and Crime, In Context
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)
This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime.
It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
Sunstein 1s and 2s
(The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2008)
In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 2009)
Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
The Carbon-Neutral Individual
(New York University Law Review, 2007)
Reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change will require leveling off greenhouse gas emissions over the short term and reducing emissions by an estimated sixty to eighty percent over the long term. To achieve these ...
Individual Carbon Emissions
(UCLA Law Review, 2008)
The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
"The Threes"
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
Micro-Offsets and Macro-Transformation
(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 ...
The New Wal-Mart Effect
(UCLA Law Review, 2007)
This Article argues that networks of private contracts serve a public regulatory function in the global environmental arena. These networks fill the regulatory gaps created when global trade increases the exploitation of ...
An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employment Contracts
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2006)
In this paper, we examine the key legal characteristics of 375 employment contracts between some of the largest 1500 public corporations and their Chief Executive Officers. We look at the actual language of these contracts, ...