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Tarasoff as a Duty to Treat: Insights From Criminal Law
(University of Cincinnati Law Review, 2006)
In most jurisdictions, the Tarasoff duty is defined as a duty on the part of mental health professionals to act on patient threats of serious harm to identified individuals. Although breach of this duty has, to date, only ...
An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employment Contracts: What Do Top Executives Bargain For?
(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, ...
The Allocation Problem in Multiple-Claimant Representatives
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2006)
Multiple-claimant representations--class actions and other group lawsuits-pose two principal-agent problems: Shirking (failure to maximize the aggregate recovery) and misallocation (distribution of the aggregate recovery ...
In Defense of Regulatory Peer Review
(Washington University Law Review, 2006)
The debate over application of peer review to the regulatory decisions of administrative agencies has heated up in the last year. Part of the larger and controversial sound science movement, mandating peer review for certain ...
My Patent, Your Patent, or Our Patent? Inventorship Disputes Within Academic Research Groups
(Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, 2006)
The statutory requirement of identifying the first and true inventor is often muddled by the mores and practices of academic science. Unfortunately, and despite claims of scientists and attorneys to the contrary, I contend ...
Does the Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions
(Columbia Law Review, 2006)
The PSLRA's lead plaintiff provision was adopted in order to encourage large shareholders with claims in a securities fraud class action to step forward to become the class' representative. Congress' expectation was that ...
Patients and Biobanks
(Villanova Law Review, 2006)
The question about the privacy of medical information can be stated simply: To what extent can and should patients control what the medical record contains and who has access to it and for what purposes? Patients often ...
In Search of a Unifying Principle for Article V of the Uniform Trust Code: A Response to Professor Danforth
(Cardozo Law Review, 2006)
Professor Robert Danforth's exploration of spendthrift trusts in
Article Five of the UTC and the Future of Creditors 'Rights in Trusts is a
superb piece of work. Professor Danforth analyzes with considerable
acuity the ...
Natural Disaster Risks: An Introduction
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006)
An introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty dealing with the implications of catastrophic events for research on risk and uncertainty. What are the
consequences of natural disasters? How do ...
National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006)
A nationally representative sample of respondents estimated their fatality risks from four
types of natural disasters, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster
relief. For all hazards, including auto ...