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Corporate Voting and the Takeover Debate
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)
For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
Getting the Math Right: Why California Has Too Many Seats in the House of Representatives
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2006)
Over the last 40 years of one person, one vote jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has distilled a stable and predictable test for resolving the basic numerical issue in equal representation: how much population difference ...
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 ...
On Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2002)
There has been a spate of interest in the application of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
to issues in the law. This theorem holds that a majority vote among a suitably large
body of voters, all of whom are more likely than not ...
The Most Dangerous Justice Rides Again: Revisiting the Power Pageant of the Justices
(Minnesota Law Review, 2001)
Who is the most powerful Supreme Court Justice? In 1996 we measured voting power on the Court according to each Justice's ability to form five-member coalitions. From the set of all coalitions formed by the Court during ...
The Dimension of the Supreme Court
(Constitutional Commentary, 2004)
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lawrence Sirovich introduced two novel mathematical techniques to study patterns in recent Supreme Court decisions. One of these methods, information ...
Paradoxes of Fair Division
(The Journal of Philosophy, 2001)
Paradoxes, if they do not define a field, render its problems intriguing and often perplexing, especially insofar as the paradoxes remain unresolved. Voting theory, for example, has been greatly stimulated by the Condorcet ...
Corporate Voting and the Takeover Debate
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)
For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
Sunstein 1s and 2s
(Green Bag, 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 ...