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Explaining The International CEO Pay Gap: Board Capture Or Market Driven?
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)
If we look at convergence through the lens of the Risk Adjustment Theory, then international pay convergence will only occur if U.S. and foreign CEOs' firm-specific risk levels converge. Empirically, this is a difficult ...
The New Look of Shareholder Litigation: Acquisition-Oriented Class Actions
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)
Shareholder litigation is the most frequently maligned legal check on managerial misconduct within corporations. Derivative lawsuits and federal securities class actions are portrayed as slackers in debates over how best ...
Prescribing the Right Dose of Peer Review for the Endangered Species Act
(Nebraska Law Review, 2004)
....what I examine here is whether scientific-style peer review, depending on how it is dosed out, could be counterproductive for environmental law.The use of peer review as a component of regulatory procedure has not ...
The Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
(Emory Law Journal, 2004)
This paper provides an analysis of sixty-four punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. Based on an inventory of these cases, there is evidence that these blockbuster awards are highly concentrated geographically, ...
Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2004)
This paper presents the first empirical anatysis that demonstrates that juries differ from judges in awarding punitive damages. Our review of punitive damages awards of $100 million or more identified 63 such awards, of ...
Felony Jury Sentencing in Practice: A Three-State Study
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)
Jury sentencing in non-capital cases is one of the least understood procedures in contemporary American criminal justice. This Article looks beyond idealized visions of jury sentencing to examine for the first time how ...
Past, Present, and Future Trends of the Endangered Species Act
(Public Land and Resources Law Review, 2004)
this article is designed to convince readers that the past, present, and future trends of the ESA are all the same. To provide context, Part I presents a brief overview of the structure of the statute and the kinds of ...
Warning: Labeling Constitutions May Be Hazardous to Your Regime
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2004)
What do the following cases have in common? In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale,2 the Court upheld the right of a private organization to ignore a generally applicable state statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ...
Endangered Species Act Innovations in the Post-Babbittonian Era--Are There Any?
(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2004)
One of the mysteries of environmental policy in the Bush Administration will be how and why it squandered an opportunity to continue market-based administrative reforms of the Endangered Species Act begun, ironically, in ...
Risk Realization, Emotion, and Policy Making
(Missouri Law Review, 2004)
In their study of terrorism and SARS, Professor Feigenson and his colleagues report "significant positive correlations between people's risk perceptions and their negative affect." In their review of the judgment and ...