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Governing for Sustainable Coasts: Complexity, Climate Change, and Coastal Ecosystem Protection
(Sustainability, 2010)
The world’s coastal ecosystems are among the most complex on Earth, and they
are currently being governed unsustainably, by any definition. Climate change will only
add to this complexity, underscoring the necessity of ...
The Teaching Function of Patents
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2010)
In theory, a patent serves the public good because the disclosure of the invention brings new ideas and technologies to the public and induces inventive activity. But while these roles inherently depend on the ability of ...
Obama's Equivocal Defense of Agency Independence
(Constitutional Commentary, 2010)
You can't judge a President by his view of Article II. At the very least, only looking to a President's construction of Article II gives a misleading portrait of the actual legal authority recent Presidents have asserted. ...
Climate Change, Dead Zones, and Massive Problems in the Administrative State: A Guide for Whittling Away
(California Law Review, 2010)
Mandates that agencies solve massive problems such as sprawl and climate change roll easily out of the halls of legislatures, but as a practical matter what can any one agency do about them? Serious policy challenges such ...
Arbitration Clauses in CEO( Employment Contracts: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2010)
A bill currently pending in Congress would render unenforceable mandatory arbitration clauses in all employment contracts. Some perceive these provisions as employer efforts to deprive employees of important legal rights. ...
Slipping Away from Justice: the Effect of Attorney Skill on Trial Outcomes
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2010)
Just how important is a good attorney? Can a skillful attorney actually change the verdict? More importantly, in criminal trials, can a good defense attorney let guilty people go free, or can a good prosecutor send innocent ...
The Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life: Introduction and Overview
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010)
The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although ...
Ecosystem Services and the Clean Water Act: Strategies for Fitting New Science into Old Law
(Environmental Law, 2010)
This Article explores the administrative reform potential that exists for integrating new knowledge about ecosystem services into Clean Water Act (CWA) regulatory programs as an example for all environmental laws. Part II ...
Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life
(Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010)
Economic research has developed estimates of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL) on dimensions such as individual age, income, immigrant status, and the nature of the risk exposure. This paper examines ...
The Specter of Sisyphus: Re-Making International Financial Regulation After the Global Financial Crisis
(Emory International Law Review, 2010)
The global financial crisis is forcing a thorough re-evaluation of the international regulatory architecture. The crisis has shown not only the cracks in regulatory oversight, but also a market operation that had long ...