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Reinvention
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2017)
It is axiomatic that once an invention has been patented, it cannot be patented again. This aligns with the quid pro quo theory of patents — the public would receive nothing new in exchange for the second patent. Enforcing ...
Shareholder Voting in Proxy Contests for Corporate Control, Uncontested Director Elections and Management Proposals
(Oklahoma Law Review, 2017)
This paper surveys the empirical literature on shareholder voting, specifically on votes related to contested and uncontested director elections and on management proposals. While much of current theory depicts shareholder ...
What is the Essential Fourth Amendment?
(Texas Law Review, 2012)
In More Essential Than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century, Stephen Schulhofer provides a strong, popularized brief for interpreting the Fourth Amendment as a command that judicial review precede all ...
Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010)
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects ...
The 1909 Copyright Act in International Context
(Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, 2010)
The passage of the 1909 U.S. Copyright Act was embedded in a significant period of evolution for international copyright law. Just a year before, the Berne Convention had been revised for the second time. This Berlin (1908) ...
Regulation in the Behavioral Era
(Minnesota Law Review, 2011)
Administrative agencies have long proceeded on the assumption that individuals respond to regulations in ways that are consistent with traditional rational actor theory, but that is beginning to change. Agencies are now ...
Law and the Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts?
(Georgetown Law Journal, 2015)
In 2013, the Supreme Court made the offhand comment that empirical models and their estimations or predictions are not 'findings offact" deserving of deference on appeal. The four Justices writing in dissent disagreed, ...
The Production Function of the Regulatory State
(Minnesota Law Review, 2017)
How much will our budget be cut be this year? This question has loomed ominously over regulatory agencies for over three decades. After the 2016 presidential election, it now stands front and center in federal policy, with ...
Altering Attention in Adjudication
(UCLA Law Review, 2013)
Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention to every aspect of a case. Case outcomes might thus depend on which aspects of ...
Reinventing Lisbon: The Case for a Protocol to the Lisbon Agreement (Geographical Indications)
(Chicago Journal of International Law, 2010)
The Doha Development Agenda (Doha Round) of multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) may fail unless a solution to the establishment of a multilateral register for geographical indications on ...