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Economic Structure and Constitutional Structure
(Texas Law Review, 2016)
In the last four decades, the American middle class has been hollowed out, and fears are growing that economic inequality is leading to political inequality. These trends raise a troubling question: Can our constitutional ...
Insuring Takings Claims
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2016)
Local governments typically insure themselves against all kinds of losses, from property damage to legal liability. For small- and medium-sized governments, this usually means purchasing insurance from private insurers or ...
Normalizing Erie
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
This Article argues that the Erie doctrine should be normalized by bringing it into line with ordinary doctrines of federalism. Under ordinary federalism doctrines – such as the dormant commerce clause, implied preemption, ...
Is the Supreme Court Failing at Its Job, or Are We Failing at Ours
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016-05)
Sanford Levinson calls for a new constitutional convention in Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). This review explains how Levinson overstates the ...
The Invisible Revolution in Plea Bargaining
(Texas Law Review, 2016)
This article, the most comprehensive study of judicial participation in plea negotiations since the 1970s, reveals a stunning array of new procedures that involve judges routinely in the settlement of criminal cases. ...
Selective Judicial Activism
(Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2016)
This Essay, written for a symposium asking “Is the Rational Basis Test Unconstitutional?,” defends the bifurcated-scrutiny approach of Carolene Products and its famous footnote four. A growing cadre of conservative and ...
Conducting a Large, Multi-Site Survey About Patients' Views on Broad Consent: Challenges and Solutions
(BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016)
As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health care settings will be important in order to ...
Unfulfilled Promises
(DePaul Law Review, 2016)
The passage of the ACA is a source of great pride for President Barack Obama's Administration, and the President undoubtedly hopes that the ACA will be his greatest legacy. 285 As a result, it is difficult to understand ...
Agencies Running from Agency Discretion
(William & Mary Law Review, 2016)
Discretion is the root source of administrative agency power and influence, but exercising discretion often requires agencies to undergo costly and time-consuming pre-decision assessment programs, such as under the Endangered ...
Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment
(The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...