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Refugee Reception and Perception
(Fordham International Law Journal, 2017)
The reception of refugees and asylum seekers has emerged as one of the most critical contemporary global issues. In 2015, the world experienced the most forced migrants since World War II. This essay compares the treatment ...
Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets
(American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)
This paper tests for incentive and selection effects in a subprime consumer credit market. We estimate the incentive effect of loan size on default using sharp discontinuities in loan eligibility rules. This allows us to ...
Beyond Equality
(Indiana Law Journal, 2011)
Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...
Regulating Money Creation After the Crisis
(Harvard Business Law Review, 2011)
Like bank deposits, money market instruments function in important ways as "money." Yet our financial regulatory regime does not take this proposition seriously. The (non-government) issuers of money market instruments-almost ...
The Idea of the Criminal Justice System
(American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)
The phrase "the criminal justice system " is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States-so ubiquitous that, at least in colloquial use, almost no one thinks to question the ...
Presidential Exit
(Duke Law Journal, 2018)
The flow of executive orders, presidential memoranda, proclamations, determinations, executive agreements, national security directives, signing statements and other pronouncements emanating from the early days of every ...
Buchanan and the Right to Acquire Property
(Cumberland Law Review, 2018)
This article examines the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Buchanan v. Warley (1917) invalidating residential segregation laws as a deprivation of property rights without due process of law. The decision was premised ...
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before "Powell v. Alabama"
(Iowa Law Review, 2014)
Isabella Nitti-the first woman sentenced to death in Illinois-was national news in her time. Today she is remembered (if at all) as one of the notorious "husband killers" who inspired the Broadway play Chicago. Less
well ...
Legal Strategies for Economic Empowerment of Persons in Recovery
(West Virginia Law Review, 2018)
This essay focuses on legal strategies to expand employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for persons in recovery. The topic is vital because economic wellbeing contributes to "recovery capital" - the internal and ...
Feminism and the Tournament
(Texas Law Review Online, 2018)
Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in the Age of Inequality, by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit, offers a new account of the glass ceiling, connecting the phenomenon with shoddy corporate ...