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The Google Book Settlement and the TRIPS Agreement
(Stanford Technology Law Review, 2011)
The proposed amended settlement in the Google Book case has been the focus of numerous comments and critiques. This "perspective" reviews the compatibility of the proposed settlement with the TRIPS Agreement and relevant ...
The Derivative Nature of Corporate Constitutional Rights
(William & Mary Law Review, 2015)
This Article engages the two hundred year history of corporate constitutional rights jurisprudence to show that the Supreme Court has long accorded rights to corporations based on the rationale that corporations represent ...
The Essential Role of Courts for Supporting Innovation
(Texas Law Review, 2014)
Commercial parties commonly resolve their disputes in arbitration rather than courts. In fact, some estimate that as many as 90 percent of international commercial contracts opt for arbitration of future disputes, and ...
Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education
(Review of Law and Economics, 2012)
This paper reports the distribution of doctoral degrees in economics and in other fields among faculty at the 26 highest ranked law schools. Almost one-third of professors at the top 13 law schools have a Ph.D. degree, ...
The Benefits of Mortality Risk Reduction: Happiness Surveys vs. The Value of a Statistical Life
(Duke Law Journal, 2013)
A principal component of many benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of health, safety, and environmental regulations is the valuation of the fatality risk effects of the underlying policy. Government agencies currently value these ...
Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability After Calabresi
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 2014)
Calabresi’s theory of tort liability (1961) as a risk distribution mechanism established insurance as an objective of tort liability. Calabresi’s risk-spreading concept of tort has provided the impetus for much of the ...
Reflections on the University of Washington's Asian Law Center
(Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2013)
In June 2012, Professor Haley was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) from the Emperor of Japan for his contribution to the discipline of Japanese law and education to Japanese legal professionals and academics. ...
Making Patents Useful
(Minnesota Law Review, 2014)
It is axiomatic in patent law that an invention must be useful. The utility requirement has been a part of the statutory scheme since the Patent Act of 1790. But what does it mean to be useful? The abstract and imprecise ...
Managing Systemic Risk in Legal Systems
(Indiana Law Journal, 2014)
The American legal system has proven remarkably robust even in the face vast and often tumultuous political, social, economic, and technological change. Yet our system of law is not unlike other complex social, biological, ...
Islamic Law Meets ERISA: How America's Private Pension System Unintentionally Discriminates Against Muslims and What to Do About It
(University of California at Davis Law Review, 2012)
This article asks whether Muslims whose religious beliefs prevent investment in their employers’ private pension plans have a right to religious accommodation. This is a real issue for a growing part of the population whose ...