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Rationalizing the Taxation of Reorganizations and Other Corporate Acquisitions
(Virginia Tax Review, 2007)
This article examines the taxation of human shareholders in the
case of mergers and acquisitions. Currently, the relevant law is
extraordinarily complex, utterly inconsistent, and in many instances
arguably unfair. There ...
Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning About Risk
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000)
This paper incorporates a Bayesian learning model into a hedonic framework to estimate the value that residents place on avoiding cancer risks from hazardous-waste sites. We show that residents are willing to pay to avoid ...
Integrity and Reflection
(Fordham Law Review, 2003)
Professor Waldron and Professor Michelman have presented us with two interesting, but very different, views on what procedural components might contribute to the integrity of lawmaking. I will focus on a different aspect ...
The President's Statutory Powers to Administer the Laws
(Columbia Law Review, 2006)
When does a statute grant powers to the President as opposed to other officials? Prominent theories of presidential power argue or assume that any statute granting authority to an executive officer also implicitly confers ...
In Family Law, Love's Got a Lot to Do With It: A Response to Phillip Shaver
(Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 2009)
In a contribution to this Symposium on Law and Emotion: Re-Envisioning Family Law, Phillip Shaver and his co-authors succinctly encapsulate contemporary psychological theory on interpersonal attachment -- primarily ...
Three Questions for Agriculture About the Environment
(Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 2002)
This article is the third in my series studying agriculture and environmental law. It asks why agriculture has not evolved toward more environmentally responsible behavior and points to possible "green" solutions that will ...
Climate Change
(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2008)
A substantial proportion of the United States population is at or below the poverty level, yet many of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures proposed or adopted to date will increase the costs of energy, motor ...
Law, Evolution, and the Brain: Applications and Open Questions
(2004)
This essay discusses several issues at the intersection of law and brain science. If focuses principally on ways in which an improved understanding of how evolutionary processes affect brain function and human behavior may ...
Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect
(William & Mary Law Review, 2008)
Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...
On the Nature of Norms: Biology, Morality, and the Disruption of Order
(Michigan Law Review, 2000)
This essay discusses the legal implications of bio-behavioral underpinnings to norms, morality, and economic order. It first discusses the recent book "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social ...