Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-"

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    • Organizational Apologies: BP as a Case Study 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
      This Article examines the conduct of BP executives in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to illuminate the use of apology by organizations. After briefly describing the value of apology and its nuances ...
    • Outsourcing, Modularity, and the Theory of the Firm 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Kirchhoefer, Gregg; Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (Brigham Young University Law Review, 2011)
      Firms have increasingly moved productive activities from within to outside the firm through outsourcing arrangements. According to some estimates, the value of outsourcing contracts has been nearly 100 billion dollars per ...
    • Parole, in "Eighteenth Annual Review of Criminal Procedure: United States Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, 1987-88" 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Georgetown Law Journal, 1989)
      The purpose of parole is to integrate prisoners into society by allowing them to serve a portion of their sentences outside prison. While on parole, the parolee is subject to the continuing supervision of a parole or ...
    • Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination 
      Ribstein, Larry E.; O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Michigan Law Review, 2013)
      The doctrine treating federal preemption of state law has been plagued by uncertainty and confusion. Part of the problem is that courts purport to interpret congressional intent when often Congress has never considered the ...
    • Redistribution Through Discriminatory Taxes: A Contractarian Explanation of the Role of the Courts 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Dougan, William R. (George Mason Law Review, 1998)
      What role should courts serve regarding wealth redistribution through tax provisions? Perhaps they should base decisions on efficiency grounds, protecting society from the transactions costs and other wealth reductions ...
    • Rules and Institutions in Developing a Law Market: Views from the United States and Europe 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Ribstein, Larry E. (Tulane Law Review, 2008)
      Developments in European choice of law seem to offer the United States a tantalizing opportunity for escape from the chaos of state-by-state choice-of-law rules. Specifically, the Rome Regulations provide the sort of uniform ...
    • Second Generation Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment and Beyond 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Allen, William H. (Lawyer) (Stanford Law Review, 1999)
      In his 1963 article in the Stanford Law Review, "Choice of Law and the Federal System," Professor William F. Baxter criticized the choice-of-law approach of the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. According to the ...
    • Social Constraint or Implicit Collusion?: Toward a Game Theoretic Analysis of Stare Decisis 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Seton Hall Law Review, 1993)
      This Article suggests an alternative, internal rationale for why judges follow precedents. The Article posits that stare decisis has evolved as a result of judges' preference for the doctrine. The Article begins with an ...
    • Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Robbins, Maria Mayo (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)
      In this article we propose changing the manner in which control rights over criminal sanctions are distributed. This modest change has the potential to increase victim well-being without interfering with social needs. ...
    • Victim Participation in the Criminal Process 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Journal of Law and Policy, 2005)
      This essay does not promote the Victims' Rights Amendment16 or advocate any other specific victims' rights proposal. 17 Rather, it suggests that, as a positive matter, victim involvement in the criminal process is becoming ...
    • Victims and Prison Release: A Modest Proposal 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2006)
      The political right pushes for the strengthening of our criminal justice system by expanding victims' rights at the expense of defendant protections. The political left advocates the gradual replacement of the criminal ...