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Megafirms
(North Carolina Law Review, 2001)
This paper documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain the growth, and have generally examined ...
"Apprendi" and Plea Bargaining
(Stanford Law Review, 2001)
Before "Apprendi", prosecutors using recidivism as a club could, and did, regularly insist that defendants admit aggravating facts as part of the plea or face additional time. When the prosecutor's threats of added time ...
Essential Elements
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2001)
The Court has struggled for well over a century with the issue of who has final authority to define what is a "crime" for purposes of applying procedural protections guaranteed by the Constitution in criminal cases. Just ...
Homogenized Law: Can the United States Learn from African Mistakes?
(Fordham International Law Journal, 2001)
For the last fifty years we have seen an outflow of United States laws to developing countries. This legal outflow has caused problems of enforcement in societies that do not share the values, needs or concerns of the law ...
Transmissions of Music on the Internet: An Analysis of the Copyright Laws of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2001)
This Article examines the status of copyright laws in several countries as they pertain to transmissions of music on the Internet. Because the exact legal ramifications of music transmissions over the Internet are currently ...
Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)
Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating ...
Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2001)
Conventional legal and economic analysis assumes that opportunistic behavior is discouraged and cooperation encouraged within firms primarily through the use of legal and market incentives. This presumption is embodied in ...
Bargaining in the Shadow of Administrative Procedure: The Public Interest in Rulemaking Settlement
(Duke Law Journal, 2001)
This article addresses problems associated with settlement of appeals of legislative rules adopted by administrative agencies. Settlement is a common and important tool for avoiding litigation, but it also raises potential ...
Inside the Judicial Mind
(Cornell Law Review, 2001)
The quality of the judicial system depends upon the quality of decisions that judges make. Even the most talented and dedicated judges surely make occasional mistakes, but the public understandably expects judges to avoid ...
Director Accountability and the Mediating Role of the Corporate Board
(Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001)
One of the most pressing questions facing both corporate scholars and businesspeople today is how corporate directors can be made accountable. Before addressing this issue, however, it seems important to consider two ...