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Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control
(Michigan Law Review, 2006)
From the inception of the administrative state, scholars have proposed various models of agency decision-making to render such decision-making accountable and effective, only to see those models falter when confronted by ...
Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market
(Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006)
This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in ...
Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2006)
It is commonly assumed that lighter skinned African Americans receive preferential treatment over darker skinned counterparts. Using individual data from three sources, this paper examines the influence of skin tone on ...
Monetizing the Benefits of Risk and Environmental Regulation
(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2006)
Should the benefits of risk and environmental regulations be monetized? For economists, this question is not controversial. Benefits of government policies have a value given by society's willingness to pay for these ...
Getting the Math Right: Why California Has Too Many Seats in the House of Representatives
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2006)
Over the last 40 years of one person, one vote jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has distilled a stable and predictable test for resolving the basic numerical issue in equal representation: how much population difference ...
An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools
(Indiana Law Journal, 2006)
Empirical legal scholarship is arguably the most significant emerging intellectual movement. Empirical legal scholarship (ELS), as the term is generally used in law schools, refers to a specific type of empirical research: ...
The Puzzle of State Constitutions
(Buffalo Law Review, 2006)
In a series of groundbreaking articles published over the past fifteen years, James Gardner has led the charge to make state constitutionalism a part of the constitutional law discussion more generally. His new book, ...
Insurers, Illusions of Judgment & Litigation
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2006)
Insurers play a critical role in the civil justice system. By providing liability insurance to parties who would otherwise be untenable as defendants, insurers make litigation possible. Once litigation materializes, insurers ...
Reconceptualizing Due Process in Juvenile Justice: Contributions from Law and Social Science
(Hastings Law Journal, 2006)
This article challenges the accepted wisdom, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in Gault, that procedures in juvenile delinquency court should mimic the adult criminal process. The legal basis for this challenge ...
Structural Laws and the Puzzle of Regulating Behavior
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2006)
This Article offers a new way of thinking about over criminalization. It argues that in regulating behavior, legislatures have relied excessively on statutory prohibitions and ex post enforcement by police and prosecutors. ...