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Discounting Dilemmas: Editors' Introduction
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008)
Two developments pose dilemmas for well established discounting techniques: (1) The
extremely long time horizons associated with recently prominent environmental policy problems, such as climate change and nuclear waste ...
The Forest and the Trees
(Vanderbilt Lawyer, 2002)
Ask those who carefully follow the Supreme Court, and they will tell you that--for good or bad, depending on their perspective--the current Supreme Court has reduced to near rubble the metaphorical wall separating church ...
An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employment Contracts
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2006)
In this paper, we examine the key legal characteristics of 375 employment contracts between some of the largest 1500 public corporations and their Chief Executive Officers. We look at the actual language of these contracts, ...
Commenting on Geier v. American Honda Motor Co.
(Harvard Law Review, 2000)
Preemption is probably the most frequently used constitutional doctrine in practice. It is the doctrine by which Congress supersedes state law and establishes uniform federal regulatory schemes to ensure the smooth ...
The Environmental Law of Farms
(Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)
Farms and farming are intrinsically linked with human civilization, and have had a dramatic impact on our planet's landscape and environmental systems. Environmental regulation in the United States, though young when ...
Adverse Possession of Identity: Radical Theory, Conventional Practice
(Oregon Law Review, 2005)
This Article examines the conditions under which acting as if one has a particular legal status is sufficient to secure that status in the eyes of the law. Legal determinations of common-law marriage, functional parenthood, ...
Election as Appointment: The Tennessee Plan Reconsidered
(Tennessee Law Review, 2008)
Tennessee's merit system for selecting judges - referred to as the Tennessee Plan - has been controversial ever since it was enacted in 1971 to replace contested elections. The greatest controversy has been whether the ...
Welcome to Hazleton! "Illegal" Immigrants Beware
(Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 2009)
On July 13, 2006, the city of Hazleton made national news as the first municipality in the country to pass ordinances against illegal immigrants. The majority of municipal legislation that passed regulated the employment ...
Soft Law as Delegation
(Fordham International Law Journal, 2009)
This article examines one of the most important trends in international legal governance since the end of the Second World War: the rise of "soft law," or legally non-binding instruments. Scholars studying the design of ...
The Public and Private Faces of Derivative Lawsuits
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)
Derivative suits, long the principal vehicle for discussions about representative litigation in corporate and securities law, now share the stage with younger cousins - securities fraud class actions and state law fiduciary ...