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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 ...
"The Threes"
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
Behavioral Genetics and Crime, In Context
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)
This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime.
It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
Climate Change: The China Problem
(Southern California Law Review, 2008)
The central problem confronting climate change scholars and policymakers is how to create incentives for China and the United States to make prompt, large emissions reductions. China recently surpassed the United States ...
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 ...
Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
Law, Responsibility, and the Brain
(PLoS Biology, 2007)
This article addresses new developments in neuroscience, and their implications for law. It explores, for example, the relationships between brain injury and violence, as well as the connections between mental disorders ...