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The National Implications of Liability Reforms for General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
The stabilization of the insurance market may lead to lower prices for products and for medical care, but will also generally lead to lower values of tort awards as well. If the social objective was simply to reduce losses, ...
Symposium: The Rise of the International Trust
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1999)
The international trust, the subject of the Symposium, is experiencing an extraordinary reception worldwide. It is being utilized by individuals from countries with legal cultures that traditionally have not known this ...
Quantum Leap: A Black Woman Uses Legal Education to Obtain Her Honorary White Pass
(Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 1990)
The nature of privilege is that it is hidden from those who possess it even more than it is hidden from those who lack privilege. Privilege's invisibility to its owner makes privilege difficult to both identify and fight.
How Do Judges Think About Risk?
(American Law and Economics Review, 1999)
A sample of almost 100 judges exhibited well-known patterns of biases in risk beliefs and reasonable implicit values of life. These biases and personal preferences largely do not affect attitudes toward judicial risk ...
Nonlawyer Legal Assistance and Access to Justice
(Fordham Law Review, 1999)
Nonlawyer legal assistance is a necessary ingredient of any plan for meaningful access to the courts. The American Bar Association Commission on Nonlawyer Practice found in 1995 "that as many as 70% to 80% or more of ...
Is the Federal Government Suiting Up to Play in the Reform Game?
(Capital University Law Review, 1991)
A recent Louis Harris poll revealed that seventy-five percent of the American public believes that college athletics are a mess.' Certainly, if you had read such books as College Sports Inc. ,2 Undue Process,3 Major ...
Using Warnings to Extend the Boundaries of Consumer Sovereignty
(Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 1999)
We make decisions every day for which we may not have full information. Not all such decisions lead to negative consequences, however. For example, scientists still know very little about why aspirin has its beneficial ...
Adoption in the Progressive Era: Preserving, Creating, and Re-Creating Families
(The American Journal of Legal History, 1999)
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the ...
Opening Offers and Out-of-Court Settlement: A Little Moderation May Not Go a Long Way
(The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 1994)
When two litigants resolve a dispute through out-of-court settlement rather than trial, they realize joint gains of trade equal to the sum of the costs both parties would have incurred had they obtained a trial judgment ...
In Defense of Author Prominence: A Reply to Crespi and Korobkin
(Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
We set out to provide our ranking of specialized reviews for three
reasons. First, given the dearth of published information about the
specialized law review phenomenon, we sought to provide some basic
information about ...