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Putting Exclusionary Zoning in Its Place: Affordable Housing and Geographical Scale
(Fordhan Urban Law Journal, 2013)
The term “exclusionary zoning” typically describes a particular phenomenon: suburban large-lot zoning that reduces the supply of developable land and drives up housing prices. But exclusionary zoning in its modern form ...
The Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life: Introduction and Overview
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010)
The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although ...
Burden of Proof: A Review of Math on Trial
(American Mathematical Society, 2013)
In "Math on Trial," Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez write about the abuse of mathematical arguments in criminal trials and how these flawed arguments "have sent innocent people to prison" (p. ix). Indeed, people "saw their ...
Organizational Apologies: BP as a Case Study
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
This Article examines the conduct of BP executives in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to illuminate the use of apology by organizations. After briefly describing the value of apology and its nuances ...
Non-Capital Habeas Cases After Appellate Review: An Empirical Analysis
(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2012)
n 2007, researchers from the National Center for State Courts and Vanderbilt University Law School reported the findings from a study of litigation in 2384 randomly selected, non-capital habeas cases, approximately 6.5% ...
Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or Why the Other Essays Prove My Point)
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2013)
As all the Roundtable essays note, DaimlerChrysler asks the Supreme Court to decide whether and when the in-forum activities of a corporate subsidiary should give rise to general personal jurisdiction over the corporate ...
The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2014)
Experts routinely criticize three aspects of regression analyses presented by the opposing party in employment discrimination cases: omitted explanatory variables, sample size, and statistical significance. However, these ...
The Complementarity Conundrum: Are We Watching Evolution or Evisceration?
(Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 2010)
The Rome Statute nowhere defines the term "complementarity, " but the plain text of Article 1 compels the conclusion that the International Criminal Court was intended to supplement the foundation of domestic punishment ...
Reconsidering Reprisals
(Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 2010)
The prohibition on the use of reprisals is widely regarded as one of the most sacrosanct statements of the jus in bello applicable to the conduct of modern hostilities. The textual formulations are stark and subject to no ...
Constitutional Adjudication in Japan: Context, Structures, and Values
(Washington University Law Review, 2011)
Judges in Japan share the prevailing communitarian orientation of their society, an orientation that rejects Manichean choices and moral or "scientific" absolutes, but instead relies on their collective and individual ...