Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works: Recent submissions
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(Berkeley Business Law Journal, 2005)This is a short essay on what should be the fundamental criterion used to evaluate corporate law. I argue that the overall goal of good corporate law should be to assist private parties to create wealth for themselves and ...
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(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: ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2001)Recent empirical work has demonstrated that large, publicly held firms tend to file for bankruptcy in Delaware. In our previous work, we have documented this trend, and argued that it may be efficient for prepackaged ...
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Integrating Ecosystem Services into Environmental Law: A Case Study of Wetlands Mitigation Banking (Stanford Envir4onmental Law Journal, 2001)This article argues that Section 404 of the Clean Water Act provides ample statutory authority for the Corps of Engineers and EPA to integrate ecosystem service values and impacts into wetlands impact and mitigation decisions.
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(University of Colorado Law Review, 1992)The attention and hand-wringing lavished on race relations by Aleinikoff and many others obscures the fact that by every measurement of formal equality, and by many measures of substantive equality, white women are further ...
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(Environmental Law, 2009)Reform proposals pending in the U.S. Congress would increase federal and regional power to preempt states in siting transmission lines on order to allow the development of a high-votage transmission grid for renewable ...
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(Virginia Law Review, 2000)Constitutional takings protections, such as those in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, create a potential for state liability for changes in regulatory policy by governments. This Article critiques ...
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(Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2003)Numerous authors, from all points on the political spectrum, have advocated that police interrogations be taped. But police rarely record custodial questioning, at least in full, and only a handful of courts have found ...
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2010)This article examines group-focused police investigation techniques - for instance, roadblocks, drug testing programs, area or industry-wide health and safety inspections, data mining, and camera surveillance - a phenomenon ...
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(North Carolina Law Review, 2000)In this Article, Professors Edelman and Sherry use a probabilistic model to explore the process of coalition formation on the United States Supreme Court. They identify coalition formation as a Markov process with absorbing ...
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(Harvard Journal on Legislation, 1989)Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend ...
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(Constitutional Commentary, 1985)Being a Supreme Court justice must have been more fun in the eighteenth century than it is today. The caseload was lighter, and the Court was a social as well as a political center., The justices also apparently felt ...
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(Akron Law Review, 2007)Would-be infringers target university patents because faculty inventors are more likely to make inadvertent disclosures than industrial inventors, possibly because of the importance of quick disclosure and publishing in ...
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(Seattle University Law Review, 2013)In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, practitioners and theorists in law, finance, and economics are rethinking our theories about how the financial sector influences the real economy. In particular, they are ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2003)This Article argues that corporate status became popular in the nineteenth century as a way to organize production because of the unique manner in which incorporation permitted organizers to lock in financial capital. ...
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(Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2009)This article provides an exhaustive typology of the uses of foreign law in order to provide insight into whether foreign law can be appropriately used in constitutional interpretation, when it can be used, and what the ...
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(Wisconsin Law Review, 1996)Using Census data and the Survey of Income Program participation (SIPP), the authors use social science methodology to show that blacks pay more federal income tax than whites at the same income levels.
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(Toledo Law Review, 1991)In "Cottage Savings Association v. Commissioner" the Sixth Circuit delves into a little known aspect of the savings and loan crisis -- the attempt by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to use the Internal Revenue Code ("Code") ...
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(South Texas Law Review, 1987)This article focuses on one of the defenses to CERCLA liability, specifically, the third-party defense set forth in section 107(b)(3) of the Act [CERCLA § 107(b)(3), 42 U.S.C. § 9607(b)(3) (1982)] ... The particular concern ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1993)Over the past two and a quarter centuries, Americans have understood rights and liberties in a variety of different ways. What I hope to do in this essay is to describe the two most prominent traditions of our heritage of ...