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    • Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Robbins, Maria Mayo (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)
      In this article we propose changing the manner in which control rights over criminal sanctions are distributed. This modest change has the potential to increase victim well-being without interfering with social needs. ...
    • Using Data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries to Estimate the "value of a statistical life" 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
      The advent of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries has enabled researchers to reduce measurement error in fatality rate estimates; in turn, estimates of the “value of a statistical life” that are based on labor market ...
    • Using State Inspection Statutes for Discovery in Federal Securities Fraud Actions 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Martin, Kenneth J. (Boston University Law Review, 1997)
      We propose that plaintiffs in securities fraud actions should use state inspections statutes to obtain discovery about potential securities fraud cases. First, we argue that the Private Securities Law Reform Act has ...
    • Using Warnings to Extend the Boundaries of Consumer Sovereignty 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (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 ...
    • Utility Functions that Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Evans, William N. (The American Economic Review, 1990)
      Taylor's series and logarithmic estimates of health state-dependent utility functions both imply that job injuries reduce one's utility and marginal utility of income, thus rejecting the monetary loss equivalent formulation. ...
    • The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Woock, Christopher, 1979-; Ziliak, James Patrick (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012)
      This article addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) ...
    • Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Kniesner, Thomas J. (American Economic Review, 2005)
      This paper examines the influence on estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) of the worker's relative position in the wage distribution and relative position in the life cycle. Whereas past work on relative position ...
    • The Value of Life in Legal Contexts: Survey and Critique 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (American Law and Economics Review, 2000)
    • The Value of Risks to Life and Health 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Economic Literature, 1993)
      The 1980s marked the first decade in which use of estimates of the value of life based on risk tradeoffs became widespread throughout the Federal government. Previously, agencies assessed only the lost present value of the ...
    • Vanderbilt Law School in the Nineteenth Century: Its Creation and Formative Years 
      Bruce, Jon W.; Welch, D. Don (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)
      Vanderbilt University Law School is recognized today as offering one of the nation's preeminent programs in legal education. Its opening in Nashville in 1874, however, was inauspicious at best, and its operation during the ...
    • Venue Shopping: The Judges of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Williams, Margaret S. (Margaret Susan) (Judicature, 2014)
      The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (or "MDL Panel") is one of a small number of special federal courts created pursuant to Article III by Congress and staffed by a Chief-Justice-appointed group ...
    • Victim Participation in the Criminal Process 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Journal of Law and Policy, 2005)
      This essay does not promote the Victims' Rights Amendment16 or advocate any other specific victims' rights proposal. 17 Rather, it suggests that, as a positive matter, victim involvement in the criminal process is becoming ...
    • Victims and Prison Release: A Modest Proposal 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2006)
      The political right pushes for the strengthening of our criminal justice system by expanding victims' rights at the expense of defendant protections. The political left advocates the gradual replacement of the criminal ...
    • A View from the Trenches 
      Newton, Michael A. (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2003)
      As a former armor officer, my roots are literally in the trenches. In sharing my figurative view from the trenches regarding the pursuit of justice, you should know that the pursuit of justice is the very core of our ...
    • Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Del Rossi, Alison F.; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (2015-12-17)
      Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based ...
    • Wading Through the Muddle of Risk-Utility Analysis 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (American University Law Review, 1990)
      The original emphasis of risk-utility analysis on the need for balanced decisions with respect to product liability is a correct and fundamental principle. Moreover, many traditional factors that have been considered ...
    • Waging War: Japan's Constitutional Constraints 
      Haley, John Owen (Constitutional Forum, 2005)
      Both electoral results and public opinion polls have long revealed what most observers have viewed as a paradox if not a contradiction. By significant majorities, the Japanese people appear to oppose any revision of article ...
    • Waivers, Flexibility, and Reviewability 
      Rossi, Jim, 1965- (Chicago -Kent Law Review, 1997)
      In this Comment, I shall explore the issue of reviewability, as discussed by Krent, in the context of one flexible approach to regulation-- express agency waiver of regulations. Part I of this Comment addresses the increased ...
    • War and American Constitutional Order 
      Brandon, Mark E. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)
      In their introduction to a fine new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop claim that "[i]f the twentieth century has been an American century, it is because the ...
    • Warning: Labeling Constitutions May Be Hazardous to Your Regime 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2004)
      What do the following cases have in common? In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale,2 the Court upheld the right of a private organization to ignore a generally applicable state statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ...