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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 ...
The Private Life of Public Law
(Columbia Law Review, 2005)
This Article proposes a new conception of the administrative regulatory state that accounts for the vast networks of private agreements that shadow public regulations. The traditional account of the administrative state ...
Good for You, Bad for Us
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
Sunstein 1s and 2s
(Green Bag, 2008)
In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?
(Texas Law Review, 2019)
Dual-class voting systems have been widely employed in recent initial public offerings by large tech companies, but have been roundly condemned by institutional investors and the S&P 500. As an alternative, commentators ...
Dude, Where's My Car Title?
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2014)
Millions of credit-constrained borrowers turn to title loans to meet their liquidity needs. Legislatures and regulators have debated how to best regulate these transactions, but surprisingly, we still know very little about ...
Private Governance Responses to Climate Change
(Fordham Environmental Law Review, 2018)
This Article explores how private governance can reduce the climate effects of global civil aviation. The civil aviation sector is a major contributor to climate change, accounting for emissions comparable to a top ten ...
How to Save the Supreme Court
(Yale Law Journal, 2019)
The consequences of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation are seismic. Justice Kavanaugh, replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy, completes a new conservative majority and represents a stunning Republican victory ...
Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy?
(Journal of Law and Economics, 2019)
An estimated ten million American households borrow on payday loans each year. Despite the prevalence of these loans, little is known about the effects of access to this form of short-term, high-cost credit. We match ...
Has the "M" Word Been Framed? Marijuana, Cannabis, and Public Opinion
(PLoS One, 2019)
Over the past two decades, a growing cadre of US states has legalized the drug commonly known as “marijuana.” But even as more states legalize the drug, proponents of reform have begun to shun the term “marijuana” in favor ...