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Second Generation Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment and Beyond
(Stanford Law Review, 1999)
In his 1963 article in the Stanford Law Review, "Choice of Law and the Federal System," Professor William F. Baxter criticized the choice-of-law approach of the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. According to the ...
Individual Rationality, Hazard Warnings, and the Foundations of Tort Law
(Rutgers Law Review, 1996)
If all people were fully rational and cognizant of all the risks they faced, then they would always select an efficient level of safety in all their activities and other choices. Thus people would trade off the potential ...
Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
Abstract-The results of a national survey of smoking risks and smoking behavior are analyzed. Smoking risk perceptions follow the expected patterns given age differences in risk information acquired and differences in ...
The Sleep of Reason
(Georgetown Law Journal, 1996)
A very strange thing is happening in legal academia. The left and the right have joined forces, and the center is under attack. What makes this so unusual is that law has traditionally been a field of centrists. The common ...
Juror Delinquency in Criminal Trials in America, 1796-1996
(Michigan Law Review, 1996)
This article examines two aspects of the jury system that have attracted far less attention from scholars than from the popular press: avoidance of jury duty by some citizens, and misconduct while serving by others. ...
Let's Not Bury TERRY: A Call for Rejuvenation of the Proportionality Principle
(St. John's Law Review, 1998)
Thirty years ago, "Terry v. Ohio" established a conceptual framework for the Fourth
Amendment that makes more sense than any alternative the
courts or commentators have come up with since. That frame-work,
which I call ...
Between the Frontier and the Big City: Sixty Years of Small-Town Murder Prosecution
(Oklahoma Law Review, 1994)
This article examines small-town murder in Johnson County, Kansas, from 1880
to 1939. While providing lurid details of the murders committed over a sixty-year
period in the county's small towns and villages, this article ...
Teen Smoking Behavior and the Regulatory Environment
(Duke Law Journal, 1998)
Professor Hersch argues that most state regulations aimed at fighting teen smoking have had little or no effect. She provides evidence that despite widespread age restrictions on purchasing tobacco, most teens do not ...
Reasonable Expectations of Privacy and Autonomy in Fourth Amendment Cases: An Empirical Look at "Understandings Recognized and Permitted by Society"
(Duke Law Journal, 1993)
This Article reports an attempt to investigate empirically
important aspects of the Fourth Amendment to the United States
Constitution, as construed by the United States Supreme Court. In
the course of doing so, it ...
Treating Kids Right
(Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1999)
The concept of amenability to treatment is, in theory, at the core of juvenile delinquency jurisprudence. From its inception as an entity separate from the adult criminal court, the juvenile court was meant to focus on the ...