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Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2001)
Conventional legal and economic analysis assumes that opportunistic behavior is discouraged and cooperation encouraged within firms primarily through the use of legal and market incentives. This presumption is embodied in ...
The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics
(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)
Proposals to provide juries with specific numerical instructions for setting punitive damages should bring greater rationality to punitive damages awards. This approach is tested using evidence from 353 jury-eligible ...
Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)
A sample of almost 500 jury-eligible citizens considered a series of experimental
situations involving accidents. The juror sample did not properly apply negligence
rules, as their errors were particularly great for ...
Court Fixing
(Arizona Law Review, 2001)
This Article critically examines the existing social science evidence on the relative importance of various individual factors on judicial behavior and adds to that evidence by considering the influence of prior academic ...
Accommodation and Equal Liberty
(William and Mary Law Review, 2001)
How should legislatures respond to requests from religious individuals or institutions for exemptions to generally applicable laws? In Employment Division v. Smith, the Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause does ...
Constitutional Risks to Equal Protection in the Criminal Justice System
(Harvard Law Review, 2001)
This Note has examined the consequences of a shift in the equal protection context - a move from a traditional particularized harm perspective to a constitutional risk perspective focused on systemic harms. It has also ...
Transmissions of Music on the Internet: An Analysis of the Copyright Laws of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2001)
This Article examines the status of copyright laws in several countries as they pertain to transmissions of music on the Internet. Because the exact legal ramifications of music transmissions over the Internet are currently ...
The Environmental Law of Farms
(Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)
Farms and farming are intrinsically linked with human civilization, and have had a dramatic impact on our planet's landscape and environmental systems. Environmental regulation in the United States, though young when ...
Director Accountability and the Mediating Role of the Corporate Board
(Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001)
One of the most pressing questions facing both corporate scholars and businesspeople today is how corporate directors can be made accountable. Before addressing this issue, however, it seems important to consider two ...
Whither the Race? A Comment on the Effects of the Delawarization of Corporate Reorganizations
(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 ...