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    • King, Nancy J., 1958-; Hoffmann, Joseph L., 1957- (California Law Review Circuit, 2010-08)
      In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court, in a powerful and eloquent majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, vindicated the right of a non-U.S. citizen, held in custody at a military base outside the United States, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Huber, Joel; Bell, Jason (Economics researcher) (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2008)
      We estimate rates of time preference using a utility-based choice experiment administered to a nationally representative sample of 2,914 respondents. For the full sample, the rate of time preference is very high for ...
    • O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
      This Article examines the conduct of BP executives in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to illuminate the use of apology by organizations. After briefly describing the value of apology and its nuances ...
    • Haley, John Owen (Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2013)
      Professor Haley is an outstanding international and comparative law scholars, widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies in the United States. In 1969, Haley received a fellowship from the University ...
    • 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 ...
    • Haley, John Owen (Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2013)
      In June 2012, Professor Haley was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) from the Emperor of Japan for his contribution to the discipline of Japanese law and education to Japanese legal professionals and academics. ...
    • Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Rossi, Jim, 1965- (North Carolina Law Review, 2013)
      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 ...
    • Newton, Michael A., 1962- (Roger Williams University Law Review, 2007)
      Modern warfare presents an array of legalistic overtones that require the presence and participation of attorneys of exceptional courage and breadth of expertise in demanding and austere conditions. Military lawyers today ...
    • King, Nancy J., 1958- (Yale Law Journal Online, 2012)
      The Supreme Court in Missouri v. Frye1 and Lafler v. Cooper2 broke new ground by holding for the first time that a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment can be violated by the ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Oklahoma Law Review, 2014)
      Courts and scholars have devoted considerable attention to the definition of probable cause and reasonable suspicion. Since the demise of the “mere evidence rule” in the 1960s, however, they have rarely examined how these ...
    • Gervais, Daniel J. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
      One of the central issues in the Golan v. Holder litigation is the extent to which the United States had flexibility to tailor the protection of existing works that had fallen in the public domain when it joined the Berne ...
    • Moran, Beverly I. (Fordham International Law Journal, 2001)
      For the last fifty years we have seen an outflow of United States laws to developing countries. This legal outflow has caused problems of enforcement in societies that do not share the values, needs or concerns of the law ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2010)
      The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Ziliak, James Patrick (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2010)
      We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Orr, Dan (Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2005)
      In this article, we conduct a meta-analysis of studies of simulated negotiations to explore the impact of an initial "anchor," typically an opening demand or offer, on negotiation outcomes. We find that anchoring has a ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (St. Thomas Law Review, 2005)
      This article suggests ways in which the common law can integrate concepts of ecosystem services to fulfill pragmatic objectives of common law doctrine. Rather than requiring a radical departure from traditional common law ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Law and Economics, 1985)
      A recurring issue in the economic analysis of risk regulation agencies is whether these efforts have had any significant favorable effect on safety. Although the existence of such an effect would not necessarily imply that ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)
      Almost since the inception of the risk and environmental agencies in the early 1970s, there has been a continuing concern with ensuring that regulations yield societal benefits commensurate with their costs. This recognition ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (Indiana Law Journal, 2014)
      The American legal system has proven remarkably robust even in the face vast and often tumultuous political, social, economic, and technological change. Yet our system of law is not unlike other complex social, biological, ...