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Symposium: The Role of Federal Law in Private Wealth Transfer
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)
Increasingly, federal law impacts court decisions involving private wealth transfer. Increasingly, federal law is the central consideration in premortem and postmortem planning for private wealth transfer. Despite this, ...
How and Why is the American Punishment System "Exceptional"?
(The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018-04-24)
Anyone interested in American criminal justice has to wonder why we have so many more people in prison—in absolute as well as relative terms—than the western half of the European continent, the part of the world most readily ...
Inside the Arbitrator's Mind
(Emory Law Journal, 2017)
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what judges are to domestic dispute resolution. Despite its global significance, arbitral decision making is a black box. This ...
Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism
(Southern California Law Review, 2014)
Shareholder voting is a key part of contemporary American corporate governance. As numerous contemporary battles between corporate management and shareholders illustrate, voting has never been more important. Yet, traditional ...
Are College Presidents Like Football Coaches? Evidence from Their Employment Contracts
(Arizona Law Review, 2016)
College presidents and football coaches are frequently criticized for their high compensation. In this paper, we argue that these criticisms are unmerited, as the markets for both college presidents and football coaches ...
Who Knows What and When?
(Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2018)
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies have proliferated in the past several years. Based on an analysis of genetic material submitted by consumers, these companies offer a wide array of services, ranging ...
The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2014)
Experts routinely criticize three aspects of regression analyses presented by the opposing party in employment discrimination cases: omitted explanatory variables, sample size, and statistical significance. However, these ...
Condemning the Decisions of the Past
(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2011)
This brief Essay, part of a Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium on eminent domain in New York, argues that there is a seldom-recognized purpose to eminent domain: preserving the ability of elected representatives to respond ...
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 ...
Reinvention
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2017)
It is axiomatic that once an invention has been patented, it cannot be patented again. This aligns with the quid pro quo theory of patents — the public would receive nothing new in exchange for the second patent. Enforcing ...