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Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals
(Journal of Legal Education, 2020)
Almost as soon as the ink was dry on the first U.S. News & World Report (U.S. News) ranking of law schools in 1987, scholars began developing rankings to replace or complement the U.S. News rankings. Over the past several ...
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 ...
Beneficial Precaution: A Proposed Approach to Uncertain Technological Dangers
(Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice, 2020)
As a result of the specialization and cumulation of knowledge in the era of High Modernity, research and development in most technical fields is largely incomprehensible to anyone outside that field. What should policy ...
The Patent Option
(North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2019)
There is a shift in the shape of intellectual property tools used to strengthen and lengthen the right of pharmaceutical companies to exclude others from making and marketing their products. Patents have traditionally been ...
Derivable Works
(UCLA Law Review, 2020)
This Article offers a theory. Granting originators exclusivity over derivative works and their related merchandise can enable marginal investment to tilt toward what I call derivable works: works that, from the owner's ex ...
The Research Patent
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2021)
The patent system gives courts the discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide optimal incentives for innovation. For chemical inventions, the courts deem them unpatentable if the ...
Efficient Ethical Principles for Making Fatal Choices
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2021)
Resource allocations of all kinds inevitably encounter financial constraints, making it infeasible to make financially unbounded commitments. Such resource constraints arise in almost all health and safety risk contexts, ...
Tonal Concept and Feel
(Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 2021)
In the world of music-copyright litigation, “feel” has lately become a controversial word. Musical feel, some have argued, is becoming too propertized. When a jury in 2015 found the writers of the hit song “Blurred Lines” ...
Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2020)
Mental states matter. Consequently, we and colleagues designed and executed a brain-imaging experiment attempting to detect-for the first time-differences between mental states relevant to criminal law. Imagine you've just ...
Forks in the Road
(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2020)
This Essay outlines a simple heuristic that will enable public and private policymakers to focus on the most important climate change mitigation strategies. Policymakers face a dizzying array of information, pressure from ...