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Learning from Experience: The Impact of Research About Family Support Programs on Public Policy
(University of Pennsylvania, 2014-09-24) -
Learning from Prozac: A Case Study on Reforming the FDA Drug Approval Process
(1997)The law, focused as it is on making final determinations and settling issues one way or another, continually lags behind science, which concentrates on an evolving understanding of various phenomena through constant ... -
Learning to Live With the Dilemma of Difference: Bilingual and Special Education
(Duke University School of Law, 1985) -
Lee v. Kemna: Federal Habeas Corpus and State Procedure
(Harvard Law School, 2013) -
Legal Academic Backlash: The Response of Legal Theorists to Situationist Insights
(2008)This article is the third of a multipart series. The first part, "The Great Attributional Divide," argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less ... -
Legal Advice about Information to Present in Litigation: Its Effects and Social Desirability
(The Harvard Law Review Association, 1989)Legal advice provided in the course of litigation often concerns the selection of information to present to a tribunal. Professors Kaplow and Shavell examine the effects and social desirability of this kind of advice. They ... -
A Legal Education for the Administrative State: Dean James M. Landis in the History of American Legal Education
(2013)Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, C. C. Langdell’s traditional model of legal education – a closed system of abstract concepts, judicial decisions and private law – faced substantial challenge from the rise of the ... -
The Legal Implications of Report Back in Household Exposure Studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2016)Background: Scientists conducting research into household air or dust pollution must decide whether, when, and how to disclose to study participants their individual results. A variety of considerations factor into this ... -
Legal Institutions and Informal Networks
(SAGE Publications, 2006)The relationship between third-party contract enforcement and informal networks raises important sociological, political, and economic questions. When economic activity is embedded in social structures, what are the ... -
Legal Origin and Modern Stock Markets
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2006)Legal origin - civil vs. common law - is said in much modern economic work to determine the strength of financial markets and the structure of corporate ownership, even in the world''s richer nations. The main means are ... -
Legal Origin or Colonial History?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)Economists have documented pervasive correlations between legal origins, modern regulation, and economic outcomes around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly correlated with another ... -
Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets
(Ames Foundation at the Harvard Law School, The, 2006)Legal origin - civil vs. common law - is said in much modern economic work to determine the strength of financial markets and the structure of corporate ownership, even in the world's richer nations. The main means are ... -
Legal Origins, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement
(Mohr, 2010)This paper empirically compares civil procedure in common-law and civil-law countries. Using World-Bank and hand-collected data, and unlike earlier studies that used predecessor data sets, this paper finds no systematic ... -
Legal Profession and Government Lawyers: What is the Highest Competing Duty to Act in the Public Interest?
(2017)It is assumed by many scholars that “the government attorney may have authority regarding legal matters that do not exist in a private lawyer-client relationship, including the settlement of a matter or declining to appeal ... -
Legal Realism for Economists
(American Economic Association, 2009)Economists have made great progress in understanding the incentives and behavior of actors who operate outside of traditional economic markets, including voters, legislators, and bureaucrats. The incentives and behavior ... -
Legal Realism for Lawyers
(The Harvard Law Review Association, 1990)In this Article, Professor Wilkins argues that the traditional model of legal ethics is premised on formalist assumptions about the constraining power of legal rules. Specifically, that model assumes that "the bounds of ... -
Legal Reason Redux
(Case Western Reserve University, 2007) -
Legal Reasoning in Congress
(College of Law, State University of Iowa, 2010) -
Legal reviews of weapons, means and methods of warfare involving artificial intelligence: 16 elements to consider
(Humanitarian Law & Policy, 2019-03-21)What are some of the chief concerns in contemporary debates around legal reviews of weapons, means or methods of warfare involving techniques or tools related to artificial intelligence (AI)? One session of the December ...