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Re-Envisaging the International Law of Internal Armed Conflict: A Reply to Sandesh Sivakumaran
(European University Institute, 2011)The regulation of internal armed conflict by international law has come a long way in a very short space of time. Until the early 1990s, there were a minimum of international law rules applicable to internal armed conflict. ... -
Re-Solidifying Racial Bloc Voting: Empirics and Legal Doctrine in the Melting Pot
(Indiana University School of Law, 2011)Racial bloc voting is the central concept in judicial regulation of redistricting. For the past several decades, the definition and proof of this concept have depended on two premises: that polities can be conceptualized ... -
Reading Our Lips: The History of Lipstick Regulation in Western Seats of Power
(2006)This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 B.C. to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily ... -
The Real Fountain of Youth: How Old Drugs Get Covered By New Patents
(2003)Until 1995, the term of a patent was 17 years from issue, with a possible extension of five years for delays in market entry related to the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process. Still, many pharmaceutical ... -
The Real Judicial Activists
(New Prospect, Inc., 2007)To understand these figures, we observed that the Clinton administration sometimes made conservative decisions, challenged in the Supreme Court by public interest groups, and both Bush administrations sometimes made liberal ... -
The Real Thalidomide Baby: The Evolution of the FDA in the Shadow of Thalidomide, 1960-1997
(1997)This paper is intended to document the over thirty-year relationship between the FDA and thalidomide and to describe in some detail the new uses for that drug. The paper’s secondary goal is to demonstrate ... -
The Real World of Arbitrariness Review
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Reaping the Full Health Benefits of the Human Genome: The Duty to Warn and The Need to Establish a Comprehensive Federal Regulatory Structure for Genetic Testing
(2002)This paper discusses the need for a comprehensive federal regulatory structure governing genetic testing. Particularly, the article proposes a legal standard to govern physicians’ duty to warn their ... -
“Reasonable Doubt” in Islamic Law
(Yale Law School, 2015)Against a popular notion of Islamic law as a limited set of texts of divine origin that bar judicial discretion and require harsh punishment, this Article argues that Muslim jurists historically generated a doctrine of ... -
Reassessing Pre-market Regulation of Class III Medical Devices
(2003)Regulation of medical devices has evolved over the past twenty-five years. Initially, Congress created a regime where the safety and efficacy of all medical devices would be reviewed to varying degrees, depending on the ... -
Receiving the International
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Recess Appointments and Precautionary Constitutionalism
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013)In Noel Canning v. NLRB, 705 F.3d 490 (D.C. Cir. 2013), the D.C. Circuit held (inter alia) that the President’s constitutional power to make recess appointments does not include recesses during a session of the Senate ... -
Reclaiming Home Rule
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2003)Argues that a debate over suburban sprawl wrongly equates home rule with local legal autonomy and that anti-sprawl reformers are unduly hostile to local power. Methods of promoting local government cooperation in metropolitan ... -
Reconsidering Caffeine: An Awake and Alert New Look at America's Most Commonly Consumed Drug
(2004)Caffeine is one of the most pervasively ingested addictive substances in the United States, yet astoundingly little attention is paid to its ubiquitous presence. This Paper examines caffeine, the substance, from many ... -
Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine
(Harvard Law School, 1988)The fair use doctrine, codified at 17 U. S. C. § 107, permits a court to excuse a putatively infringing use of copyrighted material when the circumstances surrounding the use make it "fair." In this Article, Professor ... -
Redesigning Cockpits: Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Consumer Policy on Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for law, Economics, and Business, 2014)This essay is an introduction to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy, on Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer. It emphasizes that consumer behavior can be greatly affected ... -
Redistributing Rape
(American Bar Association, Section of Criminal Justice, 2011)This article examines the theory posited in the article Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison regarding the problem of prison sexual violence and what can be done to correct it. The previous article describes the use ... -
Redo the Analysis from the Ground Up
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Reducing Obesity and Fostering Economic Development Through Farm to School: Analysis and Recommended Actions
(2014-03-18)Using Mississippi as a case study, this paper describes the potential for expanding farm to school and provides recommendations for state and local actions to encourage its growth. Part I provides a brief background of ...