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Regulating Bankers' Pay
(Georgetown University Law Center, 2010)This paper seeks to make three contributions to understanding how banks’ executive pay has produced incentives for excessive risk-taking and how such pay should be reformed. First, although there is now wide recognition ... -
Regulating Cochlear Implants: The Legal Response to a Scientific and Cultural Revolution
(2003)This paper is a case study on the cochlear implant device. The inquiry will explore the important aspects of the device's intended use, its legal regulation, and its moral impact. Through this case study I hope to illustrate ... -
Regulating Food and Drug Companies Privately: A View of Lanham Act Cases Brought Against FDA-Regulated Products
(2001)The Lanham Act provides a flexible self-help remedy to food and drug companies that are harmed by unfair competition in the marketplace. But is it desirable for private litigation to become the de facto regulation of the ... -
Regulating Homeopathic Drugs: Pragmatic Solutions for the Food and Drug Administration
(1999)Despite the growth of both the use of homeopathic drugs and the homeopathic drug industry, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not altered its regulatory scheme for homeopathic drugs. As a result, homeopathic drugs ... -
Regulating Internalities
(Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2015)This paper offers a framework for regulating internalities. Using a simple economic model, we provide four principles for designing and evaluating behaviorally-motivated policy. We then outline rules for determining which ... -
REGULATING MAMMOGRAMS
(1998)Mammography is widely used as a cancer detection device; unfortunately, it is often misused or performed inadequately. The need for proper supervision and regulation is of a concern to every woman. -
Regulating Political Risks
(TU Law Digital Commons, 2011)This is a response to Bruce Ackerman’s Tanner Lectures, “The Decline and Fall of the American Republic,” delivered at Princeton University on April 7-9, 2010. I suggest a framework for clarifying and evaluating Ackerman’s ... -
Regulating Risks after ATA
(2001)Whitman v. American Trucking Association was one of the most eagerly awaited regulatory decisions in many years. But the Court’s understated, steady, lawyerly opinion was a bit of an anticlimax, representing a return to ... -
Regulating Search Engines: Taking Stock And Looking Ahead
(2006)Since the creation of the first pre-Web Internet search engines in the early 1990s, search engines have become almost as important as email as a primary online activity. Arguably, search engines are among the most important ... -
Regulating the Export of Unapproved Drugs
(1995)Prior to 1986, it was not possible under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetics Act to export drugs which did not have FDA approval. The law was changed by the Drug Export Amendments Act of 1986 after nearly a decade of debate. ... -
Regulating Transgenic "Pharm" Plants: Pre-Commercialization Review and Post-Commercialization Monitoring
(2004)This manuscript presents an analysis of the regulation of transgenic plants that are engineered to express pharmaceutical or industrial products (referred to throughout as “pharm†plants). ... -
Regulation as Delegation
(2015)In diverse areas – from retirement savings, to fuel economy, to prescription drugs, to consumer credit, to food and beverage consumption – government makes personal decisions for us or helps us make what it sees as better ... -
Regulation in a Multisectored Financial Services Industry: An Exploratory Essay
(1999)This Article reviews differences in regulatory structure across sectors of the financial services industry in the United States and then explores the difficulties these differences pose to our current system of regulation ... -
The Regulation of Animal Welfare in Food Production
(2005)This paper surveys the various ways in which we choose to regulate, or could choose to regulate, the treatment of animals in food production. “Regulation†is broadly defined to encompass any ... -
The Regulation of Drug Manufacturing Changes: Past, Present and Foreign
(1997)This paper examines the history of FDA regulation of manufacturing supplements for drugs, summarizes the current equivalent regulations of the European Union (EU), and concludes by discussing some current proposals for ... -
Regulation of Fat Content in Food: Recent History and Cultural Commentary
(2006)Fat content in food has been one of the most hotly contested areas of nutrition labeling. This paper traces the changes in fat content labeling requirements for packaged food from the optional disclosure system in place ... -
Regulation of Genetically Engineered Food Products: A Market-Oriented Perspective
(1995)Only twenty years after the landmark Asilomar meeting where scientists discussed the opportunities and possible risks presented by the ability to transfer DNA from one organism to another,' bioengineered products have moved ... -
Regulation of Human Tissue for Transplantation
(1997)Historically the Food and Drug Administration has not regulated human tissues for transplantation, but with the pervasive scourge of AIDS and widespread public concern about preventing its transmission, pressure has mounted ... -
The Regulation of Pharmaceutical Compounding and the Determination of Need: Balancing Access and Autonomy with Patient Safety
(2004)Pharmaceutical compounding, the creation and dispensing of custom-made medications, is the root of the pharmacy profession often symbolized by the mortar and pestle. The practice involves mixing, measuring, and making safe, ... -
THE REGULATION OF SPORTS PRODUCTS AS DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: SHOULD THE FDA HAVE STRICTER REQUIREMENTS?
(2003)Since the Food and Drug Administration (“FDAâ€) has control over the regulation of dietary supplements, this paper discusses whether the current regulation is sufficient to guard the safety ...