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Seeing, Bearing, and Sharing Risk: Social Policy Challenges for Our Time
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Selected International Aspects of Fundamental Tax Reform Proposals
(1997)Over the past several years, there have been a series of proposals to replace the U.S. income tax. The 1996 presidential primaries saw one major candidate, Steve Forbes, espouse the virtues of a flat tax. Another candidate, ... -
Selection Effects in Constitutional Law
(Virginia Law Review Association, 2005)The standard consequentialist analysis of constitutional law focuses on the incentives that shape the behavior of government officials and other constitutional actors. Incentive-based accounts justify elections as a means ... -
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: A Critical Look at the Antidepressants and an Assessment of Potential Liability Faced by their Manufacturers
(2003)Mental health is a growing and lucrative aspect of health-care. Among the ways of treating mental illness is through use of antidepressant medications, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). This paper ... -
Self-Defeating Proposals: Ackerman on Emergency Powers
(Fordham Law Review, 2006)This paper responds to Bruce Ackerman's recent book on emergency powers (After the Next Attack: Emergency Powers in an Age of Terrorism). Ackerman stumbles into a methodological pitfall by offering a self-defeating proposal: ... -
Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)This paper develops a model of a self-fulfilling credit market freeze and uses it to study alternative governmental responses to such a crisis. We study an economy in which operating firms are interdependent, with their ... -
Self-Help and the Nature of Property
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Self-Historicism
(TU Law Digital Commons, 2002)Among the contributors to this symposium, I may be the person with the longest acquaintance with Sandy Levinson. I want to begin, therefore, with a recollection of the period of my earliest contacts with Sandy - a recollection ... -
Self-Proving Affidavits and Formalism in Wills Adjudication
(1985)This Article makes a small effort toward an alternate explanation of formalism in wills adjudication. It is prompted by an odd and rather perverse line of cases from Texas. The cases are interesting not for their content ... -
Self-Regulation in the Cosmetic Industry: A Necessary Reality or a Cosmetic Illusion?
(2006)The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act brought the cosmetic industry under the regulatory jurisdiction of the FDA. However, the confluence of federal administrative budgetary constraints, historical conditions of the cosmetic ... -
SELLING ORGANS: THE ANSWER TO THE BURGEONING ORGAN DEFICIT
(2002)Despite the outwardly strong controversy of compensating donors for their organs, it is apparent that, at the very least, the federal government, the primary entity that can effect change and ameliorate the lack of supply ... -
Seminole Rock's Domain
(George Washington Law Review, 2011)In carrying out their duties, federal administrative agencies must often interpret statutes and regulations that are not entirely clear. Sometimes an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous legal text may not seem like the ... -
The Senate, the Constitution, and the Confirmation Process
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Sense and Nonsense About Customary International Law: A Response to Professors Bradley and Goldsmith
(Fordham Law Review, 1997) -
Sentry at the Gate: A History of the CDC’s Regulation of Biological Agents
(2004)This paper charts the history of the CDC’s role in the regulation of biological agents, from its origins in the early 1970s as a monitor of physical package security to its current position as a barrier ... -
Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2011)The Supreme Court applies the structural provisions of the Constitution by relying on an overarching framework of “separation of powers.” Its cases reflect two distinct visions of the doctrine. Functionalist decisions ... -
The Settlement Conference as a Dispute Resolution option in Special Education
(Ohio State University College of Law, 2014) -
The Shadow Takings Doctrine
(2015)The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause provides “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Historically, the Clause protected landowners against appropriation by the state and against ...