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Can the United States Afford a "No-Fault" System of Compensation for Medical Injury?
(Duke University School of Law, 1997)One of the key issues separating US critics of a no-fault alternative to the tort system for compensating victims of medical injury from supporters is its anticipated cost. Results from a study are presented that estimate ... -
THE CAPITAL CRISIS IN BIOTECH AND THE INVISIBLE COSTS OF REGULATION
(1995)This paper argues that while the FDA approval process may be trivial in terms of geologic time, it is an eternity when viewed from the perspective of the biotech industry. A delay of even a few months can mean life or death ... -
Capital Gains and Ordinary Deductions: Negative Income Tax for the Wealthy
(The Boston College Law School, 1971) -
A Capital Market, Corporate Law Approach to Creditor Conduct
(University of Michigan, Dept. of Law, 2013)The problem of creditor conduct in distressed firms — for which policymakers ought to have the economically-sensible repositioning of the distressed firm as a central goal — has vexed courts for decades. Because courts ... -
Capital Markets and Financial Politics: Preferences and Institutions
(Oxford University Press, 2012)For capital markets to function, political institutions must support capitalism in general and the capitalism of financial markets in particular. Yet capital markets’ shape, support, and extent are often contested in the ... -
Capital Punishment and Contingency
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2012)This book review of David Garland’s “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition,” assesses Garland’s contributions both to the literature about the American death penalty and to the broader debate ... -
THE CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: A REVIEW OF PUBLIC INFORMATION ON THE SAFETY OF THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE, ESPECIALLY AS IT IS BEING MANDATED FOR NEWBORNS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
(2000)Based on an evaluation of publicly available information and written from a consumer's perspective, this paper will present some of the known problems and most contested issues surrounding the safety of the hepB vaccine, ... -
Carbohydrate Nutrient Content Claims: Proposals for FDA Action and Lessons for Regulatory Response to Emerging Consumer Trends
(2006)This paper considers the recent experience of the low-carbohydrate trend in nutrition. During the early years of this decade, thousands of new products claiming to be low in carbohydrates appeared on supermarket shelves ... -
Carbophobia: The Dieting Public's Obsession with Carbohydrates and the U.S. Government's Response
(2003)This paper examines the recent low-carbohydrate diet craze, and analyzes the reaction of the United States government to new scientific evidence potentially indicating that the government’s current food ... -
Cardiac Catheter Reuse in An Era of Reform: Cost-Efficiency and Regulatory Policy in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty
(1994)Cardiac catheters have become an essential element of current cardiovascular practice with several hundred thousand used each year in both diagnostic and angioplasty procedures. Uke many other disposable devices they are ... -
Carrots & Sticks: How VCs Induce Entrepreneurial Teams to Sell Startups
(Cornell Law School, 2013)Venture capitalists (VCs) usually exit their investments in a startup via a trade sale. But the entrepreneurial team – the startup’s founder, other executives, and common shareholders – may resist a trade sale. Such ... -
A Case at a Crossroad: United States ex rel. Franklin v. Parke-Davis and the Intersection of Regulating Promotion of Off-Label Uses and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
(2004)In United States ex rel. Franklin v. Parke-Davis, a former employee of a pharmaceutical manufacturing company alleged violations of the federal False Claims Act stemming from the company’s promotion of ... -
A Case for Another Case Method
(Vanderbilt Law School, 2007) -
A Case for Another Case Method
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The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2005)This paper reconsiders the basic allocation of power between boards and shareholders in publicly traded companies with dispersed ownership. U.S. corporate law has long precluded shareholders from initiating any changes in ... -
The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry
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The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993
(University of Pennsylvania, 2006)Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of ...