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Decoding the Market's Reaction to Settlement Announcements
(2015)This study examines defendant stock price returns on the day preceding, the day of, and the day following announcements of settlements in various types of litigation from 2009 through 2014. I hypothesized that defendant ... -
Deconstructing the Regulatory Facade: Why Confused Consumers Feed their Pets Ring Dings and Krispy Kremes
(2006)Americans own more than 130 million cats and dogs and spend over $12 billion per year on commercial pet foods. The commercial pet food industry faces minimal substantive regulation, despite navigating several layers of ... -
Defensive Localism: A View of the Field from the Field
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Deference and Due Process
(2015)In the textbooks, procedural due process is a strictly judicial enterprise; although substantive entitlements are created by legislative and executive action, it is for courts to decide independently what process the ... -
Deferred Compensation Revisited
(Tax Analysts and Advocates, 2007)The tax rules governing deferred compensation, codified at section 409A, are harsh and complex. The rules are focused on the least important policy considerations and overlook the most important. Professors Halperin and ... -
Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2016)The original Internet design combined technical, organizational, and cultural characteristics that decentralized power along diverse dimensions. Decentralized institutional, technical, and market power maximized freedom ... -
Delaware and Washington as Corporate Lawmakers
(Delaware Law School of Widener College, 2009)American corporate law scholars have long focused on state-to-state jurisdictional competition as a powerful engine in the making of American corporate law. Yet much corporate law is made in Washington, D.C. Federal ... -
Delaware Law as Lingua Franca: Theory and Evidence
(University of Chicago Press, 2012)Why would a firm incorporate in Delaware rather than in its home state? Prior explanations have focused on the inherent features of Delaware corporate law, as well as the positive network externalities created by so many ... -
Delaware's Choice
(2015)This Article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations, and argues that the alternative of "ineffective" staggered boards would have been more desirable, as a policy matter, ... -
Delaware's Competition
(Harvard Law School, 2003)One of corporate law's enduring issues has been the extent to which state-to-state competitive pressures on Delaware make for a race to the top or the bottom. States, or at least some of them, are said to compete with their ... -
Delaware's Politics
(Ames Foundation at the Harvard Law School, The, 2005)Delaware makes the corporate law governing most large American corporations. Since Washington can take away any, or all, of that lawmaking, a deep conception of American corporate law should show how, when, and where ... -
Delaware's Shrinking Half-Life
(Stanford Law School, 2009)A revisionist consensus among corporate law academics has begun to coalesce that, after a century of academic thinking to the contrary, states do not compete head-to-head on an ongoing basis for chartering revenues, leaving ... -
Delegating to Enemies
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2012)An axiom of institutional design is known as the ally principle: All else equal, voters, legislators, or other principals will rationally delegate more authority to agents who share their preferences (“allies”). The ally ... -
Delegating to Enemies
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2012)An axiom of institutional design is known as the ally principle: all else equal, voters, legislators or other principals will rationally delegate more authority to agents who share their preferences (“allies”). The ally ... -
The Delegation Lottery
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2006)Replying to Matthew C. Stephenson, Legislative Allocation of Delegated Power: Uncertainty, Risk and the Choice Between Agencies and Courts, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1035 (2006). Matthew Stephenson models "the decision calculus ... -
Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift
(2000)How does jury deliberation affect the pre-deliberation judgments of individual jurors? In this paper we make progress on that question by reporting the results of a study of over 500 mock juries composed of over 3000 jury ... -
The Delicate Dance of Immersion and Insulation: The Politicization of the FDA Commissioner
(2003)The Food and Drug Administration never has been and never will be completely insulated from politics; it exists and operates as an integral part of the federal government in Washington, DC, not in a vacuum. Nevertheless, ... -
Democracy and Corruption
(1996)I was asked to speak about corruption and democracy. I have a long history of concern about that relationship. The subject of corruption and democracy is best broken into three separate areas. First, there are questions ... -
Democracy-Based Resistance to a Constitutional Right of Social Citizenship: A Comment on Forbath
(Fordham Law Review, 2001)