Browsing Harvard Law School by Title
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The Effective Enjoyment of Rights
(German Law Journal, 2011) -
The Effects of False Claims Act Whistleblowers on the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2006)The whistleblower (or “qui tamâ€) provisions of the False Claims Act allow private citizens to bring suit on behalf of the government against individuals or corporations who have submitted ... -
Election Timing and Public Policy
(Now Publishers, 2011)There are nearly half a million elected officials in American local governments, and the timing of local elections varies enormously even within the same state. Some local elections are held simultaneously with major federal ... -
Eleventh Amendment and Other Sovereign Immunity Doctrines: Congressional Imposition of Suit Upon the States
(University of Pennsylvania, 1978) -
Eleventh Amendment and Other Sovereign Immunity Doctrines: Part One
(University of Pennsylvania, 1978) -
Eliminating Earmarks: Why the Congressional Line Item Vote Can Succeed Where the Presidential Line Item Veto Failed
(2009-12-05)Congressional earmarking is an issue of growing concern in the United States. Although it currently accounts for a small percentage of federal expenditures, recent trends indicate that such pork-barrel spending will soon ... -
Ellickson's Extraordinary Look at the Ordinary
(William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2009)It is often said that the mark of great work, and a great theory in particular, is that it seems obvious in retrospect. And among such theories, some of the most impressive are those that aim to explain not just the problems ... -
The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards
(2009)Researchers and shareholder advisers have devoted much attention to developing metrics for assessing the governance of public companies around the world. These important and influential efforts, we argue, suffer from a ... -
The Elusive Silver Bullet: FDA Failures, Rejected New Drug Applications, and the Search for an Obesity Cure
(2011)Over the past forty-five years, America has fallen victim to an obesity epidemic, affecting more than thirty percent of American adults. If the incidence of obesity continues at current rates, an estimated forty-percent ... -
Emergencies and Democratic Failure
(Virginia Law Review Association, 2006)Critics of emergency measures such as the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 invoke the Carolene Products framework, which directs courts to apply strict scrutiny to laws and executive actions that target political or ... -
The Emerging Field of Race-Based Genetic Research: Can We Trust It?
(2006)In June of 2005, the Food and Drug Administration approved a heart disease drug named BiDil exclusively for African Americans, provoking a fiery debate among medical researchers, sociologists, and legal scholars. On the ... -
Empirical Comparative Law
(Annual Reviews, 2015)I review the empirical comparative law literature with an emphasis on quantitative work. After situating the field and surveying its main applications to date, I turn to methodological issues. I discuss at length the ... -
Empirically Informed Regulation
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)In recent years, social scientists have been incorporating empirical findings about human behavior into economic models. These findings offer important insights for thinking about regulation and its likely consequences. ... -
The Empiricist Strikes Back
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Employment Law as Labor Law
(2008)Seventy years after Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the scholarly consensus is that American labor law has become ossified. As I have argued elsewhere, however, while the NLRA is undoubtedly ... -
Empowering the City: London/New York
(Architectural League of New York, 2010) -
Empowering Women: A Feminist Argument for Over-the-Counter Sale of Oral Contraceptives
(2005)The oral contraceptive pill, having been on the market for 45 years, should be sold over-the-counter. There is no longer any valid reason for FDA to maintain the prescription status of the drug. First, numerous studies ... -
Enabling Employee Choice: A Structural Approach to the Rules of Union Organizing
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2010)The proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has led to fierce debate over how best to ensure employees a choice on the question of unionization. The debate goes to the core of our federal system of labor law. Each of the ...