Browsing Harvard Law School by Title
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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 ... -
The Ends of Privacy
(The University of Chicago Law School and Gifford Combs, 2015) -
Engineering an Election
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English is not Enough: The Language of Food and Drug Labels
(2002)Food and drug labels must respond to the needs of the increasing linguistic minority population in the United States. Currently, the FDA only requires that food and drug labels be in English. Due to the growing segment of ... -
The Enlarged Republic - Then and Now
(N Y R e V, Inc, 2009) -
Ensuring a Consistent Supply of Anthrax Vaccine
(2002)During the recent anthrax attacks, the country's supply of anthrax vaccine was dangerously low. The reasons for this were (1) the failure of the FDA, the Defense Department, and its contractor, BioPort Corporation, to plan ... -
Entrenching Good Government Reforms
(2011)Those concerned with enumerated powers, the Tenth Amendment, and limited governance have many questions about current trends in U.S. governance: Has the federal government grown too large? Is it doing too much? Has it ...