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Equivocation and the Legal Conflict Over Religious Identity In Early Modern England
(1991)During the trial of the so-called Powder Men--Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament with the King, Queen, and heir apparent all in attendance-the King's Attorney General Sir Edward ... -
Essential Elements of Corporate Law
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2009)This article is the first chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, ... -
Establishing a No-Fault Compensation System to Replace Failure-to-Warn Product Liability Claims Against Prescription Drug Manufacturers
(2014-03-18)In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which established a no-fault compensation system to provide money to people who are injured by vaccines. The major impetus behind this Act was the soaring ... -
Estimating Inequality with Tax Data: The Problem of Pass-Through Income
(2015)In recent decades, a growing share of U.S. business income has been taxed on a pass-through basis. When taxed on a pass-through basis, business income is attributed to a firm’s owners and taxed to them as individual income, ... -
The Ethical and Regulatory Problems in the Stem Cell Scandal
(2006)The recent stem cell scandal of fabrication of two papers published in Science by Dr. Hwang Woo Suk shocked the world and devastated the South Korean society. Investigations conducted by the South Korean government have ... -
The Ethics of Nudging
(2014)This essay defends the following propositions. (1) It is pointless to object to choice architecture or nudging as such. Choice architecture cannot be avoided. Nature itself nudges; so does the weather; so do spontaneous ... -
Evaluating a Proposed Criminal Code
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Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies
(Duke University School of Law, 2001) -
Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Response
(American Economic Association, 2005)Response by Louis Kaplow on the commentary, "Evaluation Public Goods and Regulations" by Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W. H. Parry, and Roberton C. Williams III. -
Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce
(National Tax Association, 1999)Current tax law--and the current technical architecture of the Internet--make it difficult to enforce sales taxes on most Internet commerce. This has generated considerable policy debate. In this paper, we analyze the costs ... -
An Evaluation of the Legal Responses to America's Obesity Epidemic
(2004)This paper will examine the recent legal action surrounding one of America's major public health problems; obesity. The discussion begins with a quick presentation of information regarding our nation's obesity epidemic. ... -
Evergreening: A Common Practice to Protect New Drugs
(2011)Exclusivity periods serve as an incentive for pharmaceutical companies to engage in the costly and risky activities underlying drug discovery and development. Patents offer one form of exclusivity. Other exclusivities are ... -
Everything in its Right Place: Social Cooperation and Artist Compensation
(Student Editors of the University of Michigan Law School, 2010)The music industry’s crisis response to the Internet has been the primary driver of U.S. copyright policy for over a decade. The core institutional response has been to increase the scope of copyright and the use of ... -
Everything You Need to Know about Wikileaks
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
(2018)This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the ... -
Evidentiary Standards and Information Acquisition in Public Law
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This article considers the type of evidence that an overseer (e.g., a court) should require before allowing a government agent to take some proposed action. The court can increase agency research incentives by prohibiting ... -
The Evolution and Future of the Medicare Chemotherapy Concession
(2004)Cancer is a life threatening disease that affects thousands of Americans each year. Chemotherapy is one of the most effective treatments for the disease, but its prohibitive cost makes it all but unavailable to those without ... -
The Evolution of the Modern Snack Tax Bill: From World War I to the War Against Obesity
(2006)This paper offers a historical perspective on soft drinks and snack taxes in the United States in light of recent legislative snack tax proposals that have been introduced in at least twenty states since an obesity crisis ... -
The Evolving Regulation of Internet Pharmacies
(2014-03-18)This paper follows the rise of the Internet drug sale industry and the response to the trend by regulators, policymakers, and private companies. After discussing the existing laws and their enforcement to police rogue ...