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    • Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Response 

      Kaplow, Louis (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 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (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 

      Westover, Melanie (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 

      Gaudry, Katherine (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 

      Belsky, Leah; Kahr, Byron; Berkelhammer, Max; Benkler, Yochai (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 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L.; Sauter, Molly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)

    • Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services 

      Bates, Samantha L; Bowers, John; Greenstein, Shane M; Weinstock, Jordi Portell; Zittrain, Jonathan L. (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 

      Stephenson, Matthew Caleb (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 

      Zachary, Jennifer L. (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 

      Sheu, Wendy (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 

      Gorlach, Igor (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 ...

    • An Examination of Strict Criminal Liability Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938: Is It Time For Change? 

      Holt, Breena L. (1999)
      Food and drug violations have been largely governed by a strict liability standard since the nineteenth century. Use of this standard in connection with criminal sanctions has generally been defended on the grounds that ...

    • Examining Hepatitis C Virus Treatment Access: A Review of Select State Medicaid Fee-For-Service and Managed Care Programs 

      Greenwald, Robert; Fullmer, James S; Wittkop, Kellen Nicole; Shaw, Stephen (Harvard Law School, 2015)

    • Excess-Pay Clawbacks 

      Fried, Jesse M.; Shilon, Nitzan (University of Iowa, College of Law, 2011)
      We explain why firms should have a policy requiring directors to recover “excess pay” – payouts to executives resulting from an error in compensation metrics (such as inflated earnings). We then analyze the clawback policies ...

    • Exclusion and Property Rules in the Law of Nuisance 

      Smith, Henry Edward (Virginia Law Review Association, 2004)
      This Article offers a theory of nuisance law based on information costs. Like trespass, much of the law of nuisance relies on a strategy of exclusion in which rights are defined using low-cost signals like boundary crossings ...

    • The Exclusionary Rule Redux--Again 

      Weinreb, Lloyd Lobell (2010)
      The exclusionary rule itself is not very complicated: if the police obtain evidence by means that violate a person’s rights under the Fourth Amendment, the evidence is not admissible against that person in a criminal trial. ...

    • Exclusive Dealing and Market Foreclosure: Further Experimental Results 

      Landeo, Claudia M.; Spier, Kathryn E. (Mohr Siebeck, 2012)
      This paper reports further experimental results on exclusive dealing contracts. We extend Landeo and Spier's (2009) work by studying Naked Exclusion in a strategic environment that involves a four-player, two-stage game. ...

    • Exclusive Dealing: Before, Bork, and Beyond 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric Bennett (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      Antitrust scholars have come to accept the basic ideas about exclusive dealing that Bork articulated in The Antitrust Paradox. Indeed, they have even extended his list of reasons why exclusive dealing can promote economic ...

    • Executive Defense of Congressional Acts 

      Meltzer, Daniel J. (Duke University School of Law, 2012)
      This Article explores the appropriate role of the executive branch in enforcing and defending federal statutes that the president, or executive-branch officials, believe may well be unconstitutional, but for whose ...

    • Executive Pensions 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Jackson, Robert (University of Iowa, College of Law, 2005)
      This paper presents evidence of the extent to which omitting the value of pension benefits has undermined the accuracy of existing estimates of executive pay, its variability, and its sensitivity to performance.We study ...