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The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2010)The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing debate about regulatory ... -
Waiting for Mifepristone
(2000)Physically, it is just a little white pill. But oh, what it could do: take abortion out of easily-identified clinics and disburse it to hospitals and doctor's offices, making what is so often called a "a private choice" ... -
Waiting to Exhale: Medical Marijuana and Its Uncertain Future
(1995)Therapeutic use of marijuana is a political, medical and moral issue that has provoked controversy throughout this century. On one side of the debate is the governments desire to prevent drug abuse and to make certain that ... -
War and International Law: Distinguishing the Military and Humanitarian Professions
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War for the Wrong Reasons: Lessons from Law
(2014)In Ethics for Enemies, Frances Kamm argues that, under certain conditions, it is mor-ally permissible for a state to launch a war for opportunistic reasons. We consider how law might shed light on Kamm’s argument. Part I ... -
War-Algorithm Accountability
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC), 2016)In this briefing report, we introduce a new concept — war algorithms — that elevates algorithmically-derived “choices” and “decisions” to a, and perhaps the, central concern regarding technical autonomy in war. We thereby ... -
Was Bush v. Gore a Human Rights Case?
(University of Minnesota Law School, 2008)The article discusses a court case on the Greek parliamentary election of 2004 wherein the Supreme Court of Greece decided on the contested election by ruling for a recalculation based on different rules. The ruling was ... -
Web Tactics
(Writers & Scholars International, 2009)Robert Faris and Jonathan Zittrain chart the highs and lows for free expression online in 2009: from the triumph over Green Dam to cyber attacks. -
The Web's Dark Energy
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The Welfare Effects of Metering Ties
(2015)Critics of current tying doctrine argue that metering ties can increase consumer welfare and total welfare without increasing output and that they generally increase both welfare measures. Contrary to those claims, we prove ... -
Western Europe vs. Religious Freedom
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WESTERN STATES MEDICAL AND OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE DOCTRINE CONCERNING FDA REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH
(2003)This paper will attempt to explain the current state of how commercial speech doctrine affects FDA regulation by looking closely to a recently decided case: Thompson v. Western States Medical. This case will then be used ... -
What "Design Copyright"?
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What About the Children? - FDA's Response to Pediatric Drug Testing
(2003)The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has played a critical role in the protection of human subjects in research. Most recently, FDA enacted an interim final rule regarding protection of children in clinical ... -
What an Originalist Would Understand "Corruption" to Mean
(California Law Review Inc., 2014)As important as "that" is "how." It is commonplace to say of the United States Congress that it is "corrupt." But it is critical, if we are to reform that corrupt institution, to say how it is corrupt. In what sense? ... -
What Can Your Food Do For You? (And Should FDA Let It?): An Overview of the Regulatory Regime (or Lack Thereof) Surrounding Functional Foods
(2006)Foods that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, otherwise known as “functional foods,†may hold the key to better short- and long-term health for many Americans. In recent years, ...