Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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Letting Shareholders Set the Rules
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2006)U.S. corporate law has long denied shareholders the power to make rules-of-the-game decisions - that is, decisions to change the company's charter or state of incorporation. In an article published last year, The Case for ... -
Leveraging the Social Determinants of Health: What Works?
(Public Library of Science, 2016)We summarized the recently published, peer-reviewed literature that examined the impact of investments in social services or investments in integrated models of health care and social services on health outcomes and health ... -
Lex Loci Delictus and Global Economic Welfare: Spinozzi v. ITT Sheraton Corp.
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2007) -
Liberal Constitutionalism, Property Rights, and the Assault on Poverty
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Libertarian Administrative Law
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)In recent years, several judges on the nation’s most important regulatory court -- the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- have given birth to libertarian administrative law, in the form ... -
Libertarian Panics
(Rutgers School of Law, 2005)In a standard analysis, the history of civil liberties is characterized by a series of security panics. A range of mechanisms - cognitive heuristics and biases, various forms of cascading and herding, conformity and ... -
Libertarian Paternalism
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Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron
(2003)The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of choice. Often people’s ... -
Likelihood Ratio Tests and Legal Decision Rules
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Various legal decision-making criteria can be formulated as likelihood ratio tests, wherein liability, prohibition, or other outcomes are associated with evidence strength exceeding a posited threshold. Stating rules in ... -
The Limits of Quantification
(California Law Review Inc., 2015-01-15)The problem of nonquantifiability is a recurrent one in both public policy and ordinary life. Much of the time, we cannot quantify the benefits of potential courses of action, or the costs, or both, and we must nonetheless ... -
The Limits of the Preventive State
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The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013)We persuaded entities conducting two legal aid programs designed to provide evidence regarding a civil right to counsel to allow us to randomize which potential clients would receive offers of traditional attorney-client ... -
Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan
(2012)Using regression and factor analysis with prefecture‐level data, I ask whether Japanese in communities with high levels of “social capital” more readily settle their disputes out of court. Although studies of litigation ... -
Lobbyists as Imperfect Agents: Implications for Public Policy in a Pluralist System
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2010)Interest group pluralism presumes that public policy outcomes are determined principally through a contest for influence among organized pressure groups. Most interest groups, however, do not represent themselves in this ... -
Local Nets on a Global Network: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem
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Local Wisdom
(2012)