Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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Public Deliberation, Affirmative Action, and the Supreme Court
(California Law Review Inc., 1996) -
Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization
(2010)We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Beginning with an initial set of over five million blogs, we used social network analysis to identify a highly active ‘Discussion ... -
Public Goods and the Distribution of Income
(Elsevier, 2006)This article addresses conceptual issues concerning the distributive incidence of public goods. Solutions depend on the specific purposes for asking the question of distributive incidence—notably, assessing the extent to ... -
Public/Private Dichotomy: Political Disagreement and Academic Repudiation
(University of Pennsylvania, 1982) -
Publicity and the Courts of Classical Athens
(Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2012)This Essay explores the role that public legal proceedings played in the classical Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. The courts in classical Athens enjoyed a larger market share of cultural ... -
Pursuing Inclusive Higher Education in Egypt and Beyond through the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Cogitatio, 2018-12-06)Inclusive higher education is elusive for students with disabilities, especially in developing countries. The adoption and rapid ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides, ... -
Putting Stockholders First, Not the First-Filed Complaint
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2013)The prevalence of settlements in class and derivative litigation challenging mergers and acquisitions in which the only payment is to plaintiffs' attorneys suggests potential systemic dysfunction arising from the increased ... -
The Quantitative Empirics of Redistricting Litigation: Knowledge, Threats to Knowledge, and the Need for Less Districting
(Yale Law School, 2011)The experience of the past 50 years has taught us important lessons about the advancement in, but also the ultimate limits of, the quantitative empirics of redistricting. I provide a bird's eye view of the state of ... -
Quantum of Silence: Inaction and Jus ad Bellum
(2019)In this paper, we examine the actual and potential roles of silence as an element of jus ad bellum treaty law and customary international law. By silence, we mean a lack of a publicly discernible response either to conduct ... -
The Questionable Case for Using Auctions to Select Lead Counsel
(2014-09-30)This Article analyzes the shortcomings of using auctions for selecting lead counsel in class action cases. In contrast to what proponents of auctions suggest, the outcome of an auction is likely to diverge considerably ... -
R X C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility, and Transparency of Assumptions
(Royal Statistical Society, 2009)Despite its potential pitfalls, ecological inference is an unavoidable part of some quantitative settings, including US voting rights litigation. In such applications, the analyst will typically encounter two-way tables ... -
R&D Tax Incentives: Growth Panacea or Budget Trojan Horse?
(New York University Law School, 2016)Research and development (R&D) activity has long held a privileged place in the U.S. income tax system and in policy debates. The premises for R&D tax incentives, however, are grounded in theory regarding a market failure ... -
Race and Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options
(2011)The Conference, Race & Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re‐Assessing the Facts, Re‐Thinking the Policy Options, took place January 28‐29, 2011, at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA -
Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-Racial Conflict
(University of Pennsylvania, 2003) -
Race Separatism in the Family: More on the Transracial Adoption Debate
(1995)Some twenty-five years ago a trial court in Virginia upheld the state ban on interracial marriage, reasoning that God created different races and, accordingly, that it was natural to maintain racial purity, and unnatural ... -
The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions
(2009)This article addresses the issue of Racial Disproportionality in child welfare - the disproportionate representation of black children in the foster care system as compared to their representation in the general population. ... -
The Radio and the Internet
(2008)