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Affirmative Action and Stereotype Threat
(2015)This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of affirmative action (AA). In particular, we investigate whether affirmative action has a ”stereotype threat effect” – that is, whether AA cues a negative stereotype ... -
Affordable Convergence: “Reasonable Interpretation” and the Affordable Care Act
(Harvard Law School, 2012)The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, ... -
African Poverty
(Washington Law Review Association, 2012)African extreme poverty is probably a function (although not solely) of the balkanized post-colonial geopolitics of Africa. It is also probably a function (although not solely) of the income distribution generated by a ... -
After 9/11: Cities
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After Brown: What Would Martin Luther King Say?
(Lewis & Clark Law Review, 2008)The occasion of the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech at Lewis and Clark Law School, following on the heels of the Supreme Court’s rejection of two voluntary racial school integration plans, warrants revisiting the ... -
After Brown: What Would Martin Luther King Say?
(2008)The occasion of the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech at Lewis and Clark Law School, following on the heels of the Supreme Court's rejection of two voluntary racial school integration plans, warrants revisiting the ... -
After Gender: Tools for Progressives in a Shift from Sexual Domination to the Economic Family
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Against Kadijustiz: On the Negative Citation of Foreign Law
(Suffolk University Law School, 2015)In the arguments about the judicial citation of foreign law, judges are arguing about values. But they often do not acknowledge the values that they are debating or give specific rationales for why they prefer one value ... -
The Age of the Expert Advocate
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An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law
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Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey's Kiss-Off
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2008)In July 2002 the trustees of the Milton Hershey School Trust announced a plan to diversify the Trust's investment portfolio by selling the Trust's controlling interest in the Hershey Company. The Company's stock jumped ... -
Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2009)This article is the second 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, ... -
Alarmism Versus Moderation in Responding to the Rehnquist Court
(Indiana University School of Law, 2003)Symposium: Congressional Power in the Shadow of the Rehnquist Court: Strategies for the Future held at Indiana University Law School, February 1-2, 2002. -
Albert Hirschman's Hiding Hand
(2014)Albert Hirschman argued that planners in underdeveloped nations often benefit from what he called the Hiding Hand, which hides, and thus makes planners unable to anticipate, serious obstacles to development projects. The ... -
The Alien Tort Statute and Corporate Liability
(University of Pennsylvania, 2011)In 2010, the Second Circuit decided Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, holding that corporations are not proper defendants under the Alien Tort Statute. Invoking Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, the Second Circuit found that human ... -
All (Food) Politics is Local: Increasing Food Access through Local Government Action
(Harvard Law School, 2013)Our national and international food system has implications for a wide range of issues that are important across the political spectrum and include improving health outcomes, reducing environmental impacts, increasing ... -
Allocating Power within Agencies
(Yale Law School, 2013-07-17)Standard questions in the theory of administrative law involve the allocation of power among legislatures, courts, the President, and various types of agencies. These questions are often heavily informed by normative ...