Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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Environmental Protection and Cost-Benefit Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 2005) -
Environmentalists Lose Every Case
(Environmental Law Institute, 2009) -
Epstein is Smart, but Still Wrong
(Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005) -
The Equitable Dimension of Contract
(Suffolk University Law School, 2012)Contract theory has long been preoccupied with the common law. Contracts is taught in the first year of law school along with the other “common law subjects.” The rise of the modern view of contracts as involving mutually ... -
Equivocation and the Legal Conflict Over Religious Identity In Early Modern England
(1991)During the trial of the so-called Powder Men--Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament with the King, Queen, and heir apparent all in attendance-the King's Attorney General Sir Edward ... -
Essential Elements of Corporate Law
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2009)This article is the first 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, ... -
The Ethics of Nudging
(2014)This essay defends the following propositions. (1) It is pointless to object to choice architecture or nudging as such. Choice architecture cannot be avoided. Nature itself nudges; so does the weather; so do spontaneous ... -
Evaluating a Proposed Criminal Code
(1981) -
Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies
(Duke University School of Law, 2001) -
Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Response
(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
(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 ... -
Everything in its Right Place: Social Cooperation and Artist Compensation
(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
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010) -
Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
(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
(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 ... -
Excess-Pay Clawbacks
(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 ...