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The Influence of Antitakeover Statutes on Incorporation Choice: Evidence on the "Race" Debate and Antitakeover Overreaching
(University of Pennsylvania, 2002)Commentators have long debated whether competition among states for corporate charters represents a race to the top or a race to the bottom. Race-to-the-top advocates have recently gained ground in this debate on the basis ... -
The Influence of Catholic Social Doctrine on Human Rights
(2013)In the history of Catholic social doctrine, surely one of the most important developments has been the Church’s assimilation of what Pope Benedict XVI has called the ‘true conquests of the Enlightenment’.1 Nowhere is ... -
Information Acquisition and Institutional Design
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Information and the Aim of Adjudication: Truth or Consequences?
(2015)Adjudication is fundamentally about information, usually concerning individuals’ previous or proposed behavior. Legal system design is challenging because information ordinarily is costly and imperfect. This Article analyzes ... -
Informational Regulation and Informational Standing: Akins and Beyond
(University of Pennsylvania, 2014-09-18)This Article discusses informational regulation and informational standing. It outlines the rise of informational regulation as an alternative to government command-and-control and offers a discussion of why and when ... -
Informed Trading and False Signaling with Open Market Repurchases
(California Law Review Inc., 2005)Public companies in the United States and elsewhere increasingly use open market stock buybacks, rather than dividends, to distribute cash to shareholders. Academic commentators have emphasized the possible benefits of ... -
Insider Trading Regulation in Japan
(Edward Elgar, 2013)The U.S.-controlled occupation imposed on Japan in the late 1940s an American-style securities statute. The U.S. statute did not ban insider trading at the time, and neither did the new Japanese law. Not until the 1960s ... -
Insider Trading via the Corporation
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Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress
(Duke University School of Law, 2001) -
Institutional Flip-Flops
(2015)Many people vigorously defend particular institutional judgments on such issues as the filibuster, recess appointments, executive privilege, federalism, and the role of the courts. These judgments are defended publicly ... -
Institutions and Indirectness in Intellectual Property
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The Institutions of Corporate Governance
(2004)In this review piece, I outline the institutions of corporate governance decision-making in the large public firm in the wealthy West. By corporate governance, I mean the relationships at the top of the firm - the board ... -
Instrumentalisms
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Integrating Approaches to Privacy Across the Research Lifecycle: When Is Information Purely Public?
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2015)On September 24-25, 2013, the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University held a workshop titled "Integrating Approaches to Privacy across the Research Data Lifecycle." Over forty leading experts ... -
Intellectual Debt
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-11-17)In this chapter, law and technology scholar Jonathan Zittrain warns of the danger of relying on answers for which we have no explanations. There are benefits to utilising solutions discovered through trial and error rather ... -
Intellectual Property and the Organization of Information Production
(Elsevier Science, 2002)This paper analyzes an area that economic analysis of intellectual property has generally ignored, namely, the effects of intellectual property rights on the relative desirability of various strategies for organizing ... -
Intellectual Property Versus Prizes: A Policy-Lever Analysis
(2010)Most developed nations rely on intellectual property as one of their primary tools to promote private investments in R&D. An alternative approach is for the government to reward innovators with a prize instead of an ... -
Intentional Diminishment, the Non-Identity Problem, and Legal Liability
(University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2008)This Article, lying at the intersection of law and bioethics, examines whether it is wrongful to use assisted reproductive technology to intentionally create disabled children and whether legal liability should attach to ...