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    • The Keynote Papers and the Current Financial Crisis 

      Coates, John (Institute of Professional Accounting, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2009)
      One hesitates to write history as it happens, or to draw policy lessons from current events. The conference took place in May 2008 - after the government-assisted takeover of Bear Stearns but before a capital market downturn ...

    • Keynote: The International Information Society 

      Lessig, Lawrence (2004)

    • The Killer Precedent for Today's Decision 

      Elhauge, Einer Richard (New Republic, 2012)

    • Kiva.org: Crowd-Sourced Microfinance & Cooperation in Group Lending 

      Hartley, Scott (2010-03-30)
      At the end of 2008 Kiva.org announced the creation of “Lending Teams,” or cohesive open or closed membership groups established and categorized according to scope. These Lending Teams introduce forms of cooperative many-to-one ...

    • Knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

      Glendon, Mary Ann (2014-10-01)

    • La Corte Penal Internacional Fue Una Mala Idea 

      Kennedy, David W. (Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2005)

    • Labor Law Renewal 

      Sachs, Benjamin Ian (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2007)
      This essay challenges the conventional wisdom that American labor law has reached a dead end. I argue that the dysfunctionality of the National Labor Relations Act has led not to "ossification" - as many believe - but to ...

    • The Last Treatise: Project and Person (Reflections on Martti Koskenniemi's "From Apology to Utopia") 

      Kennedy, David W. (German Law Journal, 2006)
      Martti Koskenniemi’s From Apology to Utopia is the most significant late 20th century English language monograph in the field of international law, and it is terrific to see it re-issued. The book offers a comprehensive ...

    • Law and Economics in Japan 

      Ramseyer, J. Mark (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law, 2011)
      Although law & economics scholarship has grown rapidly in recent years, Japanese scholars (with prominent exceptions, to be sure) have embraced the approach less enthusiastically than their U.S. peers. I explore some ...

    • The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Jackson, Robert J. (Harvard Law School, 2012)
      The Securities and Exchange Commission is currently considering a rulemaking petition that advocates tightening the rules under the Williams Act, which regulates the disclosure of large blocks of stock in public companies. ...

    • Law and Economics: Realism or Democracy? 

      Smith, Henry Edward (2009)

    • Law and Local Knowledge in the History of the Civil Rights Movement 

      Mack, Kenneth W. (Harvard Law Review Pub. Association, 2012)
      Book Review Essay focusing on Tomiko Brown Nagin's Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012), which assesses recent political science-oriented scholarship ...

    • Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941 

      Mack, Kenneth W. (Organization of American Historians -- Oxford Journals, 2006)
      What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment ...

    • Law and Passion 

      Kennedy, David W. (State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, 1988)

    • The Law and Sociology of Boilerplate 

      Rakoff, Todd Daniel (Michigan Law Review, 2006)
      In my view, the scholarship presented at this symposium demonstrates that, in order to analyze form contracts and boilerplate successfully, one must carry out a set of operations that embodies an approach I will call law ...

    • Law and the Boundaries of Technology-Intensive Firms 

      Bar-Gill, Oren; Parchomovsky, Gideon (University of Pennsylvania, 2009)

    • Law and the City 

      Frug, Gerald Ellison (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)

    • Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor 

      Desan, Christine (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)

    • Law and the Political Economy of the World 

      Kennedy, David W. (Leiden Journal of International Law Foundation, 2013)
      The interpenetration of global political and economic life has placed questions of ‘political economy’ on the scholarly agenda across the social sciences. The author argues that international law could contribute to ...

    • Law and the Rise of the Firm 

      Hansmann, Henry; Kraakman, Reinier H.; Squire, Richard (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2006)
      Organizational law empowers firms to hold assets and enter contracts as entities that are legally distinct from their owners and managers. Legal scholars and economists have commented extensively on one form of this ...