Now showing items 1777-1796 of 1910

    • Ubiquitous Human Computing 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Royal Society, The, 2008)
      Ubiquitous computing means network connectivity everywhere, linking devices and systems as small as a thumb tack and as large as a worldwide product distribution chain. What could happen when people are so readily networked? ...
    • The Un-Microsoft Un-Remedy: Law Can Prevent the Problem That It Can't Patch Later 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Connecticut Law Review Association, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1999)
      Microsoft has brilliantly exploited its current control of the personal computer operating system (OS) market to grant itself advantages towards controlling tomorrow's operating system market as well. This is made possible ...
    • Unanimity and Disagreement on the Supreme Court 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (Cornell Law Review, 2015)
      In 2013, the Supreme Court showed an unusually high rate of unanimous decisions – the highest, in fact, since 1940. This increase in unanimity, long favored by Chief Justice John Roberts, places a spotlight on an insufficiently ...
    • The Unbearable Lightness of Tea Leaves: Constitutional Political Economy in Court 

      Michelman, Frank Isaac (The University of Texas Law Review, 2016)
      This paper addresses the latest iteration by Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath of their project on the “Anti-Oligarchy Constitution,” sometimes also called by them the “Constitution of Opportunity.” Fishkin and Forbath ...
    • The Unbundled Executive 

      Berry, Christopher R.; Gersen, Jacob E. (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
      This Article articulates and analyzes the possibility of an unbundled executive. The unbundled executive is a plural executive regime in which discrete authority is taken from the President and given exclusively to a ...
    • Unbundled Powers 

      Gersen, Jacob E. (Virginia Law Review Association, 2010)
    • The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining 

      Sachs, Benjamin Ian (Yale Law School, 2013)
      Public policy in the United States is disproportionately responsive to the wealthy, and the traditional response to this problem, campaign finance regulation, has failed. As students of politics have long recognized, ...
    • The Uncertain Nature of Federal Jurisdiction 

      Field, Martha Amanda (1981)
    • Unconstitutional Perpetual Trusts 

      Sitkoff, Robert H; Horowitz, Steven (Vanderbilt Law School, 2014)
      Perpetual trusts are an established feature of today’s estate planning firmament. Yet little-noticed provisions in the constitutions of nine states, including in five states that purport to allow perpetual trusts by statute, ...
    • Understanding Global Due Process 

      Neuman, Gerald L. (Georgetown University Law Center, 2009)
    • Understanding Humanitarian Exemptions: UN Security Council Sanctions and Principled Humanitarian Action 

      King, Katie; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon; Lewis, Dustin Andrew (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project. Harvard Law School., 2016)
    • Understanding Income Tax Deferral 

      Halperin, Daniel I.; Warren, Alvin Clifford (New York University School of Law, 2014)
      The goal of this brief note is to clarify the role of deferral in income taxation by introducing a distinction between pure deferral and counterparty deferral. Pure deferral (such as a current deduction for a capital ...
    • Understanding Long Term Capital 

      Warren, Alvin C. (Tax Analysts and Advocates, 2005)
      This article examines the recent district court decision in Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, which involved the cloning of an artificial loss that was sold to two different groups of taxpayers for deduction. ...
    • The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders 

      Fried, Jesse M. (Yale Law School, 2015)
      This paper challenges a persistent and pervasive view in corporate law and corporate governance: that a firm’s managers should favor long-term shareholders over short-term shareholders, and maximize long-term shareholders’ ...
    • The Uneasy Case for Product Liability 

      Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013-07-30)
      In this Article we compare the benefits of product liability to its costs and conclude that the case for product liability is weak for a wide range of products. One benefit of product liability is that it can induce firms ...
    • Unenumerated Rights Under Popular Constitutionalism 

      Michelman, Frank Isaac (2014)
    • The Unexceptional U.S. Human Rights RUDs 

      Goldsmith, Jack L. (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 2005)
    • Unfreezing Credit Markets 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye (Harvard John M. Olin Center, 2008)
      Despite the large infusion of capital into the financial sector and low interest rates, the flow of financing to operating firms has failed to return to normal levels. One explanation suggested is that banks still lack ...