Now showing items 1826-1845 of 1910

    • The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Cohen, Alma; Spamann, Holger (Yale Journal on Regulation, 2010)
      The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing debate about regulatory ...
    • War and International Law: Distinguishing the Military and Humanitarian Professions 

      Kennedy, David W. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O, 2007)
    • War for the Wrong Reasons: Lessons from Law 

      Blum, Gabriella; Goldberg, John C. P. (2014)
      In Ethics for Enemies, Frances Kamm argues that, under certain conditions, it is mor-ally permissible for a state to launch a war for opportunistic reasons. We consider how law might shed light on Kamm’s argument. Part I ...
    • War-Algorithm Accountability 

      Lewis, Dustin Andrew; Blum, Gabriella; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC), 2016)
      In this briefing report, we introduce a new concept — war algorithms — that elevates algorithmically-derived “choices” and “decisions” to a, and perhaps the, central concern regarding technical autonomy in war. We thereby ...
    • The Warren Court And The Pursuit Of Justice 

      Horwitz, Morton J. (1993)
    • Was Bush v. Gore a Human Rights Case? 

      Neuman, Gerald L.; Hatzis, Nicholas (University of Minnesota Law School, 2008)
      The article discusses a court case on the Greek parliamentary election of 2004 wherein the Supreme Court of Greece decided on the contested election by ruling for a recalculation based on different rules. The ruling was ...
    • Web Tactics 

      Faris, Robert M; Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Writers & Scholars International, 2009)
      Robert Faris and Jonathan Zittrain chart the highs and lows for free expression online in 2009: from the triumph over Green Dam to cyber attacks.
    • The Web's Dark Energy 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    • The Welfare Effects of Metering Ties 

      Elhauge, Einer Richard; Nalebuff, Barry J. (2015)
      Critics of current tying doctrine argue that metering ties can increase consumer welfare and total welfare without increasing output and that they generally increase both welfare measures. Contrary to those claims, we prove ...
    • Welfare Rights in a Constitutional Democracy 

      Michelman, Frank Isaac (1979)
    • Western Europe vs. Religious Freedom 

      Glendon, Mary Ann Ann; al-Hibri, Aziza (2012)
    • What "Design Copyright"? 

      Hemphill, C. Scott; Suk, Jeannie Chi Young (Harvard Law Review Association, 2013)
    • What an Originalist Would Understand "Corruption" to Mean 

      Lessig, Lawrence (California Law Review Inc., 2014)
      As important as "that" is "how." It is commonplace to say of the United States Congress that it is "corrupt." But it is critical, if we are to reform that corrupt institution, to say how it is corrupt. In what sense? ...
    • What Consequences Do Ideas Have? 

      Tushnet, Mark (2009-03-22)
      Steven Teles's book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, is a case study of ideological challenge. Teles, a political scientist, emphasizes the institutional dimensions of such challenges. Relying on interviews ...
    • What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard’s Largest Employers Weigh In 

      Coates, John; Fried, Jesse M.; Spier, Kathryn E. (2014-09-18)
      We report the results of an online survey, conducted on behalf of Harvard Law School, of 124 practicing attorneys at major law firms. The survey had two main objectives: (1) to assist students in selecting courses by ...
    • What Did Lawrence Hold? Of Autonomy, Desuetude, Sexuality, and Marriage 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (The Law School of the University of Chicago, 2003)
      The Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas is best seen as a cousin to Griswold v. Connecticut, invalidating a ban on the use of contraception within marriage,and Reed v. Reed, invalidating a preference for men over ...
    • What Divides Textualists from Purposivists? 

      Manning, John Francis (Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2006)
      Recent scholarship has questioned whether there remains a meaningful distinction between modern textualism and purposivism. Purposivists traditionally argued that because Congress passes statutes to achieve some aim, federal ...
    • What Everybody Knows and What Too Few Accept 

      Lessig, Lawrence (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2009)
      No one believes that every campaign contribution would tend to corrupt the judicial process. If campaigns were cheap, if contributions were small, if contributors were many or unknown — in any of those cases, the fact that ...