Browsing HLS Student Papers by Issue Date
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15 Ways to Engage Youth Within Your Company and Why You Should Do It
(2022-06-15)Leaders in both the public and private sectors have increasingly acknowledged that society has an obligation to include the next generation in the decision-making processes that will shape their future. Young people (ages ... -
Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System: Assessing the Use of Risk Assessments in Sentencing
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Risk assessment tools are increasingly being incorporated into all aspects of the criminal justice system. This paper focuses on the use of these tools in the sentencing process, a relatively recent development which raises ... -
Data Analytics and the Fight against Housing Blight: A Guide for Local Leaders
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Interlocking Directorates in the European Union: An Argument For Their Restriction
(2016)The EU Commission has recently undertaken a review of the EU Merger Regulation. In this process it has published a White Paper that proposes to extend the Regulation to cover situations in which firms acquire minority ... -
The New American Debtors' Prisons
(2015-08-04)Debtors’ prisons are back, in the form of imprisonment for nonpayment of criminal fines, fees, and costs. While the new debtors’ prisons are not historically or doctrinally continuous with the old, recent developments in ... -
The Shadow Takings Doctrine
(2015)The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause provides “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Historically, the Clause protected landowners against appropriation by the state and against ... -
Justice Kennedy and the Unfolding Doctrine of Corporate Religious Sincerity
(2015)This article explores how Justice Kennedy’s Hobby Lobby concurrence synthesizes competing narratives about religious liberty and points toward a doctrinal test of corporate religious sincerity that is legally and politically ... -
The 100-plus-Year Old Case For a Minimalist Criminal Law (Sketch of a General Theory of Substantive Criminal Law)
(2015)Criminal law defines the system of government of which it is the political expression; thus having a normative theory of substantive criminal law is paramount. U.S. criminal law has developed in the absence of such overarching ... -
Estimating Inequality with Tax Data: The Problem of Pass-Through Income
(2015)In recent decades, a growing share of U.S. business income has been taxed on a pass-through basis. When taxed on a pass-through basis, business income is attributed to a firm’s owners and taxed to them as individual income, ... -
A Quantitative Approach to Determining Patentable Subject Matter
(2015)Although declared to be “only a threshold test”, what constitutes patentable subject matter is a difficult question that courts have been trying to answer for decades. This work develops a quantitative framework that ... -
Decoding the Market's Reaction to Settlement Announcements
(2015)This study examines defendant stock price returns on the day preceding, the day of, and the day following announcements of settlements in various types of litigation from 2009 through 2014. I hypothesized that defendant ... -
Inside Insite: How a Localized Social Movement Led the Way for North America’s First Legal Supervised Injection Site
(2015)This paper explores the connection between law and social change by looking at Insite, North America’s first legal supervised injection site, as a case study. The paper focuses on how the Canadian Supreme Court was primed ... -
Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law
(2015)Suppose Jones is a New Hampshire fireworks dealer. Smith comes up from Massachusetts, buys a cache, and brings it home. One night Smith sets off a Roman Candle in his backyard, but mishandles it and badly injures himself. ... -
Due Process, Choice of Law, and the Prosecution of Foreign Nationals for Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organizations in Conflicts Abroad
(2015)In November 2012, a grand jury in the Eastern District of New York indicted Ali Yasin Ahmed, Mahdi Hashi, and Mohamed Yusuf under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B for knowingly and intentionally conspiring to provide material support and ... -
Shaping a Just World: Reinterpreting Rawls’s Approach to Global Justice
(2015)This paper discusses the question of global justice through the lens of the theories of justice expounded by John Rawls in "A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples". In any theory of justice, some ... -
Determining Optimal Default Savings Rates For 401(K) Plans
(2015)Automatic enrolment in 401(k) plans has succeeded in increasing employee participation rates, but the impact on overall savings rates has been less than might have been expected, as some participants who would have previously ... -
Greening the Blue Revolution: How History Can Inform a Sustainable Aquaculture Movement
(2014-03-18)This Paper traces the history of aquaculture from ancient China until the present, highlighting the various degrees of, and reasons for, aquaculture’s popularity at different points throughout history. The history of ... -
The Coming Collision of Ethics and the FDA: The Looming Problem of Cognitive Enhancement
(2014-03-18)The current FDA process is not well suited for the introduction of enhancement drugs that are intended to improve certain aspects of cognition or behavior to a degree beyond what is normal. Even though there are no statutory ... -
Food Addiction: Current Understanding and Implications for Regulation and Research
(2014-03-18)The idea that some processed foods can be addictive has gained support in recent years. Animal and human studies show extensive overlap between the neuronal signaling involved in palatable food consumption and drug ... -
Establishing a No-Fault Compensation System to Replace Failure-to-Warn Product Liability Claims Against Prescription Drug Manufacturers
(2014-03-18)In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which established a no-fault compensation system to provide money to people who are injured by vaccines. The major impetus behind this Act was the soaring ...