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The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer
(Cardozo Law Review, 2008)This paper is part of a symposium issue entitled "Law and Event," whose subject is the work of the contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou. The paper offers a reading of "21 Grams," a film that treats in narrative ... -
An Economic Analysis of Civil versus Common Law Property
(2012)The article presents an analysis of civil law property and common law property. It mentions that the civil law system emphasizes on ownership and affects leaseholds whereas common law emphasizes on the estate system. The ... -
AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FOOD AND DRUG LAW: Selected Topics in FDA Enforcement
(1995)In this paper, I hope to introduce the world of Law & Economics to the world of FDA enforcement. By no means is this an effort to analyze every problem dealing with the subject of FDA enforcement. Similarly, the purpose ... -
Economic Analysis of Threats and Their Illegality: Blackmail, Extortion, and Robbery
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An Economic Approach to Price Fixing
(American Bar Association, 2011)This article examines optimal policy toward coordinated oligopolistic price elevation. First, it analyzes the social welfare implications of enforcement, elaborating the value of deterrence and the nature of possible ... -
Economic Regulation and the Rule of Law: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society
(ABA Press, 2009)It is common to view "the free market" and "government regulation" as opposites. This way of framing policy and legal questions suggests that regulation inevitably deprives us of freedom. But another word for "regulation" ... -
The Economic Structure of Fiduciary Law
(The Boston University School of Law, 2011)This essay revisits the economic theory of fiduciary law. Nearly two decades have passed since the publication of the seminal economic analyses of fiduciary law by Cooter and Freedman (1991), and by Easterbrook and Fischel ... -
An Economic Theory of Fiduciary Law
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This chapter restates the economic theory of fiduciary law, making several fresh contributions. First, it elaborates on earlier work by clarifying the agency problem that is at the core of all fiduciary relationships. In ... -
Economics and the Environment: Trading Debt and Technology for Nature
(Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 1992)In this article, Professor O’Neill and Professor Sunstein first explore and suggest improvements in current debt-for-nature swaps, with the ultimate aim of defending the use of economic incentives and Paretian principles ... -
Economizing Legal D-B8
(University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2005)Implicitly extending Stigler (1977), William Klein proposes a lexicon of twenty-eight generic arguments for normative corporate law scholarship in Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association. He suggests that adopting ... -
An Edict from the Thought Police: Reconciling American and European Approaches to Geographical Designations
(1997)The United States is, relatively speaking, a young country, built by immigrants who tried to replicate the best of the world they left behind. The European Union is, strictly speaking, even younger than the U.S., but its ... -
Educating for Participation in the Networked Environment
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Education Contracts of Adhesion in the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Illinois College of Law, 2021-02)Stuck inside our house with our young children during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a newfound appreciation for the vital role that elementary, middle, and high schools play in youth development and the successful functioning ... -
Education for Co-Existence
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Education or Promotion?: Industry-Sponsored Continuing Medical Education (CME) as a Center for the Core/Commercial Speech Debate
(2003)Because of its importance to determining drug usage, information has always been an important part of the regulation of prescription drugs. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry are in a ... -
The Effect of Cost Suppression Under Universal Health Insurance on the Allocation of Talent and the Development of Expertise: Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)Japanese national health insurance provides universal coverage. This system necessarily entails a subsidy that dramatically raises the demand for medical services. In the face of the increased demand, the government ... -
The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure & Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach
(Harvard Law School, 2015)Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling shareholders (also known as “freezeouts”). The standards were based on what transactional form was used: ... -
The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach
(Harvard Law School, 2015)Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling shareholders (also known as “freezeouts”). The standards were based on what transactional form was used: ... -
THE EFFECT OF FDA'S POLICIES ON THE DECREASING EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTIBIOTICS
(1995)This paper will evaluate the effect that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had on the drug resistance problem and will consider how the FDA could tailor its regulatory policies to better safeguard the effectiveness ...