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N2 Universal: A Case Study of an NDA
(1994)Food and drug law, like all areas of administrative law, is rife with tension among countervailing principles. The Food and Drug Administration is charged with protecting the health and safety of the American public. This ... -
Naive Cynicism: Maintaining False Perceptions in Policy Debates
(2008)This is the second article in a multi-part series. In the first part, The Great Attributional Divide, the authors suggested that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on contrasting attributional ... -
Naming Horror: Legal and Political Words for Mass Atrocities
(Journals Division, University of Toronto Press, 2007) -
Narratives of Federalism Of Continuities and Comparative Constitutional Experience
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The National Childhood Vaccine Act
(1994)Prior to passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Act in November 1986, manufacturers could be held strictly liable in tort for vaccine-related injuries, a lamentable situation which allegedly caused increasing prices, ... -
The National Strategic Stockpile: Will It Really Protect the Nation against Bioterrorism?
(2006)This paper assesses one of the key components of the nation’s defense against bioterrorism—the National Strategic Stockpile. The Stockpile was created by the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 ... -
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Program Evaluation [Redacted Version]
(2003)To address these concerns and simultaneously encourage parents to have their children vaccinated, Congress enacted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act (the Act). The Act consists of two parts: (1) the ... -
Nationwide shift to grass-fed beef requires larger cattle population
(IOP Publishing, 2018)In the US, there is growing interest in producing more beef from pasture based systems, rather than grain-finishing feedlot systems due to the perception that it is more environmentally sustainable. Yet existing understanding ... -
The Nature of Coasean Property
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2012)The Coase Theorem is widely regarded as pointing to the importance of positive transaction costs for the analysis of economic institutions. Various interpretations of the Coase Theorem regard transaction costs as some set ... -
THE NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVENESS AND INCREASED ENFORCEABILITY IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATIONS
(2002)This article will discuss the main mechanisms by which the United States and other countries are attempting to standardize their pharmaceutical regulations. I first explore the need for standardization and the potential ... -
Negative-Expected-Value Suits
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2009)We review the literature on negative-expected-value suits (NEV suits) – suits in which the plaintiff would obtain a negative expected return from pursuing the suit all the way to judgment. We discuss alternative theories ... -
Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq
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Negotiation? Auction? A Deal Maker's Guide
(Harvard Business School Publishing, 2009)What's the best way to buy or sell an asset? Should you hold an auction and accept the most attractive offer? Or should you identify the most likely prospects and negotiate with them privately? Auctions became increasingly ... -
Neither Hayek Nor Habermas
(Springer Verlag, 2008)The rise of the blogosphere raises important questions about the elicitation and aggregation of information, and about democracy itself. Do blogs allow people to check information and correct errors? Can we understand the ... -
Net Neutrality as Diplomacy
(Yale Law School, 2010)Popular imagination holds that the turf of a state’s foreign embassy is a little patch of its homeland. Enter the American Embassy in Beijing and you are in the United States. Indeed, in many contexts—such as resistance ... -
Net Regulation: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
(Publication of the University of Colorado School of Law, 2000)The paper reports on a survey of over 700 bills and public laws passed in Congress in the 1990s in which keywords like "internet," "ecommerce," "Web" or similar terms appear. It maps these occurances as expressions of the ... -
“Netwar”: The unwelcome militarization of the Internet has arrived
(Informa UK Limited, 2017-08-21)The architecture and offerings of the Internet developed without much steering by governments, much less operations by militaries. That made talk of “cyberwar” exaggerated, except in very limited instances. Today that is ... -
The Neurontin Controversy: The Saga of Off-Label Drug Regulation Continues
(2004)The regulation off-label drugs is a complicated and controversial area of the law. Regulators must protect patients’ safety without interfering with physicians’ practice of medicine ... -
Neuroscience and Sentencing
(2016)This symposium comes at a propitious time for me. I am reviewing the sentences I was obliged to give to hundreds of men—mostly African American men—over the course of a seventeen-year federal judicial career. As I have ...