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R X C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility, and Transparency of Assumptions
(Royal Statistical Society, 2009)Despite its potential pitfalls, ecological inference is an unavoidable part of some quantitative settings, including US voting rights litigation. In such applications, the analyst will typically encounter two-way tables ... -
R&D Tax Incentives: Growth Panacea or Budget Trojan Horse?
(New York University Law School, 2016)Research and development (R&D) activity has long held a privileged place in the U.S. income tax system and in policy debates. The premises for R&D tax incentives, however, are grounded in theory regarding a market failure ... -
Race and Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options
(2011)The Conference, Race & Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re‐Assessing the Facts, Re‐Thinking the Policy Options, took place January 28‐29, 2011, at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA -
Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-Racial Conflict
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Race Separatism in the Family: More on the Transracial Adoption Debate
(1995)Some twenty-five years ago a trial court in Virginia upheld the state ban on interracial marriage, reasoning that God created different races and, accordingly, that it was natural to maintain racial purity, and unnatural ... -
The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions
(2009)This article addresses the issue of Racial Disproportionality in child welfare - the disproportionate representation of black children in the foster care system as compared to their representation in the general population. ... -
The Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968: History, Accomplishments, and Future
(2006)Prior to 1968, control of radiation-emitting electronic devices was left to state and local governments, whose regulations proved both inconsistent and ineffective. This was highlighted by General Electric's 1967 recall ... -
The Radio and the Internet
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Raising the Bar: Maples v. Thomas and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
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Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?
(Indiana University School of Law, 2006)Instead of ranking law schools through statistical aggregations of expert judgments or by combining a list of heterogeneous factors, it would be possible to rely on a market test simply by examining student choices. This ... -
Rapists Discover New Weapons: The Problem and Response to Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
(2001)Drug-facilitated rape presents its victims and law enforcement personnel with an additional set of challenges above and beyond those associated with other sexual assaults. This paper will explore those challenges by examining ... -
Ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Pros and Cons from a Child's Rights Perspective
(Sage in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011)This article discusses the significance of the United States ratification of the CRC, concluding that even if the treaty is not self-executing, ratification would make a major difference. It would enable the United States ... -
Rationing Legal Services
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the United States. The House of Representatives has proposed cutting the budget of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), one of the main funders of legal ... -
Raw Milk Cheeses: Historical Overview, Current Regulations, and the Battle to Preserve Artisinal Cheesemaking
(2005)The current law with regard to raw milk cheese can be summarized as follows: interstate sales cheese made with raw, un-aged milk are prohibited by federal law. Intra-state sale of raw milk cheese is not prohibited by federal ... -
Re-crafting a Public Domain
(2006)There is a public domain, but it is small, relative to its history, and it is shrinking. Digital technology will only speed its decline. And because most are oblivious to the particular threat that digital technology poses ... -
Re-Envisaging the International Law of Internal Armed Conflict: A Reply to Sandesh Sivakumaran
(European University Institute, 2011)The regulation of internal armed conflict by international law has come a long way in a very short space of time. Until the early 1990s, there were a minimum of international law rules applicable to internal armed conflict. ... -
Re-Solidifying Racial Bloc Voting: Empirics and Legal Doctrine in the Melting Pot
(Indiana University School of Law, 2011)Racial bloc voting is the central concept in judicial regulation of redistricting. For the past several decades, the definition and proof of this concept have depended on two premises: that polities can be conceptualized ... -
Reading Our Lips: The History of Lipstick Regulation in Western Seats of Power
(2006)This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 B.C. to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily ... -
The Real Fountain of Youth: How Old Drugs Get Covered By New Patents
(2003)Until 1995, the term of a patent was 17 years from issue, with a possible extension of five years for delays in market entry related to the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process. Still, many pharmaceutical ...