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Lucky CEOS and Lucky Directors
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)We study the relation between opportunistic timing of option grants and corporate governance failures, focusing on “lucky” grants awarded at the lowest price of the grant month. Option grant practices were designed to ... -
The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income
(Northwestern Law School, 2006)For 200 years the rule against accumulations of income, which limits the time during which a settlor may direct the trustee to accumulate and retain income in trust, has lurked in the shadow of its older and more distinguished ... -
M&A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice
(2015)M&A transactions are governed by contracts that exhibit constrained variation – they are negotiated, yet full of boilerplate, tailored, yet full of patterns and regularities. This paper (a chapter of the Research Handbook ... -
M. L. B. v. S. L. J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996)
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Major Trends Lead Us Back to Basics
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Make it Work!: Breyer on Patents in the Life Sciences
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2015-06-18)This short essay is part of a Harvard Law Review Symposium honoring Justice Breyer on his 20th Year on The Supreme Court. It examines Breyer's opinions and impact on the law of patents in the life sciences, and shows how ... -
Making Coasean Property More Coasean
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)In his pioneering work on transaction costs, Ronald Coase presupposed a picture of property as a bundle of government-prescribed use rights. This picture is not only not essential to what Coase was trying to do, but its ... -
Making Credit Safer
(University of Pennsylvania, 2008) -
Making History or Making Peace: When Prosecutions Should Give Way to Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)This essay identifies a set of choices for national leaders and human rights advocates following mass atrocities, including whether to pursue a truth commission, how to coordinate its relationship with potential criminal ... -
Making Residency Work Hour Rules Work
(Wiley for American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2013)In July 2011, the ACGME implemented new rules that limit interns to 16 hours of work in a row, but continue to allow 2nd-year and higher resident physicians to work for up to 28 consecutive hours. Whether the ACGME's 2011 ... -
Making Sense of Commercial Speech: A Theoretical Framework and A Case Study in Food and Drug Law
(2005)This Note creates a theoretical framework for understanding commercial speech as a form of hybrid expression. It describes how commercial speech shares some features with expressive conduct and other characteristics with ... -
Making the Case for a National Food Strategy in the United States
(Food and Drug Law Institute and Georgetown University, 2017)Presently, in the United States there is a fair amount of speculation regarding the future of food and agricultural laws and policies, given the recent election of a new president. Based on campaign rhetoric and comments ... -
The Mammography Quality Standards Act: Misread Mammograms, Malpractice, and The Politics of Regulation
(2003)Recent studies and reports suggest that the MQSA has not been successful at improving physician interpretation of mammograms. This paper argues that in order to assess the impact of the MQSA accurately, one must look beyond ... -
Managed Care and the Pharmaceutical Industry
(1995)The 1992 presidential campaign turned the nation's attention to a number of issues. but none was more controversial than the need for health care reform. As a result of the 1994 election, it appears that President Clinton's ... -
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)This paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic ... -
MANAGING "MANAGED CARE": The Changing Role of The FDA In Light of A Changing Market
(1997)Change creates the necessity for more change. Advances in medical technology, and the incentives of a fee-for-service insurance system, drove up the costs of care. In response, insurers and purchasers of care began to seek ... -
Mandatory Vaccination: Why We Still Got to Get Folks to Take Their Shots
(2006)Vaccination is widely considered one of the greatest medical achievements of modern civilization. Childhood diseases that were commonplace less than a generation ago are now increasingly rare because of vaccines. In order ... -
Mandatory Vaccines: Questionable Federal Policy Informing Questionable State Laws
(2002)Among the powers retained by the states are what have become known as the police powers. The police powers include the power of the state government to promote the public welfare by restraining and regulating private ... -
Manhattan
(Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, 2003)