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Outsourcing Power: How Privatizing Military Efforts Challenges Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy
(The Boston College Law School, 2005)Private contractors have played key roles in recent high-profile scandals. These scandals hint at the degree to which the U.S. military has increased the scope and scale of its reliance on private security companies in ... -
Over 187 Billion Served: Food Safety in the National School Lunch Program
(2005)This paper explores the problem of food safety in the National School Lunch Program. After a brief history of the program and an account of its current operations and structure, particularly its mechanisms for ensuring ... -
Over-Accountability
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)Although ensuring the “accountability” of agents to their principals is widely considered a core objective of institutional design, recent work in political economy has identified and elucidated an important class of ... -
Overload: Regulating the Sources of Information about Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(2005)Information relating to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) has flooded the consumer and medical markets in recent years. Information “overload†is often problematic, but it is ... -
The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup
(American Bar Association, 2001)This paper identifies problems with the ordered breakup of Microsoft that seem to have been completely overlooked by the government, the judge, and the commentators. The breakup order prohibits Bill Gates and other large ... -
Overreaction to Fearsome Risks
(Springer Verlag, 2014-09-22)Fearsome risks are those that stimulate strong emotional responses. Such risks, which usually involve high consequences, tend to have low probabilities, since life today is no longer nasty, brutish and short. In the face ... -
Overruling Home Rule
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Overruling the Food and Drug Administration: An Analysis of the 2011 Denial of Over-the-Counter Status for Plan B Placed within the Historical Context of Executive Influence on FDA Action
(2012)On December 7, 2011, newspaper headlines from coast to coast announced that Plan B One-Step, a form of emergency contraception, would not be made available to females under seventeen without a prescription. The denial of ... -
Overview of Federal Regulation of Dietary Supplements: Past, Present, and Future Trends
(2000)This paper seeks to provide the researcher with a general overview of the past, present, and future of the federal regulation of dietary supplements. Part I of the paper briefly describes the regulation of dietary supplements ... -
Panel Discussion: Welfare Rights
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The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times
(Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, 2021-04-26)Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s ... -
The Parliament of the Experts
(Duke University School of Law, 2009)In the administrative state, how should expert opinions be aggregated and used? If a panel of experts is unanimous on a question of fact, causation, or prediction, can an administrative agency rationally disagree, and on ... -
Partner Schmartner! EEOC v. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
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Partyism
(2015)“Partyism” is a form of hostility and prejudice that operates across political lines. For example, some Republicans have an immediate aversive reaction to Democrats, and some Democrats have the same aversive reaction to ... -
Past, Present and Future in the Search for the Perfect Anti-epileptic Drug
(2002)This paper explores the development of anti-epileptic drugs, starting with the earliest forms of treatment, moving to the drugs currently in use and those recently approved by the FDA, and ending with the drugs (and devices!) ... -
The Past, Present, and Future of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: What we have Learned and Why Increased Regulation is Warranted
(2011)Almost a decade after the complete sequencing of the human genome, we have seen a proliferation of genetic testing services marketed directly to the consumer and purporting to use genetic information to generate individualized ... -
Patent Law, Antitrust Enforcement, and Public Access to Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies
(2003)Patent and antitrust laws impact public access to pharmaceuticals and medical technologies. Two instances—one involving Roche’s new class of HIV/AIDS drugs, the other an antitrust ...