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Protecting Pointless Premiums:Comparing Organic Certification Standards to Consumer Motivations for Purchasing Organics
(2010)This paper seeks to compare the organic certification standards adopted and enforced by USDA against consumer motivations for buying organic foods. A well functioning certification system should ensure that organic foods ... -
Protecting the Ignorant, the Unthinking and the Credulous: Are the FDA's Efforts to Accelerate the Drug Approval Process Compromising Public Safety?
(2000)Recently, five approved prescription drugs were recalled in a one-year period after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) deemed them to be too unsafe for patient use. Notorious among them was fenfluramine ... -
PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO INDUSTRY TO DEVELOP NEW CONTRACEPTIVES
(1995)This paper will discuss why this lack of contraceptive alternatives poses such a tremendous problem, and will describe the birth control options currently available. Additionally, the paper will describe the four main ... -
Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis
(2015)The prudent investor rule, enacted in every state over the last 30 years, is the centerpiece of fiduciary investment law. Repudiating the prior law's emphasis on avoiding risk, the rule reorients fiduciary investment toward ... -
The Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2015)The prudent investor rule, enacted in every state over the last 30 years, is the centerpiece of fiduciary investment law. Repudiating the prior law's emphasis on avoiding risk, the rule reorients fiduciary investment toward ... -
The Prudent Investor Rule and Trust Asset Allocation: An Empirical Analysis
(American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2010)This article reports the results of an empirical study of the effect of the new prudent investor rule on asset allocation by institutional trustees. Using federal banking data spanning 1986 through 1997, the authors find ... -
Psychiatry in the Legal Process: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
(Duke University School of Law, 1968) -
Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence
(Simon Business School. University of Rochester., 2009)Ascertaining which enforcement mechanisms work to protect investors has been both a focus of recent work in academic finance and an issue for policy-making at international development agencies. According to recent academic ... -
The Public and the Private at the United States Border with Cyberspace
(Mississippi Law Journal, 2009)In the twenty-first century, a state can come to know more about each of its citizens via surveillance than ever before in human history. Some states are beginning to exercise this ability. Much of this additional surveillance ... -
Public Deliberation, Affirmative Action, and the Supreme Court
(California Law Review Inc., 1996) -
Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization
(2010)We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Beginning with an initial set of over five million blogs, we used social network analysis to identify a highly active ‘Discussion ... -
Public Goods and the Distribution of Income
(Elsevier, 2006)This article addresses conceptual issues concerning the distributive incidence of public goods. Solutions depend on the specific purposes for asking the question of distributive incidence—notably, assessing the extent to ... -
Public/Private Dichotomy: Political Disagreement and Academic Repudiation
(University of Pennsylvania, 1982) -
Publicity and the Courts of Classical Athens
(Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2012)This Essay explores the role that public legal proceedings played in the classical Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. The courts in classical Athens enjoyed a larger market share of cultural ... -
Publicity and the FDA, An Update
(1997)Publicity is a powerful tool. A single Food and Drug Administration (FDA) press release announcing the dangers of a product can instantaneously alter the consumption patterns of millions of consumers. During the early ... -
Pursuing Inclusive Higher Education in Egypt and Beyond through the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Cogitatio, 2018-12-06)Inclusive higher education is elusive for students with disabilities, especially in developing countries. The adoption and rapid ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides, ... -
Putting a Pricetag on Life: The Value of Life and the FDA
(2004)Regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration are in the business of protecting American lives. These agencies are constantly making judgment calls as to whether prospective products are sufficiently safe, ...