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The Rise of Obesity and Diabetes with the Adoption of A Western Diet: A Case Study of Native American Communities
(2014-03-18)Since the mid-1900s, rates of obesity and diabetes among Native American populations have been much higher than the rates of those disorders for Americans as a whole—and yet, before 1950 or so, diabetes was extremely rare ... -
The Rise of the Corporate Legal Elite in the BRICS: Implications for Global Governance
(The Boston College Law School, 2013)Both international relations scholars interested in the future of global governance and sociologists of the legal profession studying the globalization of the legal services market are devoting increasing attention to ... -
A Rising Star? Halal Consumer Protection Laws
(2001)The objective of this paper is to explore the legal aspects of the nascent halal regime in the United States. In Part I, an introduction to halal dietary laws is given. In Part II, a summary history of the halal ... -
Risk Aversion and the Desirability of Attenuated Legal Change
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This article develops two points. First, insurance against the risk of legal change is largely unavailable, primarily because of the correlated nature of the losses that legal change generates. Second, given the absence ... -
The Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture Series, Lecture, Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academica
(Fordham Law Review, 2000) -
The Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture Series, Lecture, Reforming School Reform
(Fordham Law Review, 1999) -
Roberts's Real Long Game?
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Robust Exclusion Through Loyalty Discounts
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2010)We consider loyalty discounts whereby the seller promises to give buyers who commit to buy from it a lower price than the seller gives to uncommitted buyers. We show that an incumbent seller can use loyalty discounts to ... -
Robust Exclusion Through Loyalty Discounts With Buyer Commitment
(John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Harvard Law School., 2012)We show that loyalty discounts with buyer commitments create anticompetitive effects beyond those possible with pure exclusive dealing. The loyalty discount adds a seller commitment to maintain a distinction between the ... -
The Role of the Client: The President's Role in Government Lawyering
(Boston College Law School, 2009)Discussions of whether Bush and Clinton administration lawyers have acted ethically have missed a fundamental point about the attorney-client relationship. It is the client - in this case, the government - who is ultimately ... -
Rolling Back the Repo Safe Harbors
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2014)Recent decades have seen substantial expansion in exemptions from the Bankruptcy Code’s normal operation for repurchase agreements. These repos, which are equivalent to very short-term (often one-day) secured loans, are ... -
Rose's Human Nature of Property
(College of William and Mary, 2011)Many social theories claim to have the human being at their center. That has been more a matter of theory than practice in many of those theories. But in the case of Carol Rose’s scholarship on property it could not be ... -
A Rotation in Contemporary Legal Scholarship
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RU 486: A LESSON IN RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
(1994)The current controversy surrounding the introduction of the French abortifacient, RU 486, into the U.S. should not be simplistically characterized as the FDA’s failure to admit a promising new drug for ... -
A Rule of Law for Cities
(Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel, 2010)This essay focuses on one aspect of the relationship between law and space: the idea that cities be governed by the rule of law. The core value of the rule of law, it is suggested, is the need to restrain the exercise of ... -
The Rule of Reason in Property Law
(University of California, Davis, 2013)Property rights cannot work if they are not clear, and scholars generally assume that the best way to attain this goal is to define property rights by relatively rigid rules. However, recent evidence suggests that the ... -
Rules 'With All Deliberate Speed'
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Rules and Rulelessness
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Rules versus Standards: An Economic Analysis
(Duke University School of Law, 1992)This Article offers an economic analysis of the extent to which legal commands should be promulgated as rules or standards. Two dimensions of the problem are emphasized. First, the choice between rules and standards affects ...