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Shotgun Mechanisms for Common-Value Partnerships: The Unassigned-Offeror Problem
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Shotguns clauses are commonly included in the business agreements of partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs), but the role of offeror typically remains unassigned. In a common-value, one-sided asymmetric ... -
Shotguns and Deadlocks
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2013)The process of resolving business deadlocks is time consuming and expensive, typically requiring the services of lawyers, financial experts and judges. Prolonged resolution processes, cost-inefficient administration of ... -
Should BP be Liable for Economic Losses Due to the Moratorium on Oil Drilling Imposed After the Deepwater Horizon Accident?
(Vanderbilt Law School, 2011)In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon accident and the BP oil spill, the government imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The issue addressed here is whether, on grounds of policy, BP ... -
Should Coercive Interrogation Be Legal?
(Michigan Law Review, 2006)Coercive interrogation is now a live subject, thanks to 9/11. At one time, coercive interrogation played a role only in philosophical disputes about consequentialism, in which scholars asserted or denied that the police ... -
Should Consumers be Permitted to Waive Products Liability? Product Safety, Private Contracts, and Adverse Selection
(Yale University Press, 2014)A potentially dangerous product is supplied by a competitive market. The likelihood of a product-related accident depends on the unobservable precautions taken by the manufacturer and on the type of the consumer. Contracts ... -
Should Copyright of Academic Works be Abolished?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)The conventional rationale for copyright of written works, that copyright is needed to foster their creation, is seemingly of limited applicability to the academic domain. For in a world without copyright of academic ... -
Should Donald Trump be returned to social media?
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Should Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rights Be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?
(California Law Review Inc., 2009)Many people believe that the problem of climate change would be best handled by an international agreement that includes a system of cap and trade. Such a system would impose a global cap on greenhouse gases emissions and ... -
Should Greenhouse Gas Permits be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?
(California Law Review Inc., 2009)Many people believe that the problem of climate change would be best handled by an international agreement that includes a system of "cap-andtrade. "Such a system would impose a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions and ... -
Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)In our 1994 article in this Journal, we demonstrated that legal rules should not be adjusted to disfavor the rich and favor the poor in order to redistribute income, because the income tax and transfer system is a more ... -
Should Religious Groups Be Exempt from Civil Rights Laws?
(The Boston College Law School, 2007)Should a private, religious university lose its tax-exempt status because it bans interracial dating? Should a religious school fire a pregnant married teacher on religious grounds despite the ban against gender discrimination ... -
Should Religious Groups Ever Be Exempt From Civil Rights Laws?
(The Boston College Law School, 2007)Should a private religious university lose its tax exempt status if it bans interracial dating? Should a religious school be able fire a pregnant married teacher because her continued work would violate the church's view ... -
Should Tanning Salons Be Banned?
(1995)Tanning salons are a one billion dollar business each year in the United States. Over one million people a day visit the 21,000 tanning establishments in this country in search of the perfect tan, paying four to twelve ... -
Should TrimSpa X32 Remain on the Market? An analysis of TrimSpa X32’s compliance with FDA and FTC guidelines
(2005)TrimSpa X32 has launched onto the dietary supplement and weight loss markets with a deluge of promotion, from a celebrity endorser to a million dollar contest, from sponsorship of award shows to a website filled with ... -
Should We Have Lay Justices?
(Stanford Law School, 2007)By "lay justices" I mean justices of the Supreme Court of the United States who are not accredited lawyers. Currently the number of lay justices is zero, although there is no constitutional or statutory rule that requires ... -
The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt
(2003)This paper examines the transformation of public health institutions in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in the nineteenth century. I argue that the region’s political, financial, and military vulnerability ... -
Sierra to Court: Don't Fence Us Out
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The Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implant Controversy: Testing the Bounds of Regulatory Intervention
(2004)Silicone gel-filled breast implants were first introduced in the United States in the 1960s and immediately gained popularity among women seeking to augment or reconstruct their breasts. However, although the Food and Drug ... -
A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2014)The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and law enforcement. Optimal imprisonment sanctions and the optimal probability of sanctions are determined. ... -
A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation
(Elsevier, 2015)The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and law enforcement. Optimal imprisonment sanctions and the optimal probability of sanctions are determined. ...