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Torts and Estates: Remedying Wrongful Interference with Inheritance
(Stanford Law School, 2013)This Article examines the nature, origin, and policy soundness of the tort of interference with inheritance. We argue that the tort should be repudiated because it is conceptually and practically unsound. Endorsed by the ... -
Torts as Wrongs
(The University of Texas, 2010)Torts scholars hold different views on why tort law shifts costs from plaintiffs to defendants. Some invoke notions of justice, some efficiency, and some compensation. Nearly all seem to agree, however, that tort law is ... -
Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media
(2010)The current debate over waterboarding has spawned hundreds of newspaper articles in the last two years alone. However, waterboarding has been the subject of press attention for over a century. Examining the four newspapers ... -
Total Force Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program: Controversy and Conflagration
(2001)Washington, D.C. has perceived the threat of anthrax from any of several hostile parties. The offer of protection comes in the form of the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (“AVIPâ€). On ... -
Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2014)We argue that the state-law rules governing poison pills are vulnerable to challenges based on preemption by the Williams Act. Such challenges, we show, could well have a major impact on the corporate-law landscape. The ... -
Toward a Pragmatic Understanding of Status Consciousness: The Case of Deregulated Education
(Duke University School of Law, 2000)This Article discusses the relationship between federal equal protection doctrine and the states' experiment with deregulated education-in particular, charter schools whose student bodies are identifiable on the basis of ... -
Toward a Pragmatic Understanding of Status-Consciousness: The Case of Deregulated Education
(Duke University School of Law, 2000)This Article discusses the relationship between federal equal protection doctrine and the states' experiment with deregulated education-in particular, charter schools whose student bodies are identifiable on the basis of ... -
Toward a Revisionist History of the Supreme Court
(1988)The bicentennial year provoked a reconsideration of not only the era of the framing but of constitutional history as a whole. At one point I thought that I might participate in that effort by writing a history of the Supreme ... -
Toward Board Declassification in 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies: Report of the SRP for the 2012 and 2013 Proxy Seasons
(Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 2014)This report provides an overview and analysis of the work that the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) undertook on behalf of a number of institutional investors during 2012 and 2013, the SRP’s first two years of operations. ... -
Toward Contractual Choice in Marriage
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Toward National Uniformity for FDA-Regulated Products
(2000)In this paper, I will argue that national uniformity should be granted to all FDA-regulated products and should include preemption of both state labeling and safety standards as well as state product liability laws. Cosmetics ... -
Toward Rational Regulation of Marijuana in the United States: FDA's Role in Consumer Choice and Safety
(1995)The Food and Drug Administration is an agency dedicated to maintaining the health and safety of the American public. For as long as people have been purchasing and consuming foods and drugs there have been the problems of ... -
Towards a Model of the Costs of Security
(2003)We present a simple information security model to determine why, historically, the level of security has not increased despite numerous technical advances. In our model, the software design process involves trade-offs ... -
Towards Better Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Essay on Regulatory Management
(School of Law, Duke University, 2015)Cost-benefit analysis of financial regulation (CBA/FR) has become a flashpoint in contemporary legal and political debates, partly due to the Dodd-Frank Act. Yet debates over CBA/FR exhibit terminological confusion, and ... -
Trading the Megaphone for the Gavel in Title IX Enforcement
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The Transformation of a Social Movement into Law?: The SCLC and NAACP's Campaigns for Civil Rights Reconsidered In Light of the Educational Activism of Septima Clark
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 1999)This article reconsiders the efficacy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP's) strategies for achieving civil rights by comparing ... -
The Transformation of American Landlord-Tenant Law
(The Boston College Law School, 1982)