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Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability
(University of Texas School of Law, 2009)The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a tremendous success story. This view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent system: the standards by which drugs are deemed ... -
Unrecognized Victims: Sexual Violence Against Men in Conflict Settings Under International Law
(University of Wisconsin, 2009)This article casts light on the international law aspects of a largely unrecognized occurrence in armed conflict: sexual violence against men. The article discusses causes and consequences of such violence, and assesses ... -
The Unselfish Gene
(Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 2011)For generations, we have operated on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally selfish, and so we have built systems and organizations around monetary incentives, rewards, and punishments. That hasn't always worked ... -
Untangling the Vioxx-Celebrex Controversy: A Story about Responsibility
(2005)While the withdrawal of prescription drugs is not a new concept, the Vioxx and Celebrex controversy has put a new spin on the issue of withdrawal. Vioxx and Celebrex belong to the same class of drugs and both were linked ... -
Upstanders, Whistle-Blowers, and Rescuers
(2014)I will explore several ways people can be upstanders; reasons why people are not upstanders; and potential collective efforts that could make it easier or more likely that people become upstanders. I begin though with a ... -
Urban Law School Graduates in Large Law Firms
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The US Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment
(2014)This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the ... -
The US International Tax Reforms: Competition and Convergence, Pay-Offs and Policy Failures
(2018-11)The recent U.S. international tax reforms are a hodgepodge of nominal and effective tax rate reductions, a poorly designed export subsidy and unnecessarily complex revenue raising tax base protections. The most significant ... -
USDA and FDA Regulations: "The Attack of the Killer Tomato"
(1996)This paper will address the U.S. response to the present and future use of the genetic alteration of food through the analysis of the pioneer food product-- the Flavr-Savr tomato-- which was the first genetically altered ... -
The Use and Misuse of OxyContin
(2002)This paper examines the phenomenon of OxyContin abuse over the past two years. The prescription painkiller has been hailed as both a wonder drug and a killer. Both descriptions are accurate. The trouble is not with the ... -
Use of Blending as a Method to Bring Filth Content Within Defect Action Levels: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
(1995)This paper begins with a brief discussion, for illustrative purposes, of the evolution of regulations for reconditioning in the food salvage industry, and present requirements for reconditioning adulterated food. It then ... -
The Use of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement of Litigation
(RAND, 2003)Many settlement contracts in litigation involving multiple plaintiffs (or multiple defendants) in- clude “most-favored-nation” (MFN) clauses. If an early settlement includes an MFN and the defendant settles later with ... -
Using Cross-practice Collaboration to Meet the Evolving Legal Needs of Local Food Entrepreneurs
(American Bar Association, 2013)This article begins by highlighting several of the legal barriers commonly faced by local food businesses. The article then demonstrates that policy lawyers and transactional lawyers can effectively collaborate to improve ... -
Using Options to Divide Value in Corporate Bankruptcy
(Elsevier, 2000)This paper revisits the proposal to use options in corporate bankruptcy that was put forward in Bebchuk (1988). According to the proposed procedure, corporate bankruptcy should be implemented through the distribution to ... -
THE VACCINE ADDITIVE THIMEROSAL: CAUSATION AND COMPENSATION FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
(2003). This Paper explores the complex thimerosal debate. Part II briefly sets out the history of vaccine manufacturers in the last half of the twentieth century culminating with the passage of the Vaccine Act; it also posits ... -
Vaccines and The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
(2000)The federal government plays a leading role in vaccination by funding vaccine administration and by integrating the immunization efforts of the public and private sectors on national, state and local levels. Congress ... -
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion
(Springer Verlag, 2005)Individuals’ risk preferences are estimated and employed in a variety of settings, notably including choices in financial, labor, and product markets. Recent work, especially in financial economics, provides estimates of ... -
The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 1994)No abstract provided. -
Valuing Life: A Plea for Disaggregation
(Duke University School of Law, 2004)Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life (VSL). This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant ... -
Variations for Mixed Voices
(University of Pennsylvania, 1989)