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U.S. Drug Manufacturers Beware: Application of the PRC Antibribery Law to Drug Marketing and Promotional Practices in China
(2002)China’s ongoing economic growth and tremendous market potentials have presented many opportunities for American pharmaceutical manufacturers. According to a report issued by the Pharmaceutical Research ... -
Ubiquitous Human Computing
(Royal Society, The, 2008)Ubiquitous computing means network connectivity everywhere, linking devices and systems as small as a thumb tack and as large as a worldwide product distribution chain. What could happen when people are so readily networked? ... -
The Un-Microsoft Un-Remedy: Law Can Prevent the Problem That It Can't Patch Later
(Connecticut Law Review Association, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1999)Microsoft has brilliantly exploited its current control of the personal computer operating system (OS) market to grant itself advantages towards controlling tomorrow's operating system market as well. This is made possible ... -
Unanimity and Disagreement on the Supreme Court
(Cornell Law Review, 2015)In 2013, the Supreme Court showed an unusually high rate of unanimous decisions – the highest, in fact, since 1940. This increase in unanimity, long favored by Chief Justice John Roberts, places a spotlight on an insufficiently ... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Tea Leaves: Constitutional Political Economy in Court
(The University of Texas Law Review, 2016)This paper addresses the latest iteration by Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath of their project on the “Anti-Oligarchy Constitution,” sometimes also called by them the “Constitution of Opportunity.” Fishkin and Forbath ... -
The Unbundled Executive
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)This Article articulates and analyzes the possibility of an unbundled executive. The unbundled executive is a plural executive regime in which discrete authority is taken from the President and given exclusively to a ... -
Unbundled Powers
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The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining
(Yale Law School, 2013)Public policy in the United States is disproportionately responsive to the wealthy, and the traditional response to this problem, campaign finance regulation, has failed. As students of politics have long recognized, ... -
Uncapping the Bottle: A Look Inside the History, Industry, and Regulation of Bottled Water in the United States
(2006)Since the late twentieth century, the bottled water industry in the United States has been exploding, and more Americans have been choosing bottled water as their preferred beverage. Although much has been written about ... -
Unconstitutional Perpetual Trusts
(Vanderbilt Law School, 2014)Perpetual trusts are an established feature of today’s estate planning firmament. Yet little-noticed provisions in the constitutions of nine states, including in five states that purport to allow perpetual trusts by statute, ... -
Understanding Global Due Process
(Georgetown University Law Center, 2009) -
Understanding Humanitarian Exemptions: UN Security Council Sanctions and Principled Humanitarian Action
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project. Harvard Law School., 2016) -
Understanding Income Tax Deferral
(New York University School of Law, 2014)The goal of this brief note is to clarify the role of deferral in income taxation by introducing a distinction between pure deferral and counterparty deferral. Pure deferral (such as a current deduction for a capital ... -
Understanding Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps Between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization
(Yale Law School, 1993)No abstract provided. -
Understanding Long Term Capital
(Tax Analysts and Advocates, 2005)This article examines the recent district court decision in Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, which involved the cloning of an artificial loss that was sold to two different groups of taxpayers for deduction. ... -
The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders
(Yale Law School, 2015)This paper challenges a persistent and pervasive view in corporate law and corporate governance: that a firm’s managers should favor long-term shareholders over short-term shareholders, and maximize long-term shareholders’ ... -
The Uneasy Case for Product Liability
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013-07-30)In this Article we compare the benefits of product liability to its costs and conclude that the case for product liability is weak for a wide range of products. One benefit of product liability is that it can induce firms ...