Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
Now showing items 1045-1064 of 1913
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The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making
(Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
Lucky CEOS and Lucky Directors
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)We study the relation between opportunistic timing of option grants and corporate governance failures, focusing on “lucky” grants awarded at the lowest price of the grant month. Option grant practices were designed to ... -
The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income
(Northwestern Law School, 2006)For 200 years the rule against accumulations of income, which limits the time during which a settlor may direct the trustee to accumulate and retain income in trust, has lurked in the shadow of its older and more distinguished ... -
M&A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice
(2015)M&A transactions are governed by contracts that exhibit constrained variation – they are negotiated, yet full of boilerplate, tailored, yet full of patterns and regularities. This paper (a chapter of the Research Handbook ... -
M. L. B. v. S. L. J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996)
(Harvard Law School Library, 2013) -
Major Trends Lead Us Back to Basics
(University of Iowa, College of Law, 2006) -
Make it Work!: Breyer on Patents in the Life Sciences
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2015-06-18)This short essay is part of a Harvard Law Review Symposium honoring Justice Breyer on his 20th Year on The Supreme Court. It examines Breyer's opinions and impact on the law of patents in the life sciences, and shows how ... -
Making Coasean Property More Coasean
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)In his pioneering work on transaction costs, Ronald Coase presupposed a picture of property as a bundle of government-prescribed use rights. This picture is not only not essential to what Coase was trying to do, but its ... -
Making Credit Safer
(University of Pennsylvania, 2008) -
Making History or Making Peace: When Prosecutions Should Give Way to Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)This essay identifies a set of choices for national leaders and human rights advocates following mass atrocities, including whether to pursue a truth commission, how to coordinate its relationship with potential criminal ... -
Making Residency Work Hour Rules Work
(Wiley for American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2013)In July 2011, the ACGME implemented new rules that limit interns to 16 hours of work in a row, but continue to allow 2nd-year and higher resident physicians to work for up to 28 consecutive hours. Whether the ACGME's 2011 ... -
Making the Case for a National Food Strategy in the United States
(Food and Drug Law Institute and Georgetown University, 2017)Presently, in the United States there is a fair amount of speculation regarding the future of food and agricultural laws and policies, given the recent election of a new president. Based on campaign rhetoric and comments ... -
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)This paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic ... -
Manhattan
(Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, 2003) -
Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others
(American Economic Association, 2005)Should the manufacturer of a product be held legally responsible when a consumer, while using the product, harms someone else? We show that if consumers have deep pockets, then manufacturer liability is not desirable. If ... -
Many Silent Worlds
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Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization
(Métis Presses, 2021)Nowadays, many of our actions are transformed into digital information, which we can use to draw diagrams that describe complex operations, such as those of institutions. This book introduces us to the reading of complex ... -
Marbury and the Constitutional Mind: A Bicentennial Essay on the Wages of Doctrinal Tension
(California Law Review Inc., 2003) -
The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History
(Wiley-Blackwell for the American Bar Foundation, 2005)