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    • The Beguiling Appeal of Banks 

      Miwa, Yoshira; Ramseyer, J. Mark (Cincinnati, Ohio, Board of Editors, etc., 2007)
    • Behavioral Analysis of Law 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (University of Chicago Law School, 2014-09-17)
    • A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert; Jolls, Christine; Thaler, Richard (2014-09-22)
    • Behaviorally Informed Health Policy? Patient Autonomy, Active Choosing, and Paternalism 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2015)
      Many people have insisted on an opposition between active choosing and paternalism, and in some cases, they are right to do so. But in many contexts, the opposition is illusory, because people do not want to choose actively. ...
    • A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2008)
      This paper critiques the proposed emergency legislation for spending $700 billion on purchasing financial firms' troubled assets to address the 2008 financial crisis. It also puts forward a superior alternative for advancing ...
    • Beyond Best Interests 

      Cohen, I. Glenn (The Minnesota Law Review Foundation, 2011)
      As Justice Douglas wrote in Skinner v. Oklahoma, procreation is one of the “basic civil rights of man.” Along with marriage it is “fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race” and the state’s interference ...
    • Beyond Biology: The Politics of Adoption & Reproduction 

      Bartholet, Elizabeth (1995)
      It is exciting simply to be having this conference focused on adoption law and policy. I remember some nine years ago starting to plan a course dealing with adoption issues and wondering whether I would be able to justify ...
    • Beyond Cheneyism and Snowdenism 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
      In the domain of national security, many people favor some kind of Precautionary Principle, insisting that it is far better to be safe than sorry, and hence that a range of important safeguards, including widespread ...
    • Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism 

      Desan, Christine (Harvard University Press, 2010)
    • Beyond Judicial Minimalism 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (2007)
      Many judges are minimalists. They favor rulings that are narrow, in the sense that they govern only the circumstances of the particular case, and also shallow, in the sense that they do not accept a deep theory of the legal ...
    • Beyond the Precautionary Principle 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (2003)
      The precautionary principle has been highly influential in legal systems all over the world. In its strongest and most distinctive forms, the principle imposes a burden of proof on those who create potential risks, and it ...
    • Bidding for Ballplayers: A Research Note 

      Nakazato, Minoru; Ramseyer, J. Mark (jointly published by the German-Japanese Association of Jurists (DJJV) and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law (MPI) in Hamburg, 2008)
      Is Japanese baseball a different sport from American baseball? In this short research note, we take a new approach to the question Robert Whiting posed so famously three decades ago. Reasoning that owners bid for players ...
    • Bilateralism, Multilateralism, and the Architecture of International Law 

      Blum, Gabriella (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2008)
      This paper studies the different roles, impact, and operation of bilateral treaties and multilateral treaties as structures within the architecture of international law. I observe that the preference for bilateralism or ...
    • Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory's impact on plant biodiversity 

      Naeem, S.; Prager, Case; Weeks, Brian; Varga, Alex; Flynn, Dan F. B.; Griffin, Kevin; Muscarella, Robert; Palmer, Matthew; Wood, Stephen; Schuster, William (The Royal Society, 2016)
      Biodiversity is inherently multidimensional, encompassing taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic, genetic, landscape and many other elements of variability of life on the Earth. However, this fundamental principle of ...
    • Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist 

      Kennedy, Randall Leroy (New Prospect, Inc., 2014)
      The economic meltdown that accompanied Obama to the White House (and probably played a major role in his initial election) devastated the earnings and assets of black Americans. Since his election, they have not recouped ...
    • Black on Brown 

      Sunstein, Cass Robert (2004)
      The most important and illuminating early writing on Brown v. Bd. of Education is a nine-page essay by Charles Black. Black memorably shows that segregation was a crucial part of a racial caste system. At the same time, ...
    • The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America 

      Hanson, Kathleen; Hanson, Jon (2006)
      This Article attempts to elucidate how our forebears, who were presumably as devoted to justice and liberty in their times as we are in ours, failed to condemn behaviors that are today widely viewed as patently oppressive, ...
    • The Blind Expert: A Litigant-Driven Solution to Bias and Error 

      Robertson, Christopher Tarver (2010)
      America spends hundreds of billions of dollars on its system of civil litigation, and expert witnesses appear in the vast majority of cases. Yet, litigants currently select and retain expert witnesses in ways that create ...
    • Book Review 

      Lanni, Adriaan M. (Temple University School of Law, 2010)