Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
Now showing items 1223-1242 of 1913
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Optimal Sanctions When Individuals Are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension
(University of Chicago Press, 1992)No abstract provided. -
An Optimal Tax System
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This review essay builds on this trait and offers a more explicit foundation for the report's ... -
The Optimist's Tale
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Option Backdating and Its Implications
(School of Law, Washington and Lee University, 2008)Thousands of US companies appear to have secretly backdated stock options. This paper analyzes three forms of secret option backdating: (1) the backdating of executives' option grants; (2) the backdating of non-executive ... -
Oracle v. PeopleSoft: A Case Study
(Students of the Harvard Law School, 2007)This case describes Oracle's hostile takeover bid to acquire PeopleSoft, which began with an unsolicited cash tender offer at $16.00 per share in June 2003 and ended with a negotiated deal at $26.50 per share in December ... -
Original Intent
(Green Bag, Inc., 2013) -
Originalism and Emergencies: A Reply to Lawson
(The Boston University School of Law, 2007) -
Originalist or Original: The Difficulties of Reconciling Citizens United with Corporate Law history
(2015)Citizens United has been the subject of a great deal of commentary, but one important aspect of the decision that has not been explored in detail is the historical basis for Justice Scalia’s claims in his concurring opinion ... -
Outsourcing Power: How Privatizing Military Efforts Challenges Accountability, Professionalism, and Democracy
(The Boston College Law School, 2005)Private contractors have played key roles in recent high-profile scandals. These scandals hint at the degree to which the U.S. military has increased the scope and scale of its reliance on private security companies in ... -
Over-Accountability
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)Although ensuring the “accountability” of agents to their principals is widely considered a core objective of institutional design, recent work in political economy has identified and elucidated an important class of ... -
The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup
(American Bar Association, 2001)This paper identifies problems with the ordered breakup of Microsoft that seem to have been completely overlooked by the government, the judge, and the commentators. The breakup order prohibits Bill Gates and other large ... -
Overreaction to Fearsome Risks
(Springer Verlag, 2014-09-22)Fearsome risks are those that stimulate strong emotional responses. Such risks, which usually involve high consequences, tend to have low probabilities, since life today is no longer nasty, brutish and short. In the face ... -
Overruling Home Rule
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Panel Discussion: Welfare Rights
(1979)