Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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The People Own Ideas!
(Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005) -
Percentage of What?
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Permanency Is Not Enough: Children Need the Nurturing Parents Found in International Adoption
(2011)Permanency in the form that truly serves children’s best interests will often be found only in international adoption. Permanency in dysfunctional birth families, or in institutions or typical foster care, does not provide ... -
Permissible Gun Regulations After Heller: Speculations About Method and Outcome
(University of California, 2009)This Essay speculates about the substance and timing of likely decisions by lower courts and the Supreme Court in dealing with issues left open by District of Columbia v. Heller. It suggests that lower courts will not ... -
Perpetuities or Taxes? Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust
(Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, 2006)By abolishing the Rule Against Perpetuities, 21 states have now validated perpetual trusts. The prevailing view among scholars is that enactment of the generation skipping transfer (GST) tax in 1986 prompted the movement ... -
Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds
(Matthew Bender, 2008)This chapter provides an accessible overview of our previous work on the impact of the abolition of the Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP) on trust fund situs. The implementation of the Generation Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax ... -
The Persuader: What Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrought
(F-R Pub. Corp., 2009) -
Philosophical Underpinnings of the First Amendment
(Loyola Law School; 1999, 2007) -
Piercing China's Corporate Veil
(Yale Law School, 2007) -
The Place of Reliance in Fraud
(The University of Arizona, 2006)To prevail on a claim of common law fraud, the plaintiff must prove reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation. This requirement is puzzling, given that, under many modern formulations of the tort, the plaintiff must ... -
Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot
(2005)This piece provides our amicus curiae brief in the case of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, which is now under consideration by the Second Circuit ... -
A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 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 ... -
Plato as Statesman
(Institute on Religion and Public Life, 2007) -
The Polarization of Extremes
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Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
(SAGE Publications, 2010)We analyze the interaction between electoral accountability and separation-of-powers by comparing three regimes: ‘Unilateral Authority’ (the President has exclusive decision-making power); ‘Mandatory Checks’ (the President ... -
Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing
(John Hopkins University Press, 2010)We conclude that policymakers and scholars that have been most optimistic about the impact of digital tools have over-emphasized the role of information, specifically access to alternative and independent sources of ...