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Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law–Growth Nexus
(American Economic Association, 2009)Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam, in the ... -
Financial Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment
(2014-09-24)Many regulators have concluded that cost-benefit analysis is the best available method for capturing the welfare effects of regulations. It is therefore understandable that in recent years, some people have been interested ... -
Firms Gone Dark
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)The securities laws currently permit certain firms to exit the mandatory disclosure system even though their shares are held by hundreds (or even thousands) of investors and continue to be publicly traded. Such exiting ... -
The First (and Last) Term of the Roberts Court
(TU Law Digital Commons, 2006) -
The First Amendment and Cognition: A Response
(Duke University School of Law, 1989) -
The First Amendment and Commercial Speech
(The Boston College Law School, 2012)This Article examines the constitutionality of regulating commercial speech. Keeping in mind traditional First Amendment values, this Article squares the regulation of commercial speech with the justifications that accompany ... -
The First Amendment and Political Risk
(Oxford University Press, 2012)First Amendment doctrine is at its core about the correct response to the fact that speech can increase the risk of social harm. First Amendment risk varies along several dimensions, including distribution of risk, its ... -
First Amendment Common Sense
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Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)There are more than 500,000 elected officials in the United States, 96 percent of whom serve in local governments. Electoral density - the number of elected officials per capita or per governmental unit - varies greatly ... -
Fiscal Federalism and the Deductibility of State and Local Taxes in a Federal Income Tax
(Virginia Law Review Association, 1996)Whether state and local taxes are deductible is believed to have important effects on revenue, tax equity, and the operation of state and local governments. This Article's analysis of deductibility draws on previous work ... -
Fitting the Ethics to the Forum: A Proposal for Process-Enabling Ethical Codes
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Five Theses on Identity Politics
(Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy, 2005) -
Fixing Bankers Pay
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2009)This essay – written for a special issue of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Daedalus journal on lessons from the financial crisis – discusses how bankers’ pay should be fixed. I describe two distinct sources of ... -
Fixing Freeze-outs
(Yale Law School, 2005)Freezeout transactions, in which a controlling shareholder buys out the minority shareholders, have occurred more frequently since the stock market downturn of 2000 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. While freezeouts were ... -
Fixing Public Sector Finances: The Accounting and Reporting Lever
(UCLA L. Rev., 2015)The finances of many states, cities, and other localities are in dire straits. In this Article, we argue that partial responsibility for this situation lies with the outdated and ineffective financial reporting regime for ... -
Fixing Public Sector Finances: The Accounting and Reporting Lever
(Harvard Law School, 2015)The finances of many states, cities, and other localities are in dire straits. In this Article, we argue that partial responsibility for this situation lies with the outdated and ineffective financial reporting regime for ... -
Fixing the internet
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Flag Protection Opponents Cling to Empty Excuses
(Official publication of the American Legion, 2005)A large majority of the US Senate is sending flag amendment to the states for its approval by representatives of the people, but a few swing senators are coming up with old excuses for stifling a uniquely democratic process ...