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Incentives and Contract Frames: Comment
(Mohr, 2012)Principal-agent problems are pervasive in economic settings. CEOs and shareholders, lawyers and clients, manufacturers and retailers, lenders and borrowers are all examples of settings in which moral hazard problems might ... -
Incentives and Government Relief for Risk
(Springer Verlag, 1991)Government relief is offered for a wide range of risks - - natural disaster, economic dislocation, sickness and injury. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with ... -
Incentives for Conservation Easements: The Charitable Deduction or a Better Way
(Duke University School of Law, 2011)Halperin talks about tax-policy concerns relating to the charitable deduction for conservation easement donations. The conflict of interest between charity and other owners raises a concern that the charitable deduction ... -
Incentives in the Supreme Court
(George Washington University, 2010)... That in itself would change the pool of prospective nominees, as some of those who would accept the job with the associated celebrity would find the overall compensation less attractive than the alternatives available ... -
Incentives to Invest in Litigation and the Superiority of the Class Action
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)We formally demonstrate the general case for class action in a rent-seeking contest model, explaining why separate action adjudication is biased in the defendant’s favor and collective adjudication is bias free. Separate ... -
The Income Tax as Insurance: The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of Medical Insurance Premiums
(California Law Review, 1991)Whether personal income tax deductions are appropriate refinements to the concept of income or are unwarranted tax expenditures continues to be the subject of debate. The casualty loss and medical expense deductions are ... -
Income Tax Deductions for Losses as Insurance
(American Economic Association, 1992)The federal income tax allows deductions for some categories of personal losses, notably for casualty losses (such as destruction of one's home or car) and medical expenses above a threshold. The latter, even with lower ... -
Income Taxation of Mutual Nonprofits
(Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 2006)Section 501 of the IRC exempts at least twenty-eight categories of nonprofit entities from income tax. Most attention is paid to Section 501(c)(3). Many of the organizations exempt from income tax under Section 501(c), ... -
The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism
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Incomplete Contracts and Signaling
(RAND, 1992)This article Presents a principal-agent model in which asymmetric information leads to contractual incompleteness. I show that in the presence of transactions costs, incompleteness may act as a signal of the principal's ... -
Incorporating ethical principles into clinical research protocols: a tool for protocol writers and ethics committees
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)A novel Protocol Ethics Tool Kit (‘Ethics Tool Kit’) has been developed by a multi-stakeholder group of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard. The purpose of the Ethics Tool ... -
Indefinite War: Unsettled International Law on the End of Armed Conflict
(The Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), 2017)Can we say, definitively, when an armed conflict no longer exists under international law? The short, unsatisfying answer is sometimes: it is clear when some conflicts terminate as a matter of international law, but a ... -
Indeterminate Confinement: Letting the Therapy Fit the Harm
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Indignation: Psychology, Politics, Law
(2007)Moral intuitions operate in much the same way as other intuitions do; what makes the moral domain is distinctive is its foundations in the emotions, beliefs, and response tendencies that define indignation. The intuitive ... -
Inequality and Indignation
(2002)Inequalities often persist because both the advantaged and the disadvantaged stand to lose from change. Despite the probability of loss, moral indignation can lead the disadvantaged to seek to alter the status quo, by ... -
The Inevitable Globalization of Constitutional Law
(Virginia Journal of International Law Association, 2009)This Essay examines the forces pushing the presently varying forms of domestic constitutional law toward each other, and the sources of and forms of resistance to that globalization (or convergence, or harmonization). After ... -
The Inevitable Instability of American Corporate Governance
(2004)American corporate governance faces two core instabilities. The first is the separation of ownership from control - distant and diffuse stockholders own, while concentrated management controls - a separation that creates ... -
Inexcusable Wrongs
(California Law Review Inc., 2015)Tort law has little patience for excuses. Criminal law is more forgiving—it recognizes nominate excuses such as duress and provocation, as well as innominate excuses that temper punishment. Excuses are also commonplace in ... -
The Influence of Antitakeover Statutes on Incorporation Choice: Evidence on the "Race" Debate and Antitakeover Overreaching
(University of Pennsylvania, 2002)Commentators have long debated whether competition among states for corporate charters represents a race to the top or a race to the bottom. Race-to-the-top advocates have recently gained ground in this debate on the basis ...