Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion
(Springer Verlag, 2005)Individuals’ risk preferences are estimated and employed in a variety of settings, notably including choices in financial, labor, and product markets. Recent work, especially in financial economics, provides estimates of ... -
The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 1994)No abstract provided. -
Valuing Life: A Plea for Disaggregation
(Duke University School of Law, 2004)Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life (VSL). This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant ... -
Variations for Mixed Voices
(University of Pennsylvania, 1989) -
Ventures in the China Trade An Analysis of China's Emerging Legal Framework for the Regulation of Foreign Investment
(1981)In this Article, Messrs. Alford and Birenbaum examine laws and regulations recently promulgated by the People's Republic of China to govern the conduct of business and investment in China. After establishing the cultural, ... -
"Verdict Most Just": The Modes of Classical Athenian Justice
(2004)Most comparative lawyers know a great deal about Roman law but almost nothing about the courts of classical Athens. This is no mystery: unlike Roman law, Athenian law produced no jurisprudence and very little legal doctrine, ... -
Videoconferencing: Learning Through Screens
(College of William and Mary, 2004) -
Violence against Women — A Challenge to the Supreme Court
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999) -
The Virtues of Simplicity
(Yale Law School, 2006) -
The Visionary Minimalist
(New Republic, 2008) -
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2010)The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing debate about regulatory ... -
War and International Law: Distinguishing the Military and Humanitarian Professions
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War for the Wrong Reasons: Lessons from Law
(2014)In Ethics for Enemies, Frances Kamm argues that, under certain conditions, it is mor-ally permissible for a state to launch a war for opportunistic reasons. We consider how law might shed light on Kamm’s argument. Part I ... -
War-Algorithm Accountability
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC), 2016)In this briefing report, we introduce a new concept — war algorithms — that elevates algorithmically-derived “choices” and “decisions” to a, and perhaps the, central concern regarding technical autonomy in war. We thereby ... -
Was Bush v. Gore a Human Rights Case?
(University of Minnesota Law School, 2008)The article discusses a court case on the Greek parliamentary election of 2004 wherein the Supreme Court of Greece decided on the contested election by ruling for a recalculation based on different rules. The ruling was ... -
Web Tactics
(Writers & Scholars International, 2009)Robert Faris and Jonathan Zittrain chart the highs and lows for free expression online in 2009: from the triumph over Green Dam to cyber attacks. -
The Web's Dark Energy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)