Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Title
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The Uneasy Case for Product Liability
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2013-07-30)In this Article we compare the benefits of product liability to its costs and conclude that the case for product liability is weak for a wide range of products. One benefit of product liability is that it can induce firms ... -
The Unexceptional U.S. Human Rights RUDs
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Unfreezing Credit Markets
(Harvard John M. Olin Center, 2008)Despite the large infusion of capital into the financial sector and low interest rates, the flow of financing to operating firms has failed to return to normal levels. One explanation suggested is that banks still lack ... -
Unhelpful Abstractions and the Standard View
(2015)It is not fruitful to puzzle over the question whether economists and others ‘favor’ or ‘lean’ toward the regulatory or welfare state; that is an unhelpful and confusing question, one that orients people in the wrong way. ... -
An Unhurried View of Private Ordering in Information Transactions
(Vanderbilt Law School, 2000) -
Unions, Corporations, and Political Opt-Out Rights After 'Citizens United'
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2012)Citizens United upends much of campaign finance law, but it maintains at least one feature of that legal regime: the equal treatment of corporations and unions. Prior to Citizens United, that is, corporations and unions ... -
Universal Health Insurance and the Effect of Cost Containment on Mortality Rates: Strokes and Heart Attacks in Japan
(Blackwell Publishing, 2009)For more than four decades, Japan has offered universal health insurance. Despite the demand subsidy entailed, it has kept costs low by regulatorily capping the amounts it pays doctors, particularly for the most modern and ... -
Universal Resident Suffrage: A Liberal Defense
(University of Pennsylvania, 1982) -
Unlikely Alliances from Woodstock to Wounded Knee
(2015)"Pride," a 2014 award-winning independent film, tells the true story of the unlikely alliance between lesbian and gay activists and striking British coal miners in 1984. The National Mineworkers Union feared negative press ... -
Unpacking the State’s Reputation
(2009)International law scholars debate when international law matters to states, how it matters, and whether we can improve compliance. One of the few areas of agreement is that fairly robust levels of compliance can be achieved ... -
Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability
(University of Texas School of Law, 2009)The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a tremendous success story. This view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent system: the standards by which drugs are deemed ... -
Unrecognized Victims: Sexual Violence Against Men in Conflict Settings Under International Law
(University of Wisconsin, 2009)This article casts light on the international law aspects of a largely unrecognized occurrence in armed conflict: sexual violence against men. The article discusses causes and consequences of such violence, and assesses ... -
The Unselfish Gene
(Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 2011)For generations, we have operated on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally selfish, and so we have built systems and organizations around monetary incentives, rewards, and punishments. That hasn't always worked ... -
Upstanders, Whistle-Blowers, and Rescuers
(2014)I will explore several ways people can be upstanders; reasons why people are not upstanders; and potential collective efforts that could make it easier or more likely that people become upstanders. I begin though with a ... -
Urban Law School Graduates in Large Law Firms
(Southwestern University School of Law, 2007) -
The US Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment
(2014)This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the ... -
The US International Tax Reforms: Competition and Convergence, Pay-Offs and Policy Failures
(2018-11)The recent U.S. international tax reforms are a hodgepodge of nominal and effective tax rate reductions, a poorly designed export subsidy and unnecessarily complex revenue raising tax base protections. The most significant ...