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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
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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
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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 ... -
The Use of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement of Litigation
(RAND, 2003)Many settlement contracts in litigation involving multiple plaintiffs (or multiple defendants) in- clude “most-favored-nation” (MFN) clauses. If an early settlement includes an MFN and the defendant settles later with ... -
Using Cross-practice Collaboration to Meet the Evolving Legal Needs of Local Food Entrepreneurs
(American Bar Association, 2013)This article begins by highlighting several of the legal barriers commonly faced by local food businesses. The article then demonstrates that policy lawyers and transactional lawyers can effectively collaborate to improve ... -
Using Options to Divide Value in Corporate Bankruptcy
(Elsevier, 2000)This paper revisits the proposal to use options in corporate bankruptcy that was put forward in Bebchuk (1988). According to the proposed procedure, corporate bankruptcy should be implemented through the distribution to ... -
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.