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Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment
(2018-02-12)
Actuarial risk assessments might be unduly perceived as a neutral way to counteract implicit bias and increase the fairness of decisions made at almost every juncture of the criminal justice system, from pretrial release ...
Transforming Punishment to Stem Tuberculosis and HIV in South African Prisons
(Harvard Chan School of Public Heath, 2020-05)
South Africa experiences the world’s highest HIV burden and one of the highest burdens for tuberculosis (TB). People in prison are particularly vulnerable to these diseases. Globally, and internally in South Africa, increased ...
The “Relationship Premium”: Should Cost- Benefit Analysis Include the Value of Human Connections?
(Environmental Law Institute, 2018-05)
People care enormously about what happens to those with whom they are close. Nonetheless, standard cost- benefit analyses usually measure only direct impacts on individuals, as well as sometimes the abstract preferences ...
A Compilation of Materials Apparently Reflective of States’ Views on International Legal Issues pertaining to the Use of Algorithmic and Data-reliant Socio-technical Systems in Armed Conflict
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2020-12)
This document is a compilation of materials that at least appear to be reflective of one or more states’ views on international legal issues pertaining to the actual or possible use of algorithmic and data-reliant ...
Nationwide shift to grass-fed beef requires larger cattle population
(IOP Publishing, 2018)
In the US, there is growing interest in producing more beef from pasture based systems, rather than grain-finishing feedlot systems due to the perception that it is more environmentally sustainable. Yet existing understanding ...
Why R&D Should Be Allocated To Subpart F and GILTI
(Tax Analysts, 2020-06-23)
In this article, the authors critically appraise the government’s proposal not to allocate research and development deductions to subpart F inclusions and global intangible low-taxed income for foreign tax credit limitation ...
Supplemental Brief of Amici Curiae Reuven Avi-Yonah, Lily Batchelder, Joshua Blank, Noel Cunningham, Victor Fleischer, Ari Glogower, David Kamin, Mitchell Kane, Michal Knoll, Rebecca Kysar, Leandra Lederman, Zachary Liscow, Ruth Mason, Susan Morse, Daniel Shaviro, Stephen Shay, John Steines, David Super, Clinton Wallace, Bret Wells in Support of Respondent-Appelant Commissioner, Altera Corp. v. Commissioner
(2018-09-28)
This amicus curiae brief in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner supports the government's position and the view of the majority in a 9th Circuit opinion issued on July 24, 2018 and later withdrawn. Amici are tax law professors ...
The Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and International Humanitarian Law: Preliminary Considerations for States
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2020-03-30)
In developing international humanitarian law (IHL), States have aimed in part to lay down the primary normative and operational framework pertaining to principled humanitarian action in situations of armed conflict. The ...