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The Origin Of Parental Rights: Labor, Intent, And Fathers, Dara E. Purvis Apr 2014

The Origin Of Parental Rights: Labor, Intent, And Fathers, Dara E. Purvis

Florida State University Law Review

Most theories of parentage fail to explain the genesis of the right to parent—for example, why does a biological relationship generate parental rights? This Article shows that the law of parental rights mirrors theories of acquiring property, and that the law has shifted over time, from favoring a property right based in genetics to a Lockean theory of property rights earned through labor. The growth of Lockean labor-based theories is epitomized in reforms to parentage laws that incorporate functional theories of parenting, meaning that adults who perform caretaking work that creates a significant relationship with children are recognized as legal …


Capital Rigidities, Latent Externalities, Shi-Ling Hsu Apr 2014

Capital Rigidities, Latent Externalities, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

Capital, one of two fundamental inputs to production, is critical to economic growth. As such, legal rules and institutions generally seek to create more of it, and they also seek to protect existing capital from policy changes. However, capital is often durable, and during its natural life, information may emerge pointing to negative externalities resulting from operation of that capital. Legal rules and institutions, in seeking to stimulate and sustain economic growth by promoting and protecting capital, thus tend to induce the creation of excess capital. This abundance of capital creates excess resistance to new regulation or policy reform, as …


A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Sugary Drink Regulation In New York City, Shi-Ling Hsu Apr 2014

A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Sugary Drink Regulation In New York City, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

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Tax Favors For Philanthropy: Should Our Republic Underwrite De Tocqueville's Democracy?, Rob Atkinson Jan 2014

Tax Favors For Philanthropy: Should Our Republic Underwrite De Tocqueville's Democracy?, Rob Atkinson

Scholarly Publications

This article critically reviews the current rationales for the federal income tax system's favorable treatment of philanthropy, gives those rationales a new descriptive synthesis based on de Tocqueville's account of American democracy, and offers a normative alternative based on neo-classical ethical and political theory. It first identifies the two basic normative questions: What is the function of philanthropy that warrants favorable tax treatment, and how well does favorable tax treatment advance that function? It then examines the answers of three distinct phases of normative tax theory: the traditional subsidy thesis, the antithetical technical definition of income theory, and a set …