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Observational Limits On Terrestrial-Sized Inner Planets Around The Cm Draconis System Using The Photometric Transit Method With A Matched-Filter Algorithm, Laurance R. Doyle, Hans Deeg, Valerij Kozhevnikov, Zoran Ninkov, Et Al.

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A lightcurve of the eclipsing binary CM Draconis has been analyzed for the presence of transits of planets of size >= 2.5 Earth-radii (Re), with periods of 60 days or less, and in co-planar orbits around the binary system. About 400 million model lightcurves, representing transits from planets with periods ranging from 7 to 60 days, have been matched/correlated against these data. This process we call the "transit detection algorithm" or TDA. The resulting `transit-statistics' for each planet candidate allow the quantification of detection probabilities, and of false alarm rates. Our current lightcurve of CM Dra has a coverage of …

Law And Regret (Reviewing E. Allan Farnsworth, Changing Your Mind: The Law Of Regretted Decisions (1998)), Eric A. Posner

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Timing Corporate Disclosures To Maximize Performance-Based Remuneration: A Case Of Misaligned Incentives?, Charles M. Yablon, Jennifer Hill

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This Article takes a close look at the potential misalignment of interests created by managers' traditional discretion over the timing and content of corporate disclosures and managers' new incentives, created by performance-based compensation, to utilize that discretion to maximize the value of their own compensation. It examines recent studies that strongly suggest that CEOs are manipulating disclosure to increase their own compensation. It then considers the various ways such manipulation can occur, concluding that all but the most egregious forms of disclosure manipulation by management are either legal or effectively insulated from legal redress. The Article then examines the rationales …

A Response To Professor Benkler, Marci A. Hamilton

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Professor Hamilton explores the constitutional complexity uncovered by Professor Benkler in his piece, Constitutional Bounds of Database Protection: The Role of Judicial Review in the Creation and Definition of Private Rights in Information. Specifically, Professor Hamilton highlights that our democratic structure is characterized by representation rather than self-rule. In doing so, she refocuses the role of information in the political process and highlights that different types of information require different levels of access. Professor Hamilton's analysis further illustrates how an imprecise use of terminology may lead to incorrect conclusions regarding information jurisprudence. Through her more refined lens, Professor Hamilton reconsiders …

Criminal Prosecution And Section 1983, Barry Scheck

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The article explores the intricate relationship between criminal prosecutions of police officers and subsequent Section 1983 civil rights claims. Professor Barry C. Scheck examines how the outcomes of criminal cases significantly influence civil litigation, highlighting challenges such as the "blue wall of silence," racial profiling, and legal strategies like Monell claims. The thesis underscores the strategic importance of federal intervention and the use of pattern and practice actions to address systemic issues in law enforcement.

Section 1983 Custom Claims And The Code Of Silence, Myriam E. Gilles

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Rationality In Law And Economics Scholarship, Jeanne L. Schroeder

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Jeanne L. Schroeder critiques Richard Posner's conception of rationality in law and economics, arguing that his broad and evolving definition dilutes the concept, rendering it too vague and analytically weak. She advocates for a more nuanced approach that integrates psychological insights and acknowledges the limitations of traditional economic models. Schroeder emphasizes the need for empirical accuracy and theoretical rigor, challenging Posner's dismissal of behavioral economics and his reliance on evolutionary biology for explanations of irrational behavior.

Is Relevant Conduct Relevant - Reconsidering The Guidelines Approach To Real Offense Sentencing, David Yellen

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The Cash Balance Controversy, Edward A. Zelinsky

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On The Road To Somewhere With Jack Kerouac, Eamon Maher

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Book Review (Reviewing Jeremy Waldron, Law And Disagreement (1999)), Richard A. Posner

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In Law and Disagreement, Jeremy Waldron, born and educated in New Zealand and trained in England, mounts a powerful argument in favor of legislation as a legitimate source of authority and correspondingly denigrates the American faith in judicial review. Waldron claims among other things that a legislature's inability to achieve consensus enables legislation to resolve disputes in a way that preserves the dignity and self-respect of losers in the policy struggle. In this Book Review Essay, Judge Posner commends Waldron for his impressive criticisms of the theoretical basis for the American faith in judicial review. At the same time, he …

Book Review (Reviewing Jeremy Waldron, Law And Disagreement (1999)), Richard A. Posner

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Two Rank Order Tests For M-Ary Detection, Viswanath Annampedu, Vladimir V. Roganov, Ramanarayanan Viswanathan

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We consider a general M-ary detection problem where, given M groups of L samples each, the problem is to identify which unique group of L samples have come from the signal hypothesis. The optimal likelihood ratio test is unrealizable, when the joint distribution of ML samples is not completely known. In this paper we consider two rank order types of tests termed as the modified rank test (MRT) and the modified rank test with row sort (MRTRS). We examine through simulation, the small sample probability of error performances of MRT and MRTRS for detecting a signal among contaminants. Numerically …

John Broderick : Irish Novelist In The European Tradition, Eamon Maher

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Breaking The Code Of Silence: Rediscovering "Custom" In Section 1983 Municipal Liability, Myriam E. Gilles

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Can Informed Consent Preserve The Integrity Of Mediation?, Maureen Laflin

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Equal Taxation: A Commentary, John A. Miller

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Preserving The Integrity Of Mediation Through The Adoption Of Ethical Rules For Lawyer-Mediators, Maureen Laflin

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Prosecuting Violence/Reconstructing Community, Anthony V. Alfieri

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For two centuries, the private violence of American history has paraded into courts for public trial. Often dramatized by the spectacle of rape and murder, the public trials of private violence increasingly are seen to decide the fates of both the accused and the victim of crime. The fate of community, whether the community of the victim, the accused, or the public, seems at first blush untouched by such trials. Like victims and their families, however, communities struck by violence suffer profound loss. That loss is expressed in the destruction of public discourse, reason, and citizenship. This public ruin is …

The Death Of Privacy?, A. Michael Froomkin

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The rapid deployment of privacy-destroying technologies by governments and businesses threatens to make informational privacy obsolete. The first part of this article describes a range of current technologies to which the law has yet to respond effectively. These include: routine collection of transactional data, growing automated surveillance in public places, deployment of facial recognition technology and other biometrics, cell-phone tracking, vehicle tracking, satellite monitoring, workplace surveillance, Internet tracking from cookies to "clicktrails", hardware-based identifiers, intellectual property-protecting "snitchware," and sense-enhanced searches that allow observers to see through everything from walls to clothes. The cumulative and reinforcing effect of these technologies may …

Internet Sexual Predators: Protecting Children In The Global Community, Madeleine M. Plasencia

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The Internet, serving as the largest network of computers in the world, has provided the horizontal parallax over which all can participate in communication and transaction, education and entertainment4 It also serves a community of participants and beneficiaries whose goals are not always shared or legal. The rise of this advanced technology has led to a new "red light district."

Unlike the physical spaces available for the distribution of pornography and sexual favors for money, the Internet, with its lack of structure, has led to an unimaginable amount of pornography available for any on-line spectator.' Information necessary for consummation of …

On Philosophy And Economics, Cass R. Sunstein

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Standing For Animals (With Notes On Animal Rights) A Tribute To Kenneth L. Karst, Cass R. Sunstein

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Focal Point Theory Of Expressive Law, Richard H. Mcadams

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The Treaty Power And American Federalism, Part Ii, Curtis A. Bradley

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In an article published in this Review two years ago, I described and critiqued what I called the "nationalist view" of the treaty power. Under this view, the national government has the constitutional power to enter into treaties, and thereby create binding national law by virtue of the Supremacy Clause, without regard to either subject matter or federalism limitations. This view is reflected in the writings of a number of prominent foreign affairs law scholars, as well as in the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law of the United States. In my article, I argued that this …

Ironing Out The Flat Tax, David A. Weisbach

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While the Flat Tax has attracted substantial attention, proponents of the tax have not given any details of its implementation. Without this detail, evaluation of the tax is difficult. Claims of simplicity may be false. The efficiency claims for the Flat Tax rely on its relative unavoidability and its cleanly stated economic incentives, but without details, these claims cannot be evaluated Moreover, the distribution of the tax burden will be affected by its implementation. This article attempts to fill in the gap by considering the design issues presented by the Flat Tax. A wide variety of issues are considered, including …

Mass Incarceration: Perspectives On U.S. Imprisonment, Randolph N. Stone

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Information And Antitrust Antitrust In The Information Age, Frank H. Easterbrook

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The Necessity For Constrained Deliberation, Richard A. Epstein

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The Economics Of Tort Law: A Hurried And Partial Overview, Richard A. Epstein

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