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Title Vii: A Shift From Sex To Relationships, Victoria Schwartz Jan 2012

Title Vii: A Shift From Sex To Relationships, Victoria Schwartz

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Pay For Regulator Performance, M. Todd Henderson, Frederick Tung Jan 2012

Pay For Regulator Performance, M. Todd Henderson, Frederick Tung

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Few doubt that executive compensation arrangements encouraged the excessive risk taking by banks that led to the recent Financial Crisis. Accordingly, academics and lawmakers have called for the reform of banker pay practices. In this Article, we argue that regulator pay is to blame as well, and that fixing it may be easier and more effective than reforming banker pay. Regulatory failures during the Financial Crisis resulted at least in part from a lack of sufficient incentives for examiners to act aggressively to prevent excessive risk. Bank regulators are rarely paid for performance, and in atypical cases involving performance bonus …


Maritime Health: A Review With Suggestions For Research, Malcolm Maclachlan, Bill Kavanagh, Alison Kay Jan 2012

Maritime Health: A Review With Suggestions For Research, Malcolm Maclachlan, Bill Kavanagh, Alison Kay

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International maritime health has largely developed within the sphere of occupational health services and international health problems. We reviewed publications in the journal International Maritime Health from 2000 to 2010 to establish the coverage of the journal and the scope of research in maritime health. We identified six thematic categories: healthcare access, delivery and integration; telehealth; non-communicable diseases and physical health problems; communicable diseases; psychological functioning and health; and safety-related issues. We describe the research within these themes and report on their publication prominence. We also analyse the research in terms of its geographical focus, the population groups addressed and …


Miami's Medical-Legal Partnership: Preparing Lawyers And Physicians For Holistic Practice, Jonel Newman Jan 2012

Miami's Medical-Legal Partnership: Preparing Lawyers And Physicians For Holistic Practice, Jonel Newman

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Delegation In Immigration Law, Eric A. Posner, Adam B. Cox Jan 2012

Delegation In Immigration Law, Eric A. Posner, Adam B. Cox

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Immigration law both screens migrants and regulates the behavior of migrants after they have arrived. Both activities are information intensive because the migrant's "type" and the migrant's post-arrival activity are often forms of private information that are not immediately accessible to government agents. To overcome this information problem, the national government can delegate the screening and regulating functions. American immigration law, for example, delegates extensive authority to both private entities--paradigmatically, employers and families-and to the fifty states. From the government's perspective, delegation carries with it benefits and costs. On the benefit side, agents frequently have easy access to information about …


Forecasting The Flashpoints, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Jan 2012

Forecasting The Flashpoints, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Inflation Indicators, Jonathan Masur Jan 2012

Inflation Indicators, Jonathan Masur

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On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt Jan 2012

On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt

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Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Omri Ben-Shahar, Kyle D. Logue Jan 2012

Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Omri Ben-Shahar, Kyle D. Logue

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This Article explores the potential value of insurance as a substitute for government regulation of safety. Successful regulation of behavior requires information in setting standards, licensing conduct, verifying outcomes, and assessing remedies. In various areas, the private insurance sector has technological advantages in collecting and administering the information relevant to setting standards and could outperform the government in creating incentives for optimal behavior We explore several areas that are regulated more by private insurance than by government. In those areas, the role of the law diminishes to the administration of simple rules of absolute liability or no liability, and affected …


The Gap In Law Between Developmental Expectations And Educational Obligations, Emily Buss Jan 2012

The Gap In Law Between Developmental Expectations And Educational Obligations, Emily Buss

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The Role Of Accreditation Commissions In Higher Education: The Troublesome Case Of Dana College, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2012

The Role Of Accreditation Commissions In Higher Education: The Troublesome Case Of Dana College, Richard A. Epstein

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The Constitutional Conservatism Of The Warren Court, Justin Driver Jan 2012

The Constitutional Conservatism Of The Warren Court, Justin Driver

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Scholarly debate about the Warren Court casts a long shadow over modern constitutional law. The essential contours of this debate have now grown exceedingly familiar: where liberal law professors overwhelmingly heap praise upon the Warren Court, conservatives generally heap contempt. Although some liberals have begun contending that the Warren Court overstepped the bounds of judicial propriety, such concessions do not reconfigure the debate's fundamental terms. Conspicuously absent from scholarly discourse to date, however, is a sustained liberal argument contending that the Warren Court made substantial mistakes-not by going excessively far, but by going insufficiently far in its constitutional interpretations. This …


Equality, Procedural Justice, And The World Trade Organization, Adam S. Chilton, Ryan W. Davis Jan 2012

Equality, Procedural Justice, And The World Trade Organization, Adam S. Chilton, Ryan W. Davis

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Aggregation And Law, Ariel Porat, Eric A. Posner Jan 2012

Aggregation And Law, Ariel Porat, Eric A. Posner

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If a plaintiff brings two claims, each with a 0.4 probability of being valid, the plaintiff will usually lose, even if the claims are based on independent events, and thus the probability of at least one of the claims being valid is 0.64. If a plaintiff brings two independent claims, and neither of them alleges misconduct sufficient to justify a remedy, the plaintiff will usually lose, even if the claims jointly allege sufficient wrongdoing to justify a remedy. Thus, as a general rule, courts refuse to engage in what we call factual aggregation (the first case) and normative aggregation (the …


When To Hold, When To Fold, And When To Reshuffle: The Art Of Decisionmaking On A Multi-Member Court, Diane P. Wood Jan 2012

When To Hold, When To Fold, And When To Reshuffle: The Art Of Decisionmaking On A Multi-Member Court, Diane P. Wood

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This Essay explores the instrumental and normative considerations that prompt judges to publish separate opinions. After discussing the traditions of separate writing in American judicial practice, the author provides a contemporary judge's perspective on the aims of separate opinions and on the cost-benefit analysis that judges invariably undertake when contemplating whether to write a concurrence or dissent. Turning to her own work on the Seventh Circuit, the author then identifies three broad categories of dissents she has penned over the past sixteen years: "principle-based dissents, " "'process-based dissents, " and "accuracy-focused dissents. " The Essay concludes by suggesting that a …


Deference To The Executive In The United States After September 11: Congress, The Courts, And The Office Of Legal Counsel, Eric A. Posner Jan 2012

Deference To The Executive In The United States After September 11: Congress, The Courts, And The Office Of Legal Counsel, Eric A. Posner

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Regulation, Unemployment, And Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner Jan 2012

Regulation, Unemployment, And Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner

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A Heartfelt, Albeit Largely Statistical, Salute To Judge Richard D. Cudahy, Richard A. Posner Jan 2012

A Heartfelt, Albeit Largely Statistical, Salute To Judge Richard D. Cudahy, Richard A. Posner

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This Essay elaborates on Judge Cudahy's distinction as a judge and discusses our relationship and the broader issue of the management of disagreement, particularly ideological disagreement, in an appellate court. The Essay departs from the usual form of tribute essays by organizing its discussion around statistics and focusing on more general issues of judicial performance. These statistics reveal that Judge Cudahy has been an unusually prolific judge, penning separate opinions at a higher rate than his colleagues both nationwide and on the Seventh Circuit. The numbers also reveal that Judge Cudahy 's dissent rate has declined markedly over time. After …


The Rise And Fall Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner Jan 2012

The Rise And Fall Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner

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Judicial self-restraint, once a rallying cry for judges and law professors, has fallen on evil days. It is rarely invoked or advocated. This Essay traces the rise and fall of its best-known variant restraint in invalidating legislative action as unconstitutional-as advocated by the "School of Thayer, " consisting of James Bradley Thayer and the influential judges and law professors who claimed to be his followers. The Essay argues, among other things, that both the strength and the weakness of the School was an acknowledged absence of a theory of how to decide a constitutional case. The rise of constitutional theory …


Communities And The California Commission, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Jan 2012

Communities And The California Commission, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Negligence, Strict Liability, And Responsibility For Climate Change, David A. Weisbach Jan 2012

Negligence, Strict Liability, And Responsibility For Climate Change, David A. Weisbach

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Law In The Hands Of The Politicians: The Cycles Of American Politics, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2012

Law In The Hands Of The Politicians: The Cycles Of American Politics, Richard A. Epstein

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Showcase Panel Iv: A Federal Sunset Law, Frank H. Easterbrook, William N. Eskridge Jr., Philip K. Howard, Thomas W. Merrill Jan 2012

Showcase Panel Iv: A Federal Sunset Law, Frank H. Easterbrook, William N. Eskridge Jr., Philip K. Howard, Thomas W. Merrill

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The Institution Matching Canon, Aziz Huq Jan 2012

The Institution Matching Canon, Aziz Huq

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This Article identifies and analyzes a transsubstantive tool of constitutional doctrine that to date has escaped scholarly attention. The Article terms this device the "institution matching" canon. It can be stated briefly as follows: When the government makes a decision that may impinge upon a liberty or equality interest-which may or may not be directly judicially enforced otherwise-a court should determine whether the component of government that made the decision has actual competence in and responsibility for the policy justifications invoked to curtail the interest. If not, the court should reject the government action but leave open the possibility of …


Enforcing (But Not Defending) Unconstitutional Laws, Aziz Huq Jan 2012

Enforcing (But Not Defending) Unconstitutional Laws, Aziz Huq

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When should the executive decline to defend in court a federal law it has determined to be unconstitutional, yet still enforce that same statute against third parties? The question is prompted by the Obama administration's decision to enforce, but not defend in federal court, Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA "). But the DOMA Section 3 decision is not the first time the executive has bifurcated the enforcement of a statute from its defense before the bench. The practice of enforcement-litigation gaps dates back at least to World War I. Commentators tend to judge the practice by …


Beyond Doma: Choice Of State Law In Federal Statutes, William Baude Jan 2012

Beyond Doma: Choice Of State Law In Federal Statutes, William Baude

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The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been abandoned by the executive and held unconstitutional by courts, so it is time to think about what will be left in its place. Federal law frequently asks whether a couple is married. But marriage is primarily a creature of state law, and states differ as to who may marry. The federal government has no system for deciding what state’s law governs a marriage, though more than a thousand legal provisions look to marital status, more than a hundred thousand same-sex couples report being married, and many of those marriages ultimately cross state …


Constitutional Ratemaking And The Affordable Care Act: A New Source Of Vulnerability, Richard A. Epstein, Paula M. Stannard Jan 2012

Constitutional Ratemaking And The Affordable Care Act: A New Source Of Vulnerability, Richard A. Epstein, Paula M. Stannard

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Brown, Governor Of California Et Al V. Plata Et Al., Mary Rogan Jan 2012

Brown, Governor Of California Et Al V. Plata Et Al., Mary Rogan

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The case of Brown, Governor of California et at v. Plata et al (hereinafter Plata) is one of the most eye-catching decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in recent times. The result in itself – the upholding of an order of a Californian District Court to reduce the state’s prison population by up to 46,000 prisoners – would warrant attention. The reasoning of the Court and the differences between the majority and minority are also, however, most significant. The willingness of the Court to uphold the drastic measure of ordering a sizeable reduction in the Californian prison …


The Falsity-Scienter Inference, Wendy Gerwick Couture Jan 2012

The Falsity-Scienter Inference, Wendy Gerwick Couture

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The Death Penalty And The Mentally Ill: A Selected And Annotated Bibliography, Jean Mattimoe Jan 2012

The Death Penalty And The Mentally Ill: A Selected And Annotated Bibliography, Jean Mattimoe

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The United States Supreme Court over the last decade has selectively whittled away at the scope and availability of the death penalty by exempting certain groups from execution under the Eighth Amendment. In 2002 the court ruled that executing mentally retarded criminals violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. In 2005 the court ruled that the Constitution forbids the execution of individuals who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes. Currently there is an active debate on whether to extend the categorical exemptions created by the Court to the mentally ill. At the forefront …