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University of Georgia School of Law

2021

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Are We (Americans) All International Realists Now?, Harlan G. Cohen Jan 2021

Are We (Americans) All International Realists Now?, Harlan G. Cohen

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Is American international law distinctly legal realist? The claim is often made, but underexplored. What would it mean for American international law scholarship and practice to be legal realist in its orientation? Where would such an orientation come from, and what do those origin stories mean for current international law work? Are there common realist-inspired approaches within the varied schools of American international law scholarship? Does wielding those approaches produce distinctly American views on international law doctrine, its operation, or its function? And if American international law scholarship and practice is, in these ways, somewhat distinct, what does it mean …


One Child Town: The Health Care Exceptionalism Case Against Agglomeration Economies, Elizabeth Weeks Jan 2021

One Child Town: The Health Care Exceptionalism Case Against Agglomeration Economies, Elizabeth Weeks

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This Article offers an extended rebuttal to the suggestion to move residents away from dying communities to places with greater economic promise. Rural America, arguably, is one of those dying places. A host of strategies aim to shore up those communities and make them more economically viable. But one might ask, “Why bother?” In similar vein, David Schleicher’s provocative 2017 Yale Law Journal article, Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation urged dismantling a host of state and local government laws operating as barriers to migration by Americans from failing economies to robust agglomeration economies. But Schleicher said little …