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The Kids Aren’T Alright: Rethinking The Law Student Skills Deficit, Rebecca Flanagan
The Kids Aren’T Alright: Rethinking The Law Student Skills Deficit, Rebecca Flanagan
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This article examines empirical research on the changes in undergraduate education since the 1960’s and discusses the challenges facing law schools admitting underprepared students.
Can Cost-Benefit Analysis Help Consumer Protection Laws? Or At Least Benefit Analysis?, Jeff Sovern
Can Cost-Benefit Analysis Help Consumer Protection Laws? Or At Least Benefit Analysis?, Jeff Sovern
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Cost-benefit analysis is often troubling to consumer advocates. But this Article argues that in some circumstances it may help consumers. The Article gives several examples of supposed consumer protections that have protected consumers poorly, if at all. It also argues that before adopting consumer protections, lawmakers should first attempt to determine whether the protections will work. The Article suggests that because lawmakers are unlikely to adopt multiple solutions to the same problem, one cost of ineffective consumer protections is a kind of opportunity cost, in that ineffective consumer protections might appear to make adoption of effective ones unnecessary. Ironically, such …