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The Aftermath Of Deindustrialization: The Meaning Of "Economic Restructuring" In Buffalo, New York, David C. Perry, Beverly Mclean

Buffalo Law Review

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Union-Community Relations In Buffalo: A Preliminary Assessment, Lawrence G. Flood

Buffalo Law Review

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Introduction, Peter Pitegoff

Buffalo Law Review

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Economic Development In Buffalo: Community, Change And Fragmentation, Susan C. Turner

Buffalo Law Review

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Buffalo Comes In From The Cold War: The Consequences For Communities And Firms Of Defense Budget Cuts, Sam Cole, Blake Strack

Buffalo Law Review

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Capital Mobility Versus Unity Of Purpose: Urban Redevelopment In Buffalo, N.Y. And Pittsburgh, Pa., Douglas G. Koritz

Buffalo Law Review

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Community Goals And Economic Development In Buffalo, New Yrk: Interviews With The Common Council, Catherine E. Armitage

Buffalo Law Review

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Social Transformation Theory, African Americans And The Rise Of Buffalo's Post-Industrial City, Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

Buffalo Law Review

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The Concentration Of Commercial Hazardous Waste Facilities In The Western New York Community, R. Nils Olsen Jr.

Buffalo Law Review

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Epilogue: Moving Towards Groundbreaking, Michael H. Frisch

Buffalo Law Review

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Environmental Accountability Beyond Compliance: Externalities And Accounting, Arthur J. Jacobson

Cardozo Law Review

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Economic Due Process Revisited, James W. Ely, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

In many constitutional histories the presentation of economic issues between 1880 and 1937 resembles a Victorian melodrama. A dastardly Supreme Court is pictured as frustrating noble reformers who sought to impose beneficent regulations on giant business enterprises.' The centerpiece in this tale of wickedness is Lochner v. New York.' Few Supreme Court decisions have been vilified more than Lochner. For years liberal commentators ritualistically denounced the Court's decision. The laissez-faire assumptions behind Lochner naturally were an anathema to scholars and judges favoring government intervention in the economy and redistribution of wealth. Worse yet, this example of judicial activism reflected an …

The Regulation Of Green Advertising: The State, The Market And The Environmental Good, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

In this paper I explore this most recent development in regulatory policy and, in particular, the role government plays when it chooses to use private markets (consumer, institutional and corporate) as regulatory instruments to produce and allocate environmental benefits. The privatization of environmental regulation by employing markets to deliver environmental benefits does not involve the implementation of public policy through executive or legislative action. Rather, it is achieved through a public choice to privatize the delivery of environmental regulation by permitting or encouraging decentralized economic power to respond to consumer demands for environmental quality.

An Economic Justification For Corporate Reorganizations, Charles Adams

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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A Redrafted Section I Of The Sherman Act, Robert H. Heidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Status And Incentive Aspects Of Judicial Decisions, Jeffrey E. Stake

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Cleaning Up Krakow: Poland's Ecological Crisis And The Political Economy Of International Environmental Assistance, Daniel H. Cole

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Relaxing Traditional Economic Assumptions And Values: Toward A New Disciplinary Discourse On Law, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Economics has been viewed traditionally as a discipline removed from other, "softer", fields of social analysis. Professor R. Malloy has fought to remove these barriers and encourage interdisciplinary dialogue. In a field previously dominated by normative values of majority power holders, a multidisciplinary approach allows for a more extensive examination of social trends and the question of innate human "rights". By relaxing the assumptions of traditional neoclassical economic analysis, one can gain a theoretical perspective that includes insights from multiple disciplines. This article reinforces Malloy's conceptualization of new social analysis, hoping to further this new interdisciplinary cooperation.

Normativity And The Politics Of Form, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Litigation Costs And The Economic Theory Of Tort Law, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

The economic theory of tort law has developed along two lines. The first and more traditional is positive theory, which justifies tort doctrine. The second is normative theory, which usually criticizes the operational efficiency of the tort system, and is the focus of this Article. This Article argues that once the dynamics of litigation are properly taken into account, all bets are off on the economic efficiency of tort law. The simple fact that litigation is a costly enterprise provides a rich source of inefficiencies with which the tort system must grapple.

Corporations, Markets, And Courts, Jeffrey N. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

The times they are a changin'. Vanguard firms of the 1980s takeover boom have announced associate layoffs and salary freezes because business is down. Bankruptcy and corporate reorganization are the hot new specialties as reflected in law school class size and law firm entrepreneurialism. Acquisition activity has fallen dramatically from the halcyon days of the 1980s. The gargantuan headline-grabbing hostile bid is now rare. In particular, the "boot-strap, bust-up" highly leveraged transaction that so engaged the passions of corporate managers and raiders now seems part of the history of corporate finance rather than its future.

Many forces have played a …

One Tax Piece Of The Savings And Loan Crisis: Can The Federal Home Loan Bank Board Use The Internal Revenue Cose To Bail Out The Ailing Savings And Loan Industry?, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In Cottage Savings Association v. Commissioner the Sixth Circuit delves into a little known aspect of the savings and loan crisis-the attempt by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to use the Internal Revenue Code ("Code") to help bolster its failing constituent thrifts. In the course of its analysis, the Sixth Circuit must articulate the requirements for transforming an economic loss into a deductible tax loss.

Recovery For Pure Economic Loss In Tort: Another Look At Robins Dry Dock V. Flint, Victor P. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

In Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co. v. Flint, the Supreme Court laid down the general proposition that claims for pure economic loss are not recoverable in tort. Although courts have sometimes ignored or distinguished Robins, its holding is still a central feature of tort law. In a recent en bane decision regarding claims by those injured by a chemical spill in the Mississippi River, the Fifth Circuit engaged in an extensive debate over the continued vitality of Robins and concluded (despite five dissenters) that it remained good law.

The Robins rule is overbroad, lumping together a number of …

The Economic Theory Of Politics And Legal Interpretation In The United States, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

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Economic Rents And Essential Facilities, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

This paper presents an economic analysis of the essential facility doctrine of antitrust. According to this doctrine, a firm or group of firms that possesses exclusive access to a cost-reducing facility must be prepared to share such access on fair terms with competitors.

Interest Group Politics And Judicial Behavior: Macey's Public Choice, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

The economic theory of government has lately gained the acceptance in legal circles that it has long enjoyed in political science and economics. The economic theory, also known as "public choice," analyzes and explains government action and private political activity according to the basic assumption of economics, that individuals respond to economic incentives in their environments in a self-interested manner. The economic theory is thus useful descriptively, to explain diverse political phenomena, and prescriptively, to help formulate reform strategy.

Family, Marriage, And The Same-Sex Couple, Lisa R. Zimmer

Cardozo Law Review

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The Strategic Structure Of Offer And Acceptance: Game Theory And The Law Of Contract Formation, Avery Katz

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this article is to promote a particular research program; namely, the use of game theory to analyze the law of contract formation. Although I will often simply speak of offer and acceptance in my discussion, I mean to refer to a broader set of issues than are commonly denoted by this doctrinal label. My program transcends the narrow issue of whether particular communications technically should be classified as offers and acceptances, and includes questions often analyzed under the rubrics of implication and interpretation. At its broadest, my argument addresses all legal rules that answer two types of …

The Role Of The Democratic And Republican Parties As Organizers Of Shadow Interest Groups, Jonathan R. Macey

Michigan Law Review

This article advances a new theory to explain the relationship between political parties and interest groups. Among the as yet unanswered questions that I resolve are: (1) why many politicians -both Republicans and Democrats - develop a reputation for "party loyalty" despite the parties' inability to employ any meaningful sanctions against politicians who deviate from the party line; (2) why candidates for public office run in contested primaries when running as an independent generally would be a less costly mechanism for getting on the ballot; (3) why the two major U.S. political parties continue to attract resources from contributors and …

More Lessons From Japan: End Industrywide Collective Bargaining?, Robert H. Lande, Richard O. Zerbe Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

The number of books and articles discussing Japanese management techniques with an eye to transplanting them to the United States is staggering. Americans understandably are impressed by Japanese efficiency and like to think the adoption of some of their techniques will aid our own industries. Often these proposals seem fanciful and fail to recognize the many differences between the two countries, their economic systems and cultures.