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As Greece Goes, So Goes The E.U.: Defending Europe With A Sovereign Debt Restructuring Framework, Elizabeth H. Dahill May 2013

As Greece Goes, So Goes The E.U.: Defending Europe With A Sovereign Debt Restructuring Framework, Elizabeth H. Dahill

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

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Deconstructing Disaster, Justin Pidot May 2013

Deconstructing Disaster, Justin Pidot

BYU Law Review

Over time, we have grown increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Each decade, economic losses from such disasters more than double as people continue to build homes, businesses, and other physical infrastructure in hazardous places. Yet public policy has thus far failed to address the unique problems posed by natural disasters. This Article takes a first step toward improving public policy by offering a paradigm for understanding its failures, suggesting that three categories of obstacles obstruct sensible government regulation. Drawing from philosophy, cognitive psychology, history, anthropology, and political science, this Article identifies and analyzes three categories of obstacles to disaster policy-symbolic …