This series is a general repository of manuscripts and articles demonstrating the strength and breadth of the legal scholarship and cross-disciplinary studies at Penn Law.
Submissions from 2008
Introducing a "Different Lives" Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being, Matthew D. Adler and Paul Dolan
Confidentiality: An Expectation in Health Care, Anita L. Allen
The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science, Anita L. Allen
The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit, Anita L. Allen
Undressing Difference: the Hijab in the West, Anita L. Allen
Hate Speech, C. Edwin Baker
The First Amendment and Commercial Speech, C. Edwin Baker
Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, Tom Baker
Transparency through Insurance: Mandates Dominate Discretion, Tom Baker
Engaging Capital Emotions, Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas
The Heart Has Its Value: The Death Penalty's Justifiable Persistence, Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas
Exacerbating Injustice, Stephanos Bibas
Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies, Stephanos Bibas
Judicial Fact-Finding at Sentencing, Stephanos Bibas
Political Versus Administrative Justice, Stephanos Bibas
Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, Stephanos Bibas
Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of their Performance*, Jonathan C. Borck, Cary Coglianese, and Jennifer Nash
Evaluating the Social Effects of Environmental Leadership Programs, Jonathan C. Borck, Cary Coglianese, and Jennifer Nash
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Context: A Preliminary View, Stephen B. Burbank
The Argentine Financial Crisis: State Liability Under BITs and the Legitimacy of the ICSID System, William W. Burke-White
Shaping the Contours of Domestic Justice: The International Criminal Court and an Admissibility Challenge in the Uganda Situation, William W. Burke-White and Scott Kaplan
The Immigration Paradox: Alien Workers and Distributive Justice, Howard F. Chang
Director Elections and the Role of Proxy Advisors, Stephen Choi, Jill Fisch, and Marcel Kahan
Policymaking Under Pressure: The Perils of Incremental Responses to Climate Change, Cary Coglianese and Jocelyn D’Ambrosio
Transparency and Public Participation in the Rulemaking Process, Cary Coglianese, Heather Kilmartin, and Evan Mendelson
Government Clubs: Theory and Evidence from Voluntary Environmental Programs, Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash
The Law and Economics of Environmental Federalism: Europe and the United States Compared, Michael G. Faure and Jason S. Johnston
Cause for Concern: Causation and Federal Securities Fraud, Jill Fisch
Climate Change Confusion and the Supreme Court: the Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, Jason S. Johnston
Embattled CEOs, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bondholder Rights, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
How to Prevent Hard Cases from Making Bad Law: Bear Stearns, Delaware and the Strategic Use of Comity, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Business Taxes and International Competitiveness, Michael S. Knoll
International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes, Michael S. Knoll
Samuel Zell, the Chicago Tribune, and the Emergence of the S ESOP: Understanding the Tax Advantages and Disadvantages of S ESOPs, Michael S. Knoll
Taxation and the Competitiveness of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Do Taxes Encourage Sovereign Wealth Funds to Invest in the United States?, Michael S. Knoll
The Taxation of Private Equity Carried Interests: Estimating the Revenue Effects of Taxing Profit Interests as Ordinary Income, Michael S. Knoll
The Freedom of Information Act and the Ecology of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer
Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living and Tort Law Incentives, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Michele Mathes, and Nadia N. Sawicki
Torts and Innovation, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Do Effective Non-lethal Weapons Make the Use of Firearms Unlawful and the Second Amendment Irrelevant?, Paul H. Robinson
Empirical Desert, Paul H. Robinson
Objective Versus Subjective Justification: A Case Study in Function and Form in Constructing a System of Criminal Law Theory, Paul H. Robinson
Shoot to Stun, Paul H. Robinson
The Difficulties of Deterrence as a Distributive Principle, Paul H. Robinson
Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World, Kermit Roosevelt III
Polyphonic Stare Decisis: Listening to non-Article III Actors, Kermit Roosevelt
Health Law’s Coherence Anxiety, Theodore Ruger
Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Statutes, Nadia N. Sawicki
Governance in the Ruins, David A. Skeel Jr.
The Paths of Christian Legal Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr.
The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr.
Rethinking Broadband Internet Access, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo
Toward a Unified Theory of Access to Local Telephone Systems, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo
Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure, Amy L. Wax
The Discriminating Mind: Define It, Prove It, Amy L. Wax
Against Financial Literacy Education, Lauren E. Willis
Evidence and Ideology in Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Education, Lauren E. Willis
Network Neutrality, Consumers, and Innovation, Christopher S. Yoo
The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective, Christopher S. Yoo
Submissions from 2007
Risk Equity: A New Proposal, Matthew D. Adler
Well-being, Inequality and Time: The Time-slice Problem and its Policy Implications, Matthew D. Adler
Why De Minimis?, Matthew D. Adler
Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler and Eric Posner
Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy, Anita L. Allen
Dredging-up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory and Surveillance, Anita L. Allen
Face to Face with “It”: And Other Neglected Contexts of Health Privacy, Anita L. Allen
Super Size Me and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker, Regina Austin
Tradable Patent Rights: A New Approach to Innovation, Ian Ayres and Gideon Parchomovsky
Distributive Injustice and Private Law, Aditi Bagchi
Separating Contract and Promise, Aditi Bagchi
The Accidental Promise: Remaking the Law of Misrepresented Intent, Aditi Bagchi
Varieties of Employee Ownership: Some Unintended Consequences of Corporate Law and Labor Law, Aditi Bagchi
The Independent Significance of the Press Clause under Existing Law, C. Edwin Baker
Reconfiguring Property in Three Dimensions, Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky
Rita v. United States Leaves More Open Than it Answers, Stephanos Bibas
Odious Debts or Odious Regimes?, Patrick Bolton and David A. Skeel Jr.
The Complexity of Modern American Civil Litigation: Curse or Cure?, Stephen B. Burbank
Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice, William W. Burke-White
The Domestic Influence of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Creation of the State Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, William W. Burke-White
Investment Protection in Extraordinary Times: The Interpretation and Application of Non-Precluded Measures Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties, William W. Burke-White and Andreas von Staden
Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang
The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications, Howard F. Chang
The Economics of International Labor Migration and the Case for Global Distributive Justice in Liberal Political Theory, Howard F. Chang
The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields, Howard F. Chang and Hilary A. Sigman
Legitimacy and Corporate Governance, Cary Coglianese
The Rhetoric and Reality
of Regulatory Reform, Cary Coglianese
Weak Democracy, Strong Information: The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process, Cary Coglianese
Regulation and Regulatory Processes, Cary Coglianese and Robert Kagan
Prejudgment Interest in International Arbitration, Jeffrey M. Colon and Michael S. Knoll
Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan, Eric Feldman
The Short and Puzzling Life of the “Implicit Minority Discount” in Delaware Appraisal Law, Lawrence A. Hamermesh and Michael L. Wachter
Constructing the License to Operate: Internal Factors and their Influence on Corporate Environmental Decisions, Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville, Jennifer Nash, and Cary Coglianese
Fashioning Entitlements: A Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of the Judicial Role in Environmental Centralization in the U.S. and Europe, Jason S. Johnston and Michael G. Faure
The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition, Mitchell Kane and Edward B. Rock
The UBIT: Leveling an Uneven Playing Field or Tilting a Level One?, Michael S. Knoll
Rays of Sunlight in a Shadow “War”: FOIA, the Abuses of Anti-Terrorism, and the Strategy of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer
Rejecting “Uncontrolled Authority over the Body”: the Decencies of Civilized Conduct, the Past and the Future of Unenumerated Rights, Seth F. Kreimer