Submissions from 2020
Indenture Trustee Duties: The Pre-Default Puzzle, Steven L. Schwarcz
Soft Law as Governing Law, Steven L. Schwarcz
TePoel Lecture: Bond Trustees and the Rising Challenge of Activist Investors, Steven L. Schwarcz
Anticipating Venezuela’s Debt Crisis: Hidden Holdouts and the Problem of Pricing Collective Action Clauses, Robert E. Scott, Stephen J. Choi, and Mitu Gulati
Revising Boilerplate: A Comparison of Private and Public Company Transactions, Robert E. Scott, Stephen J. Choi, and Mitu Gulati
The Limited Lifespan of the Bankruptcy Estate: Managing Consumer and Small Business Reorganizations, Jonathan M. Seymour
Giving Credits Where Credits Are (Arguably) Due: A Half Century's Evolution in the Design of Personal Tax Expenditures, Lawrence Zelenak
The Gaps Model and Faculty Services: Quality Analysis Through a “New” Lens, Alex Zhang and Sherry Xin Chen
Submissions from 2019
Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations, Karen J. Alter, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, and Laurence R. Helfer
Is There a First-Drafter Advantage in M&A?, Adam B. Badawi and Elisabeth de Fontenay
Grounding Originalism, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Originalism and the Law of the Past, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Beyond the Annals of Murder: The Life and Works of Thomas M. McDade, Jennifer L. Behrens
“Unknown Symbols”: Online Legal Research in the Age of Emoji, Jennifer L. Behrens
Introduction to the Symposium on Transnational Futures of International Labor Law, Adelle Blackett and Laurence R. Helfer
Bans, Joseph Blocher
Free Speech and Justified True Belief, Joseph Blocher
Response: Rights as Trumps of What?, Joseph Blocher
Stevens, J., Dissenting: The Legacy of Heller, Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
Doctrinal Dynamism, Borrowing, and the Relationship Between Rules and Rights, Joseph Blocher and Luke Morgan
Analyzing the Trump Administration's International Trade Strategy, Rachel Brewster
WTO Dispute Settlement: Can We Go Back Again?, Rachel Brewster
Fixing the Design Patent Bar: New Opportunities for Federal Lawyers, Christopher Buccafusco and Jeanne C. Curtis
The Design Patent Bar: An Occupational Licensing Failure, Christopher Buccafusco and Jeanne C. Curtis
Exemplary Legal Writing 2018: Five Recommendations, Femi Cadmus and Casandra Laskowski
Slouching Toward Universality: A Brief History of Race, Voting, and Political Participation, Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer
The Well-Intentioned Purpose but Weak Epistemological Foundation of Originalism, George C. Christie
Activist Directors and Agency Costs: What Happens When an Activist Director Goes on the Board?, John C. Coffee Jr., Robert J. Jackson Jr., Joshua R. Mitts, and Robert E. Bishop
Semenya and ASA v IAAF: Affirming the Lawfulness of a Sex-Based Eligibility Rule for the Women’s Category in Elite Sport, Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Introduction: Professor Randall Thomas’s Depolarizing and Neutral Approach to Shareholder Rights, James D. Cox and Frank Partnoy
Revolving Elites: The Unexplored Risk of Capturing the SEC, James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas
Private Equity's Governance Advantage: A Requiem, Elisabeth de Fontenay
The State of the Death Penalty, Ankur Desai and Brandon L. Garrett
Brief of Public Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Chris Dove and Ernest A. Young
The Enduring Distinction Between Business Entities and Security Interests, Ofer Eldar and Andrew Verstein
Defending Refugees: A Case for Protective Procedural Safeguards in the Persecutor Bar Analysis, Charles Shane Ellison
Immigration Detainers, Local Discretion, and State Law's Historical Constraints, Kate Evans
The Cost of Changing Our Minds, Nita A. Farahany
Engineered Credit Default Swaps: Innovative or Manipulative?, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
The Conflicted Advice Problem: A Response to Conflicts & Capital Allocation, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office, Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman
Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Consistency-Enhancing Function, Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman
Federal Criminal Risk Assessment, Brandon L. Garrett
Self-Policing: Dissemination and Adoption of Police Eyewitness Policies in Virginia, Brandon L. Garrett
Unconstitutionally Illegitimate Discrimination, Brandon L. Garrett
Wealth, Equal Protection, and Due Process, Brandon L. Garrett
Do Heads Roll?: An Empirical Analysis of CEO Turnover and Pay When the Corporation is Federally Prosecuted, Brandon L. Garrett, Nan Li, and Shivaram Rajgopal
Judging Risk: The Use of Risk Assessment in Sentencing, Brandon L. Garrett and John Monahan
Totemic Functionalism in Foreign Affairs Law, Elad D. Gil
A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility, Sara Sternberg Greene
The End of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, Ben Grunwald and Jeffrey Fagan
Sports in the Courts: The NCAA and the Future of Intercollegiate Revenue Sports, Paul H. Haagen
The ILO at 100: Institutional Innovation in an Era of Populism, Laurence R. Helfer
Has Shoe Run Its Course?, David W. Ichel
Reclaiming the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors, David F. Levi, Dana Remus, and Abigail Frisch
Visiting Judges, Marin K. Levy
Who Tells Your Story: The Legality of and Shift in Racial Preferences Within Casting Practices, Nicole Ligon
Combating Silence in the Profession, Veronica Root Martinez
The Outsized Influence of the FCPA?, Veronica Root Martinez
The Law and Politics of Socially Inclusive Trade, Timothy Meyer
Trade and the Separation of Powers, Timothy Meyer and Ganesh Sitaraman
Private International Law as an Ethic of Responsivity, Ralf Michaels
Constitutional Conflict and Sensitive Places, Darrell A. H. Miller
Owning Heller, Darrell A. H. Miller
Open Science Precision Medicine in Canada: Points to Consider, Palmira Granados Moreno, Sarah E. Ali-Khan, Benjamin Capps, Timothy Caulfield, Damien Chalaud, Aled Edwards, E. Richard Gold, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Adrian Thorogood, Daniel Auld, Gabrielle Bertier, Felix Breden, Roxanne Caron, Priscilla M.D.G. César, Robert Cook-Deegan, Megan Doerr, Ros Duncan, Amalia M. Issa, Jerome Reichman, Jacques Simard, Derek So, Sandeep Vanamala, and Yann Joly
Beyond the Numbers: Substantive Gender Diversity in Boardrooms, Yaron Nili
Successor CEOs, Yaron Nili
Applying Unoccupied Aircraft Systems to Study Human Behavior in Marine Science and Conservation Programs, Michelle B. Nowlin, Stephen E. Roady, Everette Newton, and David W. Johnston
Legislation and Comment: The Making of the § 199A Regulations, Shu-Yi Oei and Leigh Osofsky
Constituencies and Control in Statutory Drafting: Interviews with Government Tax Counsels, Shu-Yi Oei and Leigh Z. Osofsky
When Data Comes Home: Next Steps in International Taxation’s Information Revolution, Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Presidential Responses to Protest: Lessons Jefferson Davis Never Learned, Ashlee Paxton-Turner
The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition, H. Jefferson Powell
Expropriation in the Name of Rights: Transferable Development Rights (TDRs), the Bundle of Sticks and Chinese Politics, Shitong Qiao
Machine Learning at the Patent Office: Lessons for Patents and Administrative Law, Arti K. Rai
The Shadows of Life: Medicaid's Failure of Health Care's Moral Test, Barak D. Richman, Kushal T. Kadakia, and Shivani A. Shah
The Compliance Process, Veronica Root
Board Diversity by Term Limits?, Darren Rosenblum and Yaron Nili
Detention as Deterrence, Emily Ryo
Finding Law, Stephen E. Sachs
Supreme Court as Superweapon: A Response to Epps & Sitaraman, Stephen E. Sachs
The NCAA and the IRS: Life at the Intersection of College Sports and the Federal Income Tax, Richard L. Schmalbeck and Lawrence A. Zelenak
Central Clearing of Financial Contracts: Theory and Regulatory Implications, Steven L. Schwarcz
Empowering the Poor: Turning De Facto Rights into Collateralized Credit, Steven L. Schwarcz
Proactive Resolution of Sovereign and Subnational Debt, Steven L. Schwarcz
Systematic Regulation of Systemic Risk, Steven L. Schwarcz
Dartmouth College v. Woodward and the Structure of Civil Society, Ernest A. Young
Dying Constitutionalism and the Fourteenth Amendment, Ernest A. Young
State Standing and Cooperative Federalism, Ernest A. Young
Sustainable and Open Access to Valuable Legal Research Information: A New Framework, Alex Zhang and James Hart
Submissions from 2018
No More Blood, Kerry Abrams
The Rights of Marriage: Obergefell, Din, and the Future of Constitutional Family Law, Kerry Abrams
Providing Access to Confidential Research Data Through Synthesis and Verification: An Application to Data on Employees of the U.S. Federal Government, Andrés F. Barrientos, Alexander Bolton, Tom Balmat, Jerome P. Reiter, John M. de Figueiredo, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Yan Chen, Charley Kneifel, and Mark DeLong
Brief of Professors William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope for International Human Rights Litigation in the U.S. Courts?, Sara Sun Beale
Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession, Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati
The Second Amendment as Positive Law, Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller
Exiting Congressional-Executive Agreements, Curtis A. Bradley
U.S. War Powers and the Potential Benefits of Comparativism, Curtis A. Bradley
Presidential Control Over International Law, Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith