Although chronically ill individuals need protection against high medical expenses, they often have difficulty obtaining adequate insurance coverage due to medical underwriting practices used to classify and price risks and to define and limit coverage for individuals and groups. Using data from...

We examine job duration patterns for evidence of health insurance-related job lock among chronically ill workers or workers with a chronically ill family member. Using Cox proportional hazard models, we allow for more general insurance effects than in the existing literature to indicate the...

This Article explores the theory and process of explanatory synthesis in comparison to rule synthesis and case-to-case analogical reasoning as a method of demonstrative legal reasoning and analysis and legal rhetoric. The Article takes the form of a Socratic dialogue to discuss the analytical...

This Article introduces twenty-first century law and economics as a school of contemporary legal rhetoric to test and improve general legal discourse in areas beyond the economic analysis of law. My Article is the first to examine the prescriptive implications of the rhetoric of law and...

Legal writing hasn't changed much in the last four years, but the legal world and the legal writing and advocacy book market certainly has. Law schools are responding to massive changes in the legal employment market that call for deeper, more intensive, client-centered, and practice-oriented...

Legal writing hasn't changed much in the last four years, but the legal world and the legal writing and advocacy book market certainly have. Law schools are responding to massive changes in the legal employment market that call for deeper, more intensive, client-centered, and practice-oriented...

The T-R-E-A-T paradigm and the doctrine of explanatory synthesis are both organizational methodologies and substantive theories designed to improve the substance of legal writing. The TREAT paradigm doctrine holds that the presentation of legal discourse in a carefully constructed order not only...

Making the transition from law study to law practice requires focusing attention, synthesizing information, and rigorously applying skills that are new and non-intuitive. One pedagogical tool that combines the knowledge gained in law study with the skills needed for practice is the...

This Article explores the reality and mythology of NFTs in art law and in the artworld by unpacking six myths, misconceptions, and poorly understood truths about NFTs that prevent persons and particularly art law lawyers from understanding the role NFTs are playing and could play in the art...

The metaverse is the emerging cyberspace realm were people and entities (and various forms of algorithms and artificial intelligence) will interact, engage in games, sports, and entertainment, buy and sell “real world” and “in the metaverse” goods and services, and otherwise get into...