This Article examines procedural protections that safeguard substantive rights in administrative adjudications. Federal administrative agencies essentially conduct trials without a jury or an Article III judge, and their decisions are afforded deferential judicial review. Agencies also directly...

This Article offers a comprehensive examination of the Skidmore standard for judicial review of agency legal interpretations as applied by the courts in the period since the Supreme Court revitalized Skidmore in United States v. Mead Corp. First, the Article documents an empirical study of five...

In vivo conversion is a process, often metabolic in nature, wherein one substance, usually a chemical compound, is altered significantly by physiological pathways in the body into one or more different substances. For example, when a patient ingests a therapeutic drug, that drug is often...

This paper uses a natural experiment to measure market response to the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Because SOX applies to all US public companies, US-based studies have difficulty separating the effects of contemporaneous events. However, controlled analysis is available: SOX...

The expansion of the derivatives and stock loan markets has permitted investors a great deal of flexibility in structuring their voting rights in and economic ownership of corporations. Some investors have used this flexibility to engage in a practice I label quot;negative voting,quot; which...

In their new book, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling charge that the regulatory use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) quot;gives us opaque and technical reasons to do the obviously wrong thing.quot; While they build the most...

The authors have conducted a longitudinal study exploring the relationships between values and ethical behaviour for early-career legal practitioners. The study comprised a representative Australian cohort of final-year law students and tracked them through their first two years of employment or...

In September 2008, the Treasury created a temporary insurance program for money market funds (quot;MMFsquot;), which had never previously been covered by government insurance. This essay argues that this program should be made permanent. To the extent that deposit insurance is intended to...

The paper analyzes issues of emergence and development of institute of legal support of activity of the situational centers in the Russian Federation

In the 1970s motion picture studios increased their use of blind bidding and non-refundable guarantees in an attempt to reduce the risks associated with producing a small number of large budget films. However, theater owners claimed that blind bidding and guarantees shifted risk to them and...