Credibility is a determinative factor in many of the immigration cases adjudicated every year (and, each year, the federal immigration agency adjudicates hundreds of thousands of cases). Given the numbers of affected immigrants and the stakes involved, it is essential that the legislature,...

Based on the experiences of two high profile voluntary data collection programs for engineered nanomaterials, this article considers the merit of an international online registry for scientific data on engineered nanomaterials and environmental, health and safety (EHS) data. Drawing on the...

When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizes the marketing of a new drug or medical device, the license reflects the FDA’s review of data and information relating to uses specified by the manufacturer and set forth in agency-approved labeling. Authorized products are often used...

President Obama along with Congress has made it clear that there is a national need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the board. While state and federal smart growth legislative initiatives are being developed to accomplish the targets set by our policy makers, few if any initiatives...

Regulation is often casually conceived of as functioning like a binary on/off switch: as if an area, issue, or industry is either regulated or not. While this binary model of regulation can be useful, it also decontextualizes regulatory decisions from their position in time, and thus obscures...

Our study compiled the largest research sample on the gender gap in compensation at the 200 largest law firms by combining two large databases to examine why women partners are compensated less: because they are less productive than men partners or because they are women. The AmLaw 100 and 200...

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global health issues (e.g., maternal and child health,...

The relationship between law and economic development remains enigmatic. There is no doubt that, broadly speaking, legal mechanisms for social control (or “institutions,” to use North’s words) play a major role. Nevertheless, the impact of legal organization on economic development has not...

Since United States v. Lopez first brought the distinction between economic and non-economic activity to the forefront of the Supreme Court's Commerce Clause analysis, courts and commentators alike have been grappling with the issue of what constitutes an economic activity for federal regulatory...

Corporate governance in Pakistan has significantly improved over the past few years although much remains to be done. In 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan promulgated Pakistan's first Code of Corporate Governance. This Code, along with the Companies Ordinance of 1984,...