In this contribution to the University of Louisville Law Review's Annual Carl A. Warns Labor and Employment Institute issue, I examine the Supreme Court's labor and employment-related decisions from the October Term 2012 (OT 2012). I argue that the Court's decisions assisted employers as...

In an unexpected portion of its unanimous opinion in Frew v. Hawkins, 540 U.S. 431 (2004), the Supreme Court broke new ground on an important question involving consent decrees. The case began when Texas state officials invoked the Eleventh Amendment in their resistance to a federal Medicaid...

We empirically examine the value relevance of court rulings on environmental litigation for polluting firms. In a landmark case, the US Supreme Court cited the “major questions” doctrine to reject the jurisdiction power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the West Virginia V. EPA...

This symposium article engages with Dan Burk and Mark Lemley's recent book, "The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It," in which they suggest that courts should and do tailor patent law to particular technologies or industries, with the aim of providing appropriate incentives to...

Numerous studies examine the importance of legal systems, yet there is little scholarship on how nations can improve their legal systems. Nations might try to invest more resources, including increasing overall budgets, increasing judicial salaries, or expanding the number of judges and/or...

This Article uncovers the history of a long-forgotten English court system, the “fire courts,” which Parliament established to resolve dispute between landlords and tenants in urban areas destroyed in catastrophic fires. One of the fire courts' remarkable features was the delegation of...

In US derivative cases, plaintiffs' lawyer fees and monetary awards have a distorting effect on shareholder value. We evaluate the benefits of corporate litigation without these externalities using a dataset for the Netherlands between 2002 and 2013. We find significant abnormal returns within a...

This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply