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Forum: Off-Contract Harms: The Real Effect of Liberal Rescission Rights on Contract Price

Figure 1 below, the curve D represents the demand for the good (i.e., the value placed on it by consumers), and the curve D’ represents the demand for

Bounded Institutions

curve (“X students receive As”), while an example of an unbounded institution is granting a particular grade to each student who meets a particular

Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker

other pre-charge features of the case. The estimated discontinuities represent the break in the curve at Booker—that is, the difference between the

How To Eat an Elephant: Corporate Group Structure of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Orderly Liquidation Authority, and Single Point of Entry Resolution

assets with short-term loans (including repurchase agreements, or “repos”), with maturities as short as one day. In normal times, Lehman was able to

Forum: Corpus Linguistics & Original Public Meaning: A New Tool To Make Originalism More Empirical

one collocate, noting when it appeared “in a couplet with ‘trade.’” His survey of nearly 1600 instances of “commerce” revealed “the normal

Forum: Depolarizing the COVID Vaccine Passport

; known as the “Green Pass,” its proponents claim that it facilitated a quicker and safer return to normal. Other countries have followed Israel’s

Forum: Models, Race, and the Law

curve. If we want to test four coins for fairness, suppose we flip each one 1,000 times. Coin 1 gives 504 heads; Coin 2 gives 508 heads; Coin 3 gives

Stop Ignoring Pork and Potholes: Election Law and Constituent Service

studying how many earmark-funded projects would have received funding under the normal, merit-based system. But “after finding that most of them would

Forum: Transcending the Youngstown Triptych: A Multidimensional Reappraisal of Separation of Powers Doctrine

duty, claiming that the President is not exercising the normal case-by-case prosecutorial discretion approved by the Court in Heckler v. Chaneyin 1985

Dangerous Defendants

must decide where, along the curve of rearrest probability, to draw the lines between risk classes. These are called “cut points.” See, e.g., Eaglin