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Documents from 2017
The Next OSHA: Progressive Reforms to Empower Workers, Martha T. McCluskey, Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro, Rena Steubzor, and Matthew Shudtz
Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches, Martha T. McCluskey, Frank A. Pasquale III, and Jennifer Taub
Religious Privilege to Discriminate as Religious Freedom: From Charitable Choice to Faith Based Initiatives to RFRA and FADA, Marcia L. McCormick
Consumer Financial Protection in a Time of Uncertainty, Patricia McCoy
How Environmental Protection Reaches the Public Eyes and Ears: the Environmental Journalism of Environmental Law and Politics, Patricia McCoy
Knightian Uncertainty, Sytemic Risk Regulation and the Limits of Judicial Review, Patricia McCoy
Legal Scholarship in Times of Public Crisis, Patricia McCoy
Legislation: What is the Trump Administration's Legislative Agenda on Finance?, Patricia McCoy
Letter to Congressional Banking Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members Opposing the CHOICE Act, Patricia McCoy
Social Tradeoffs in Managing Longevity Risk, Patricia McCoy
The Tenth Anniversary of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: The State of Financial Reform and Consumer Financial Protection, Patricia McCoy
Foreword, Patricia A. McCoy
Has the Mortgage Pendulum Swung Too Far? Reviving Access to Mortgage Credit, Patricia A. McCoy
A New Coalescence in the Housing Finance Reform Debate?, Patricia A. McCoy and Susan Wachter
Representations and Warranties: Why They Did Not Stop the Crisis, Patricia A. McCoy and Susan Wachter
Why Cyclicality Matters To Access to Mortgage Credit, Patricia A. McCoy and Susan M. Wachter
Accessing Jury Selection Data in Pre-Digital Era, Liz McCurry Johnson
Quoted in "California Again Steps Up to Trump, This Time to Stop the Border Wall", Patrick McGreevy and Jazmine Uloa
Armoring Against Coastal Climate Adaptation in the US: A Massachusetts Perspective, Chad J. McGuire
Risky Business: Publicly Insuring Against Rising Tides, Chad J. McGuire
Uncommunicating Climate Change in the Trump Era: Influencing Public Policy by Attempting to Control the Message, Chad J. McGuire
Competing Narratives of Climate Change, Chad J. McGuire and Devon Lynch
The Need for Environmental Justice Never Ends Because Externalities Persist, Chad J. McGuire and Devon Lynch
U.S. Supreme Court Cites Notre Dame Law Professor’s Work, Mark McKenna
USING IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS AND A SINGLE-SUBJECT DESIGN TO IDENTIFY “THE ONE”: A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR SERVICES AND RETAIL MARKETING RESEARCH, Oscar T. McKnight, Ronald Paugh, Elena Kirkbride, and Emily Sycks
A Law Professor’s Measured Take On Neil Gorsuch And Why Originalism Is Full Of Sh*t, Mary Brigid McManamon
Smile, Steve Bannon’s Watching!, Mary Brigid McManamon
Fighting Fascism: Lessons From Nazi Germany About the Rule of Law, Judith A. McMorrow
Moving from a Brandeis Brief to a Brandeis Law Firm: Challenges and Opportunities for Holistic Legal Services in the United States, Judith A. McMorrow
Moving from a Brandeis Brief to a Brandeis Law Firm: Challenges and Opportunities for Holistic Legal Services in the United States, Judith A. McMorrow
The Rule of Law in the Age of Trump, Judith A. McMorrow
UK Alternative Business Structures for Legal Practice: Emerging Models and Lessons for the US, Judith A. McMorrow
Gatekeepers in the Age of New Governance, Judith A. McMorrow and Stephen Geanacopoulos
Lawyer Discipline in an Authoritarian Regime: Empirical Insights from Zhejiang Province, China, Judith A. McMorrow, Benjamin Van Rooij, and Sida Liu
Aboriginal Rights in Transition: Reassessing Aboriginal Title and Governance, Kent McNeil
Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Governance: Identifying the Holders of Rights and Authority, Kent McNeil
Aboriginal Title and the Provinces after Tsilhqot’in Nation, Kent McNeil
Aboriginal Title in Canada: Site-Specific or Territorial?, Kent McNeil
Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples, Kent McNeil
Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples, Kent McNeil
Indigenous Law and Aboriginal Title, Kent McNeil
The Biodiversity of Thermoduric Bacteria Isolated from Whey, Joseph Meade, Seamus Fanning, Kevinia McGill, and Ciara Walsh
Book Review: Whose Voice? The Role of Charities in the Rise of Hyper-Policing of Their Clients, Joseph Mead
Confidence in the Nonprofit Sector Through Sarbanes-Oxley-Style Reforms, Joseph Mead
Equal Standing with States: Tribal Sovereignty and Standing after Massachusetts v. EPA, Joseph Mead and Nicholas Fromherz
Who is a Nuisance? Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinances in Ohio, Joseph Mead, Megan Hatch, J. Rosie Tighe, Marissa Pappas, Kristi Andrasik, and Elizabeth Bonham
When Calling 911 Makes You a ‘Nuisance’ and Gets You Evicted, Joseph Mead and Marissa Pappas
How Criminal Activity Nuisance Laws Can Hurt Victims of Domestic Violence, Joseph Mead, Marissa Pappas, Megan Hatch, and J. Rosie Tighe
Quasi-Governmental Organizations at the Local Level: Publicly-Appointed Directors Leading Nonprofit Organizations., Joseph Mead and Katherine Warren
Book Review: Advancing the Search for How Administrators Should Act: A Review of the Political Ethics of Public Service, Ryan Meisner, Joseph Mead, and Lawrence F. Keller
Civil Penalties, Social Consequences, Christopher Mele and Teresa A. Miller
Collateral Civil Penalties as Techniques of Social Policy, Christopher Mele and Teresa A. Miller
An Eye Toward Effective Enforcement: A Technical-Comparative Approach to the Drafting Negotiations, Tara J. Melish
A Pyrrhic Victory for Peru's Pensioners: Pensions, Property and the Perversion of Progressivity, Tara J. Melish
From Paradox to Subsidiarity: The United States and Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Tara J. Melish
Human Rights to Food in Guatemala: From Rhetoric to Reality, Tara J. Melish
Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Manual on Presenting Claims, Tara J. Melish
Rethinking the "Less as More" Thesis: Supranational Litigation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Americas, Tara J. Melish
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Defending Social Rights Through Case-Based Petitions, Tara J. Melish
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Beyond Progressivity, Tara J. Melish
Truth Commission Impact: A Participation-Based Implementation Agenda, Tara J. Melish
Protect, Respect, Remedy and Participate: ‘New Governance’ Lessons for the Ruggie Framework, Tara J. Melish and Errol Meidinger
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, Gary B. Melton, John Petrila, Norman Poythress, and Christopher Slobogin
Citizenship Outside the Academy, Allen P. Mendenhall
Review of Brent J. Aucoin's Thomas Goode Jones: Race, Politics & Justice in the New South (University of Alabama Press, 2017), Allen P. Mendenhall
The Jeffersonian Jurist? A Reconsideration of Justice Louis Brandeis and the Libertarian Legal Tradition in the United States, Allen P. Mendenhall
La desheredación de los ascendentes en el sistema italiano. Una breve aproximación desde el derecho peruano, Angela Mendola and Marco Andrei Torres Maldonado
Sarah Tran's Inspiring Optimism, Peter Menell
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume II: Copyrights, Trademarks, and State IP Protections, Peter Menell, Robert P. Merges, and Mark A. Lemley
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume I: Perspectives, Trade Secrets and Patents, Peter Menell, Robert P. Merges, and Mark A. Lemley
Intellectual Property Statutes: 2017, Peter Menell, Robert P. Merges, and Mark A. Lemley
Adapting Copyright for the Mashup Generation, Peter S. Menell
Sarah Tran's Inspiring Optimism, Peter S. Menell
Adapting Copyright for the Mashup Generation, Peter S. Menell
Bankruptcy Treatment of Intellectual Property Assets: An Economic Analysis, Peter S. Menell
Beyond the Throwaway Society: An Incentive Approach to Regulating Municipal Solid Waste, Peter S. Menell
Economic Implications of State Sovereign Immunity from Infringement of Federal Intellectual Property Rights, Peter S. Menell
Foreword, Peter S. Menell
Foreword, Peter S. Menell
Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Peter S. Menell
Liability of Parent Corporations for Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Damages, Peter S. Menell
Misconstruing Whistleblower Immunity Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, Peter S. Menell
Regulating Spyware: The Limitations of State Laboratories and the Case for Federal Preemption of State Unfair Competition Laws, Peter S. Menell
Tailoring a Public Policy Exception to Trade Secret Protection, Peter S. Menell
The Property Rights Movement's Embrace of Intellectual Property: True Love or Doomed Relationship, Peter S. Menell
Using Fee Shifting to Promote Fair Use and Fair Licensing, Peter S. Menell and Ben Depoorter
Unwinding Sony, Peter S. Menell and David Nimmer
Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework, Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, and Steven C. Carlson
Star Athletica’s Fissure in the Intellectual Property Functionality Landscape, Peter S. Menell and Daniel Yablon
The Future of Natural Resources Law, Andy Mergen, Holly Doremus, Charles Wilkinson, and Dave Owen
Apple v. Franklin: An Essay on Technology and Judicial Competence, Robert P. Merges
A Few Kind Words for Absolute Infringement Liability in Patent Law, Robert P. Merges
A New Dynamism in the Public Domain, Robert P. Merges
As Many as Six Impossible Patent before Breakfast: Property Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform, Robert P. Merges
A Transactional View of Property Rights, Robert P. Merges
A Transactional View of Property Rights, Robert P. Merges
Commercial Success and Patent Standards: Economic Perspectives on Innovation, Robert P. Merges