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Documents from 2017
The Biodiversity of Thermoduric Bacteria Isolated from Whey, Joseph Meade, Seamus Fanning, Kevinia McGill, and Ciara Walsh
Confidence in the Nonprofit Sector Through Sarbanes-Oxley-Style Reforms, Joseph Mead
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
del Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 - Chapters 1 and 2, Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, and Robert P. Merges
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
Contracting into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations, Robert P. Merges
Creative Professionals and Online Content: An Uneasy Truce, Robert P. Merges
Individual Creators in the Cultural Commons, Robert P. Merges
Introductory Note to Brief of Amicus Curiae in eBay v. MercExchange, Robert P. Merges
Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity, Robert P. Merges
One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law, 1900-2000, Robert P. Merges
Priority and Novelty Under the AIA, Robert P. Merges
The End of Friction - Property Rights and Contract in the Newton World of on-Line Commerce, Robert P. Merges
The Trouble with Trolls: Innovation, Rent-Seeking, and Patent Law Reform, Robert P. Merges
Uncertainty and the Standard of Patentability, Robert P. Merges
What Kind of Rights Are Intellectual Property Rights, Robert P. Merges
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume II: Copyrights, Trademarks, and State IP Protections, Robert P. Merges, Mark A. Lemley, and Peter Menell
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume II: Copyrights, Trademarks, and State IP Protections, Robert P. Merges, Mark A. Lemley, and Peter Menell
Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools, Robert P. Merges and Michael Mattioli
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume I: Perspectives, Trade Secrets and Patents, Robert P. Merges, Peter Menell, and Mark A. Lemley
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume I: Perspectives, Trade Secrets and Patents, Robert P. Merges, Peter Menell, and Mark A. Lemley
Intellectual Property Statutes: 2017, Robert P. Merges, Peter Menell, and Mark A. Lemley
Intellectual Property Statutes: 2017, Robert P. Merges, Peter Menell, and Mark A. Lemley
News Media Satellites and the First Amendment: A Case Study in the Treatment of New Technologies, Robert P. Merges and Glenn H. Reynolds
Happy Birthday, KRS!, Kurt X. Metzmeier
Estudos em Direito & Economia, Bruno Meyerhof Salama
In Re Petrobras Securities Litigation: validade e abrangência da cláusula arbitral, Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Spread Bancário e Enforcement Contratual: Hipótese de Causalidade Reversa e Evidência Empírica, Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Sub-rogação pelo Fundo Garantidor de Créditos (FGC) em decorrência do pagamento de créditos garantidos, Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Verbete: Análise Econômica do Direito, Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Líderes improváveis: A batalha dos países em desenvolvimento pelo acesso a medicamentos patenteados, Bruno Meyerhof Salama and Daniel Benoliel
Dever de Diligência do Conselheiro de Administração: Lições da Jurisprudência Administrativa nas Companhias Abertas, Bruno Meyerhof Salama and Vicente Braga
Food Law in Canada, Ikechi Mgbeoji
Anti-Corruption Crisis Management Master Class, Bryane Michael
Necessary Distractions: How Technology has Changed the Way our Students Learn, Karin Mika
The Evolving Classroom: How Technology Has Changed Our Students and Ourselves, Karin Mika
Persuasive Technologies: From Loss of Privacy to Loss of Autonomy, Eliza Mik
Faculty Colloquia, Fall 2010 Series, John Mikhail; Nelson Tebbe; Anita S, Krishnakumar; Lawrence B. Solum; Stephen I. Vladeck; Fred Smith; Albert Yoon; Ted Blumoff; Charlene Luke; Stephen B. Burbank; Jayne Barnard; Chaim Saiman; Amy Gajda; and Radhika Rao
Difficulties with the Interordinal Laws of Cultural Property as Applied in the United States, and Proposed Solutions, Jeffrey John Miles
Solving the problem of capital loss distribution upon dissolution of a service partnership, Jeffrey John Miles
Chinese Corporate Capitalism in Comparative Context, Curtis J. Milhaupt
Governance Challenges of Listed State-Owned Enterprises Around the World, Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mariana Pargendler
Lawyer Advocacy: Required Skills Training in the Second Year, Paul S. Milich
Balancing Security and Liberty in Germany, Russell A. Miller
A Pantomime of Privacy: Terrorism and Investigative Powers in German Constitutional Law, Russell A. Miller
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Einspruch Magazin, Monthly Column (Nov. 2017 to present), Russell A. Miller
Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal, Russell A. Miller and Peer C. Zumbansen
Innovative Assessment: How to Assess When Grades Aren’t Given, Stephanie C. Miller
A New Look at Neo-Liberal Economic Policies and the Criminalization of Undocumented Migration, Teresa A. Miller
Bright Lines, Black Bodies: The Florence Strip Search Case and its Dire Repercussions, Teresa A. Miller
By Any Means Necessary: Collateral Civil Penalties of Non-U.S. Citizens and the War on Terror, Teresa A. Miller
Citizenship and Severity: Recent Immigration Reforms and the New Penology, Teresa A. Miller
Encountering Attica: Documentary Filmmaking as Pedagogical Tool, Teresa A. Miller
Encountering Attica, Teresa A. Miller