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Empirical Legal Studies
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ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 4
Students, Police, and the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Since the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers and school officials continue to deliberate over new laws and policies…
Jason P. Nance -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Event Studies in Securities Litigation: Low Power, Confounding Effects, and Bias
An event study is a statistical method for determining whether some event—such as the announcement of earnings or the announcement of a proposed merger—is…
Alon Brav & J. B. Heaton -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Mandatory Disclosure and Individual Investors: Evidence From the Jobs Act
One prominent justification for the mandatory disclosure rules that define modern securities law is that these rules encourage individual investors to participate in stock…
Yu-Ting Forester Wong, Colleen Honigsberg & Robert J. Jackson Jr. -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 6
Appraisal Arbitrage and the Future of Public Company M&A
In this Article, we demonstrate that the stockholder’s appraisal remedy—long-dismissed in corporate law scholarship as useless or worse—is in the middle of a renaissance…
Charles R. Korsmo & Minor Myers -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 5
When Bank Examiners Get It Wrong: Financial Institution Appeals of Material Supervisory Determinations
Banks and credit unions sometimes complain that the examination process regulators use to police banking practices is oppressive. These financial institutions complain that regulators…
Julie Andersen Hill -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 3
Say on Pay Around the World
Shareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate boards irrespective of their performance. Investors have traditionally been powerless to prevent these…
Randall S. Thomas & Christoph Van der Elst -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 6
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace
In one of its most-watched recent cases, the United States Supreme Court struck down a class action alleging that Wal-Mart stores discriminated against female…
Pauline Kim & Margo Schlanger -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 5
Negative Activism
Shareholder activism has become one of the most important and widely studied topics in law and finance. To date, popular and academic accounts have…
Barbara A. Bliss, Peter Molk & Frank Partnoy -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 4
How Do Judges Decide School Finance Cases?
There is an old riddle that asks, what do constitutional school funding lawsuits and birds have in common? The answer: every state has its…
Ethan Hutt, Daniel Klasik & Aaron Tang -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 1
Sovereignty Mismatch and the New Administrative Law
In the United States, making international policymaking work with domestic administrative law poses one of the thorniest of modern legal problems—the problem of sovereignty…
David Zaring -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 3
Privacy Law’s False Promise
Privacy laws have never seemed stronger. New international, national, state, and local laws have been passed with the promise of greater protection for consumers.…
Ari Ezra Waldman -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3
Democratizing Rule Development
Agencies make many of their most important decisions in rulemaking well before the publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), when they set…
Michael Sant’Ambrogio & Glen Staszewski