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The Pitfalls of International Integration: A Comment on the Bush Proposal and its Aftermath
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-01)
In January 2003, the Bush Administration proposed a new system for taxing corporate dividends, under which domestic shareholders in U.S. corporations would not be taxed on dividends they received, provided the corporation ...
Billowing White Goo
(2008)
In this paper, written for a symposium on Fair Use: Incredibly Expanding or Extraordinarily Shrinking?, I argue that the size of the fair use footprint has remained about the same over the past three decades, while the ...
Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade
(2009)
Global climate change is the most significant environmental issue facing our nation and the world. There no longer is any question that global warming is occurring. Nor is there any serious debate about whether human ...
Crimes on the Gulf
(2010)
The explosion that rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. After six weeks of failed efforts to stop the gushing oil and ...
Environmental Crimes Comes of Age: The Evolution of Criminal Enforcement in the Environmental Regulatory Scheme
(2009)
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 often is considered the first environmental criminal statute because it contains strict liability provisions that make it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse into navigable waters of the ...
Readers' Copyright
(2011-06)
This essay is part of a project intended to help reclaim copyright for readers, listeners, and viewers. A system of copyright protection makes little sense unless it is designed to encourage the use and enjoyment of the ...
Digital Copyright
(Prometheus Books, 2017-05-15)
I completed the original manuscript of Digital Copyright in 2000, two years after Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The 1976 Copyright Act was itself 24 years old, and beginning to show its age. The ...
Social science in court
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-06)
This article discusses the role of social science in legal proceedings with special attention to the ethical situation of the expert psychologist asked to testify about the reliability of an eyewitness identification. It ...
The Quest for a Sustainable Future and the Dawn of a New Journal at Michigan Law
(2012)
When I joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 2007, the first assignment I gave students in my Environmental Law and Policy class was John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid. It must have seemed ...