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This page contains information about papers in the Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies, sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. These are the most recent Working Papers in this series, including abstracts and links to full-text documents. Complete versions of these papers are available through the Social Science Research Network. Working papers are posted in Adobe's PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat to view and print these documents. A searchable index of papers will also be forthcoming on this site.

For additional information on publications in this series, please contact Jonathan H. Adler jha5@case.edu or Erik M. Jensen emj@case.edu.

09-21 June 2009
Would a Tax on AIG Bonus Recipients Really Be a Tax? 
Erik M. Jensen
09-20 June 2009
Does Copyright Law Promote Creativity? An Empirical Analysis of Copyright’s Bounty 
Raymond Shih Ray Ku, Jiayang Sun, and Yiying Fan
09-19 May 2009
How the Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1870-1930 
Robert N. Strassfeld
09-18 May 2009
Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: Ceremonial Deism and Change in Meaning over Time 
B. Jessie Hill
09-17 May 2009
Legal Forms and the Common Law of Patents 
Craig Allen Nard
09-13 April 2009
Trysts or Terrorists? Financial Institutions and the Search for Bad Guys 
Richard K. Gordon
09-12 April 2009
Book Review, True Tales for Trying Times: Legal Fables for Today (Bob Rains) 
Erik M. Jensen
09-11 April 2009
Judgment, Identity, and Independence 
Cassandra Burke Robertson
09-10 April 2009
Laundering the Proceeds of Public Sector Corruption 
Richard K. Gordon
09-9 April 2009
Stakeholder Governance: A Bad Idea Getting Worse 
George W. Dent, Jr.
09-8 March 2009
"We, the Paparazzi”: Developing a Privacy Paradigm for Digital Video 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
09-7 March 2009
Under the Robes: A Judicial Right to Bare Arms (and Legs and . . .)? 
Erik M. Jensen
09-6 March 2009
Business, The Environment, and The Roberts Court: A Preliminary Assessment 
Jonathan H. Adler
09-5 February 2009
Secondary Liability and the Fragmentation of Digital Copyright Law 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
09-4 February 2009
Warming Up to Water Markets 
Jonathan H. Adler
09-03 February 2009
From Domain Names to Video Games: The Rise of the Internet in Presidential Politics 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
09-2 January 2009
Land Use and Climate Change: Is it Time for a National Land Use Policy? 
Catherine J. LaCroix
09-1 January 2009
To © or Not to ©? Copyright and Innovation in the 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
08-32 November 2008
Getting the Roberts Court Right: A Response to Chemerinsky 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-31 October 2008
A More Modest Court: The Ohio Supreme Court's Newfound Judicial Restraint 
Jonathan H. Adler and Christina M. Adler
08-30 October 2008
United States Senate Committee on Finance Hearing on Indian Governments and the Tax Code: Maximizing Tax Incentives for Economic Development 
Erik M. Jensen
08-29 October 2008
The Intellectual History of "The Shortest Article in Law Review History" 
Erik M. Jensen
08-28 September 2008
Parents Involved and the Meaning of Brown: An Old Debate Renewed 
Jonathan L. Entin
08-27 September 2008
Preparing for Disaster: Protecting the most vulnerable in Emergencies 
Sharona Hoffman
08-26 September 2008
Regulating Tax Competition in Offshore Financial Centers 
Craig M. Boise
08-25 September 2008
Business Lawyers as Enterprise Architects 
George W. Dent, Jr.
08-24 September 2008
Institutional Choice & Interest Groups in the Development of American Patent Law: 1790-1870 
Andrew P. Morriss and Craig Allen Nard
08-23 August 2008
Book Review: Tax-Free Like-Kind Exchanges, by Bradley T. Borden 
Erik Jensen
08-22 August 2008
Population Health and Tax-Exempt Hospitals: Putting the Community Back into the "Community Benefit" Standard 
Jessica Berg
08-21 August 2008
No Way Out? The Question of Unilateral Withdrawals of Referrals to the ICC and other Human Rights Courts 
Michael P. Scharf and Patrick Dowd
08-20 August 2008
The Rest Is Silence: Chevron Deference, Agency Jurisdiction, And Statutory Silences 
Nathan Alexander Sales and Jonathan H. Adler
08-19 August 2008
Book Review: Making America Work, by Jonathan Barry Forman 
Erik M. Jensen
08-18 August 2008
Indian Gaming on Newly Acquired Lands 
Erik M. Jensen
08-17 August 2008
The US Legislative and Regulatory Approach to Tax Avoidance, in John Avery Jones et al., eds., Comparative Perspectives on Revenue Law: Essays in Honour of John Tiley, at 99 (Cambridge University Press, 2008, www.cambridge.org ). ISBN-13:978-0-521-88777-9. 
Erik M. Jensen
08-16 August 2008
Taking Property Rights Seriously: The Case Of Climate Change 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-15 August 2008
Reflections On Free Exercise: Revisiting Rourke V. Department Of Correctional Services 
Gary J. Simson
08-14 August 2008
To Teach or Not to Teach 
Gary J. Simson
08-13 August 2008
Finding A Cure: The Case For Regulation And Oversight Of Electronic Health Record Systems 
Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski
08-12 April 2008
Common Law Environmental Protection 
Jonathan H. Adler & Andrew P. Morriss
08-11 April 2008
Anti-Conservation Incentives 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-10 March 2008
Reforming Our Wasteful Hazardous Waste Policy 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-08 February 2008
Water Marketing as an Adaptive Response to the Threat of Climate Change 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-07 February 2008
Hothouse Flowers: The Vices and Virtues of Climate Federalism 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-06 February 2008
Bite Mark Analysis 
Paul C. Giannelli
08-05 February 2008
God, Gaia, the Taxpayer, and the Lorax: Standing, Justiciability, and Separation of Powers after Massachusetts and Hein 
Jonathan H. Adler
08-04 February 2008
Prosecutors, Ethics, and Expert Witnesses 
Paul C. Giannelli & Kevin C. McMunigal
08-03 January 2008
Uncertainty, Reliance, Preliminary Negotiations and the Hold Up Problem 
Juliet P. Kostritsky
08-02 February 2008
Wrongful Convictions and Forensic Science: The Need to Regulate Crime Labs 
Paul C. Giannelli
08-01 January 2008
The Original Plain Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms 
Peter D. Junger
07-30 December 2007
Law School Attire: A Call for a Uniform Uniform Code 
Erik M. Jensen
07-29 December 2007
Responders’ Responsibility: Liability And Immunity In Public Health Emergencies 
Sharona Hoffman
07-28 December 2007
The Constitutional Right To Make Medical Treatment Decisions: A Tale Of Two Doctrines 
Jessie Hill
07-27 December 2007
Tainted Provenance: When, If Ever, Should Torture Evidence Be Admissible? 
Michael P. Scharf
07-26 December 2007
Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land-Use Controls 
Jonathan H. Adler
07-25 December 2007
Can the Golden State Catch a Greenhouse Waiver? 
Jonathan H. Adler
07-24 December 2007
Solving the Contentious Issues of Private Conservation Easements: Promoting Flexibility for the Future and Engaging the Public Land Use Process 
Gerald Korngold
07-23 July 2007
Reviewing Jury Verdicts In Federal Court: The Overlooked Distinction Between The Sufficiency And Weight Of The Evidence 
Cassandra Burke Robertson
07-22 July 2007
The Case for a Flat-Earth Law School 
Erik M. Jensen
07-21 July 2007
Academics in Wonderland: The Team Production and Director Primacy Models of Corporate Governance 
George W. Dent Jr.
07-20 July 2007
Massachusetts v. EPA Heats Up Climate Policy No Less than Administrative Law: A Comment on Professors Watts and Wildermuth 
Jonathan H. Adler
07-19 July 2007
Warming Up to Climate Change Litigation 
Jonathan H. Adler
07-18 May 2007
Vincent as A Negligence Case: A Justificational Analysis 
Peter M. Gerhart
07-17 May 2007
Using and Abusing the Financial Markets: Money Laundering as the Achilles Heel of Terror Financing 
Amos N. Guiora and Brian J. Field
07-16 May 2007
Who Owns 'Hillary.Com'? Political Speech and the First Amendment in Cyberspace 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
07-15 May 2007
Plain Meaning vs. Broad Interpretation: How the Risk of Opportunism Defeats a Unitary Default Rule for Interpretation 
Juliet P. Kostritsky
07-14 April 2007
Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work? 
Sharona Hoffman
07-13 March 2007
Where are Terrorists to be Tried--A Comparative Analysis of Rights Granted to Suspected Terrorists 
Amos N. Guiora
07-12 March 2007
The Death of Strict Liability 
Peter M. Gerhart
07-11 March 2007
Interrogation of Detainees: Extending a Hand or a Boot? 
Amos N. Guiora
07-10 March 2007
The Lockerbie Model, a chapter to be published in INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (M. Cherif Bassiouni ed., 3rd ed, Transnational Publishers/Brill, 2007) 
Michael P. Scharf
07-9 February 2007
Chaos in the Courtroom: Controlling Disruptive Defendants and Contumacious Counsel in War Crimes Trials 
Michael P. Scharf
07-8 February 2007
Book Review: The Chief Purpose of Universities: Academic Discourse and the Diversity of Ideas, by William M. Bowen and Michael Schwartz 
Erik M. Jensen
07-7 February 2007
Taxation and Doing Business in Indian Country 
Erik M. Jensen
07-6 February 2007
Once more, with feeling: Reaffirming the limits of clean water act jurisdiction 
Jonathan H. Adler
07-5 February 2007
On Terrorism and Whistle-blowing 
Michael P. Scharf and Colin T. McLaughlin
07-4 February 2007
Resolving the Intergenerational Conflicts of Real Property Law: Preserving Free Markets and Personal Autonomy for Future Generations 
Gerald Korngold
07-3 February 2007
Snatch-and-Grab Ops: Justifying Extraterritorial Abduction 
Gregory S. McNeal and Brian Field
06-28 January 2007
Don’t Politicize Science (Unless You’re on My Side): Review of Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science (Revised and Updated) 
Jonathan H. Adler
06-27 January 2007
Market Fragmenting Regulation: Why Gasoline Costs So Much (and Why it's Going to Cost Even More) 
Andrew P. Morris and Nathaniel Stewart
06-26 December 2006
Securing the HIPAA Security Rule 
Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski
06-25 December 2006
F(r)ee Expression? Reconciling Copyright and the First Amendment 
Raymond Shih Ray Ku
06-24 November 2006
Wheir's the Beef?: Buffalo Law and Taxation 
Erik M. Jensen
06-23 November 2006
The Perils of Wishful Thinking about Abortion 
Jonathan L. Entin
06-22 October 2006
City Governments and Predatory Lending 
Jonathan L. Entin and Shadya Y. Yazback
06-21 October 2006
Taxation, Compensation, And Judicial Independence 
Jonathan L. Entin and Erik M. Jensen
06-20 October 2006
Reckoning with Rapanos: Revisiting “Waters of The United States” and the Limits of Federal Wetland Regulation 
Jonathan H. Adler
06-19 October 2006
Quirin to Hamdan: Creating a Hybrid Paradigm for the Detention of Terrorists 
Amos N. Guiora
06-18 September 2006
Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Deferral and the Utility of Amnesty 
Craig M. Boise
06-17 September 2006
Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle 
Craig Allen Nard & John F. Duffy
06-16 September 2006
Civil Rights for Whom?: Gay Rights Versus Religious Freedom 
George W. Dent, Jr.
06-15 September 2006
In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information 
Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski
06-14 August
Commerce vs Commentary: Gripe Sites, Parody and the First Amendment in Cyberspace 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
06-13 August 2006
Symposium Incomplete Contracts: Judicial Responses, Transactional Planning and Litigation -- Introduction 
Juliet P. Kostritsky
06-12 May 2006
Beyond Interstate Recognition in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate 
Gary J. Simson
06-11 May 2006
Why the Billy Mitchell Case Still Matters: Some Notes on the First Amendment, International Law, Civil Rights, and a Pioneer of Military 
Jonathan L. Entin
06-10 May 2006
Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization 
Anthony Paik, Ann Southworth, John P. Heinz
06-09 May 2006
When Is Two A Crowd? The Impact of Federal Action on State Environmental Regulation 
Jonathan H. Adler
06-08 April 2006
Transnational Comparative Analysis of Balancing Competing Interests in Counter-Terrorism 
Amos N. Guiora
06-07 March 2005
The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection 
Ilya Somin and Jonathan H. Adler
06-06 March 2006
Securities Regulation of Private Offerings in the Cyberspace Era: Legal Translation, Advertising and Business Context (Cybersecurities Symposium) 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
06-05 March 2006
TRIPS and Traditional Knowledge: Local Communities, Local Knowledge, and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
06-04 March 2006
Race, Rights, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Defining the Badges and Incidents of Slavery 
William M. Carter, Jr.
06-03 March 2006
Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw and the Law School 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
06-02 February 2006
Judicial Incorporation of Trade Usages: A Functional Solution to the Opportunism Problem 
Juliet P. Kostritsky
06-01 January 2006
Going Toe to Toe: President Barak’s and Chief Justice Rehnquist’s Theories of Judicial Activism 
Amos N. Guiora and Erin M. Page
05-39 November 2
The Pompous Postmaster and Presidential Power: The Story of 'Myers v. United States' 
Jonathan L. Entin
05-38 November 2005
Why the Federal Government did not Prosecute Emmett Till's Killers 
Jonathan L. Entin
05-37 October 20
IS MORRISON DEAD? Assessing a Supreme Drug (Law) Overdose 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-36 October 20
Self-Representation versus Assignment of Defence Counsel before International Criminal Tribunals 
Michael P. Scharf
05-35 October 2005
Forced Marriage: Exploring the Viability of the Special Court for Sierra Leone's New Crime Against Humanity 
Michael P. Scharf and Suzanne Mattler
05-34 September 2005
The Supreme Court and the Federalist Papers: Is There Less Here than Meets the Eye? 
Melvyn R. Durchslag
05-33 September 2005
Errors and Missteps: Key Lessons the Iraqi Special Tribunal Can Learn from the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL 
Michael P. Scharf and Ahran Kang
05-32 August 2005
Racially-Tailored Medicine Unraveled 
Sharona Hoffman
05-31 August 2005
From the eXile Files: An Essay on Trading Justice for Peace 
Michael P. Scharf
05-30 August 2005
Legislative and Policy Responses to Terrorism 
Amos N. Guiora
05-29 August 2005
Interpreting the Sixteenth Amendment (by Way of the Direct-Tax Clauses) 
Erik M. Jensen
05-28 August 2005
Revisiting the Manifesto and Rolling Back Computer Software Copyrights 
Jacqueline Lipton
05-27 August 2005
The Public-Private Security Partnership: Counterterrorism Considerations for Employers in a Post-9/11 World 
Andrew P. Morriss
05-26 August 2005
Counterterrorism and Employment: An Israeli Perspective 
Amos N. Guiora
05-25 August 2005
Employers Beware: The I-9 Form: Verifying Identity and Identity Documents in the Employment Context 
Jason Korosec
05-24 August 2005
Teaching Morality in Armed Conflict—The Israel Defence Forces Model 
Amos N. Guiora
05-23 August 2005
Looking Ahead to the 2005-2006 Term 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-22 August 2005
Corporate Governance: Still Broke, No Fix in Sight 
George W. Dent, Jr.
05-21 August 2005
Defining What to Regulate: Silica & the Problem of Regulatory Categorization 
Andrew P. Morriss & Susan E. Dudley
05-20 August 2005
The Market for Legal Education & Freedom of Association: Why the “Solomon Amendment” Is Constitutional and Law Schools Aren’t Expressive Associations 
Andrew P. Morriss
05-19 August 2005
Student Quality as Measured by LSAT Scores: Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era 
William D. Henderson & Andrew P. Morriss
05-18 July 2005
Jurisdictional Mismatch in Environmental Federalism 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-17 July 2005
Frank Meyer: Fusionist as Federalist 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-16 July 2005
Back to the Future of Conservation: Changing Perceptions of Property Rights & Environmental Protection 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-15 July 2005
Counter-terrorism and the Rule of Law 
Amos N. Guiora
05-14 July 2005
Targeted Killing as Active Self-Defense 
Amos N. Guiora
05-13 July 2005
The Unholy Trinity: Intelligence, Interrogation and Torture 
Amos N. Guiora
05-12 June 2005
Private Dispute Resolution in the Card Context: Structure, Reputation, and Incentives 
Andrew P. Morrisss & Jason Korosec
05-11 April 2005
When Good Intentions are not Enough: Problem-Solving Courts and the Impending Crisis of Legitimacy 
Timothy Casey
05-10 April 2005
The DRM Dilemma: Re-Aligning Rights Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
05-9 March 2005
Playing with 'Monopoly Money': Phony Profits, Fraud Penalties and Equity 
Craig M. Boise
05-8 March 2005
Putting Religious Symbolism in Context: A Linguistic Critique of the Endorsement Test 
Jessie Hill
05-7 March 2005
Race, Trust, Altruism and Reciprocity 
George W. Dent, Jr.
05-6 March 2005
The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
Jacqueline D. Lipton
05-5 February 2005
Grokking Grokster 
Raymond Shih Ray Ku
05-4 05-4 February 2005
The Suitability OF IRB Liability 
Sharona Hoffman & Jessica Wilen Berg
05-3 February 2005
Copyright on Catfish Row: Control and Compensation in Porgy and Bess 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
05-2 January 2005
Conservation Cartels 
Jonathan H. Adler
05-1 January 2005
Tax Fraud and Inflated Corporate Earnings: Is There an Alternative to the Missing Legislative Fix? 
Craig M. Boise
04-21 December 2004
From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
04-20 September 2004
Rethinking Confrontation After Crawford 
Dale A. Nance
04-19 September 2004
Cultural Autonomy and Cultural Hierarchies:
Sacred Spaces, Intellectual Property and Local Knowledge
 
Olufunmilayo Arewa
04-18 September 2004
Taxonomy for Justifying Legal Intervention in an Imperfect World: What to do when Parties Have Not Achieved Bargains or Have Drafted Incomplete Contracts 
Juliet P. Kostritsky
04-17 September 2004
Searching for the Soul of Judicial Decisionmaking: An Empirical Study of Religious Freedom Decisions 
Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise and Andrew P. Morriss
04-16 September 2004
Owning Persons: The application of property theory to embryos and fetuses 
Jessica Berg
04-15 September 2004
Hayek and Cowboys
Forthcoming: NYU Journal of Law and Liberty
 
Andrew P. Morriss
04-14 September 2004
Breaking Through the Intangibles Haze: Business Paradigms and Changing Business Discourse 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
04-13 September 2004
Blocking,Tackling and Holding:Boundaries, Marking and Strategic Business Uses of Intangibles 
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
04-12 August 2004
Constitutionalizing Patents: From Venice to Philadelphia 
Craig Allen Nard & Andrew P. Morriss
04-11 August 2004
RESUSCITATING PALSGRAF 
Peter M. Gerhart
04-10 August 2004
An Ohio Dilemma: Race, Equal Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill of Rights 
Jonathan L. Entin
04-9 August 2004
Being the Government Means (Almost) Never Having to Say You're Sorry: The Sam Sheppard Case and the Meaning of Wrongful Imprisonment 
Jonathan L. Entin
04-8 June 2004
Copyright, the Constitution & Progress 
Raymond Shih Ray Ku
04-7 April 2004
Signaling and Precedent in Federal District Court Opinions 
Andrew P. Morriss, Michael Heise, and Gregory C. Sisk
04-6 April 2004
Judicial Federalism and the Future of Federal Environmental Regulation 
Jonathan H. Adler
04-5 April 2004
Invention, Refinement and Patent Claim Scope: A New Perspective on the Doctrine of Equivalents 
Michael J. Meurer and Craig Allen Nard
04-4 April 2004
Is There a Place For 'RACE' as a Legal Concept?
Forthcoming in Arizona State Law Journal
 
Sharona Hoffman
04-3 April 2004
Choosing How to Regulate 
Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle, & Andrew Dorchak
04-2 April 2004
Homesteading Rock: A Defense of Free Access Under the General Mining Law of 1872 
Andrew P. Morriss, Roger E. Meiners and Andrew Dorchak
04-1 February 2004
Ake v. Oklahoma: The Right to Expert Assistance in a Post-Daubert, Post-DNA World 
Paul C. Giannelli
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NEWS
Posted Jul 1
Professor Adler quoted in national news about Ricci v. DeStefano ruling
Jonathan Adler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, has been quoted by many media outlets including the Associated Press, The Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano and the implications for Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor
Posted Jun 30
Professor Scharf speaks to international experts about JCE
School of Law Professor Michael Scharf delivered the “Grotian Lecture” at the Asser Institute in The Hague on June 23, 2009, to an audience of 150 international criminal law experts.

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