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An empirical examination of the equal protection challenge to contingency fee restrictions in medical malpractice reform statutes. 医疗事故改革法规中对应急费用限制的平等保护挑战的实证研究。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2006-11-01

Casey L Dwyer

引用次数: 0

Taking the sting out of reporting requirements: reproductive health clinics and the constitutional right to informational privacy. 消除报告要求的刺痛:生殖健康诊所和宪法规定的信息隐私权。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2006-11-01

Jessica Ansley Bodger

引用次数: 0

Is Secured Debt Used to Redistribute Value from Tort Claimants in Bankruptcy? An Empirical Analysis 担保债务是否用于破产侵权索赔人价值的再分配?实证分析

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2006-06-15 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.909225

Yair Listokin

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引用次数: 16

Title VII disparate impact suits against state governments after Hibbs and Lane. 在希布斯和莱恩之后针对州政府的第七条歧视影响诉讼。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2005-12-01

Claude Platton

引用次数: 0

How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court 异议如何成为多数:利用联邦制改变美国最高法院的联盟

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2005-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.846585

V. Baird, Tonja Jacobi

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引用次数: 20

Political Trials in Domestic and International Law 国内法和国际法中的政治审判

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2005-04-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.707870

E. Posner

引用次数: 97

Valuing life: a plea for disaggregation. 珍视生命:对分解的请求。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2004-11-01

Cass R Sunstein

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Rehabilitating bioethics: recontextualizing in vitro fertilization outside contractual autonomy. 恢复生物伦理:契约自主之外的体外受精重新语境化。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2004-11-01

Olivia Lin

引用次数: 0

When privacy fails: invoking a property paradigm to mandate the destruction of DNA samples. 当隐私失效时:调用财产范式来强制销毁DNA样本。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2004-10-01

Leigh M Harlan

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Commons ignorance: the failure of environmental law to produce needed information on health and the environment. 公共无知:环境法未能提供有关健康和环境的必要信息。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Duke Law Journal Pub Date : 2004-04-01

Wendy E Wagner

引用次数: 0