Recently added articles from Regulation:

A final response to Menell.(FOR THE RECORD)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 22, 2008; Epstein, Richard A. ... At this point, I am at a loss to know how to reply to Peter Menell ("Intellectual Property and the Law of Land," Winter 2007-2008), who introduced a dens ex machina to salvage his inaccurate summarization of my published work. His initial broadside ("Intellectual Property and ...

Coroners and 'The Big Kill'.(FOR THE RECORD)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 22, 2008; Olson, Carl ... The best professionals to consult about the possibility of deaths due to secondhand smoke ("Calculating the Big Kill," Winter 2008) are the ones who deal with it daily. That is, coroners and medical examiners. The largest county in the country by population is Los Angeles ...

Free sex chat?(BRIEFLY NOTED)

Mar 22, 2008; Hixon, Christopher ... Why would the operators of websites like hotlivesexchat.com, allfreecalls.net, and freecalls2theworld.com route phone calls to their services through rural American towns like Riceville, Iowa? To take advantage of complicated telecommunications regulations and make a bundle of money from ...

Bush at midnight.(BRIEFLY NOTED)

Mar 22, 2008; de Rugy, Veronique ... Lame duck presidents' ability to achieve anything in the last months of their presidency has been compared to "a balloon with a slow leak that shrinks with each passing week until it hits the ground." And yet in his last days in office, President Bill Clinton managed to rush through an ...

The temptation of media regulation: why not unbundle episodes or innings?(TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY)(Company overview)

Mar 22, 2008; Owen, Bruce M. ... Regarding mass media policy, the bookends of the political spectrum often find common ground. Left and right agree that mass media content is not satisfactory and that more or better federal regulation is the solution. The right seeks to reduce the availability, both to themselves and ...

Global warming and social justice: do we owe the world for climate change?(ENVIRONMENT)

Mar 22, 2008; Posner, Eric A. ... Climate change raises serious questions of science and economics, but it also raises questions of justice. The United States has been the world's leading contributor to the problem, and it is also the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth. Because of its past contributions, does the ...

Four lessons from the whole foods case: the antitrust analysis of mergers should be reconsidered.(ANTITRUST)

Mar 22, 2008; Lambert, Thomas A. ... One of the most maligned antitrust decisions in history involved a merger of grocery store chains. Indeed, even those voices inclined toward substantial antitrust intervention believe the U.S. Supreme Court erred in its 1966 Von's Grocery decision, which condemned the merger of the third- ...

A solution to airport delays: an auction for takeoff and landing slots would make more efficient use of scarce resources.(TRANSPORTATION)

Mar 22, 2008; Whalen, W. Tom ... As highlighted in recent news articles, airport delays are increasing significantly. Both the Bush administration and Congress are actively seeking ways to reduce the scope of the problem and better protect the rights of passengers in case of May. Delays occur because airport capacity ...