He has studied and taught law in France and was dean of the law and economics faculty at the University of Dakar, Senegal.
The EEOC is confident that its guidance will boost minority hiring, but studies published in the University of Chicago Legal Forum and the Journal of Law and Economics have found that businesses are much less likely to hire minority applicants when background checks are banned.
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In the 1980s, that dynamic changed as the infusion of law and economics principles transformed the foundations of antitrust enforcement.
Never mind the morality of what brought the parties to court, the law-and-economics crowd said: The courts are a mechanism for shoving the costs on the parties best suited to pay them.
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The union of law and economics may have had its greatest impact in the anti-trust field.
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The law-and-economics framework for analysing mergers, for example, does not obviate the need for trust-busters to make educated guesses about how competition might develop in future.
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The debate takes another twist with a new book by John Lott, a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago.
Mr. Sunstein, a prolific academic with wide-ranging interests, may be best known for advancing a field known as "law and behavioral economics" that seeks to shape law and policy around the way research shows people actually behave.
Whether the justices rely on points of law, environmental science or economics, the facts and the statute will yield the same answer: Overturn the Ninth Circuit ruling.
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His state visit to Chile bolsters it as the region's model of good economics, transparency and the rule of law (see article).
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There is also along with the marketisation of higher education there's a greater and greater emphasis on vocational and pre-career university courses and the advertising and marketing of vocational and pre-career - accounting, law, economics, finance, engineering, applied sciences - these are becoming very, very popular, undergraduate curricula in these areas are expanding dramatically, a faculty who are teaching in these areas are paid better and better.
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A. from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Boston University, Nina has practiced law for about twenty years but admits her first unsuccessful foray was with a partner who left her holding a significant amount of debt.
The law of unintended consequences is one of the staples of an introductory economics course, and there are a lot of unintended consequences that can be avoided with better policy.
However, just thinking of economics 101, the law of supply and demand implies that if less of something is available there is a good chance the price of what on the market will increase.
At one level, the Google matter raises a host of interesting questions involving antitrust law and economics.
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Tuckwell, with a background in both economics and law, not only took the reins for such a product but anted up capital.
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C. and raised in Los Angeles, California, Richardson has a BA from Howard University, a JD from Howard University School of Law, and a Masters in International Affairs from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Hazlett is a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, where he directs the Information Economy Project.
The recently departed James Sadowksy, SJ, of Fordham University, made important contributions to economics and opened the eyes of many libertarian thinkers to Natural Law.
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All over the world there is now much more economics taught in law schools, more lawyers and judges are familiar with economics, and more economists are concentrating on law-related work.
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But it has been wretched both in economics and in its adherence to democratic principles and the rule of law.
Bernie received his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Oakland University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
There is still substantial room for differences of opinion which may explain why, while Mr Bork is advising Netscape in the Internet firm's encouragement of antitrust action against Microsoft, many other law-and-economics theorists have lined up on Microsoft's side.
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Edgardo Buscaglia, a professor of law and economics at Columbia University, specializes in organized crime, and has advised the United Nations and the World Bank.
Law and economics teaches that insider trading causes no important harm and, by transmitting the inside information to the market, brings an important benefit: more accurate share prices.
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Sirius and XM commissioned Hazlett - currently a law and economics professor at George Mason University -- to write a brief to the FCC on behalf of their merger.
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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year, Mr. Sunstein said Mr. Obama was intrigued by "law and behavioral economics" as an approach to regulation that would avoid ideological extremes.
"The entire flexible-spending account thing is a waste of our taxpayer dollars, " says Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former paid consultant on the health law to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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