University of Pennsylvania Law Review articles from November 1997

University of Pennsylvania Law Review archives from November 1997

Tying meets the new institutional economics: farewell to the chimera of forcing.
November 1, 1997... Tying contracts--agreements conditioning the sale of one, "tying" product upon an agreement to purchase a second, "tied" product--are endemic in the modern economy.(1) Firms that sell copying machines often seek to require their customers to...

Organized illusions: a behavioral theory of why corporations mislead stock market investors (and cause other social harms).
November 1, 1997... Rationality is a strong assumption in the legal literature about how corporations and other organizations behave in market settings. The modern transaction-Cost economics on which most Contemporary corporate scholarship is based(1) concedes...

'n' guilty men. (determinations of the number of guilty who may go free in order for the innocent not to be wrongly convicted)
November 1, 1997... And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are...

Are verdicts, too, like sausages? Lifting the cloak of jury secrecy.
November 1, 1997... If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.(1) This Comment argues that jury deliberations should be transcribed as part of the ordinary trial record and be subject to a limited judicial review....

Implicit redefinitions, evidentiary proscriptions, and guilty minds: intoxicated wrongdoers.(Case Note)
November 1, 1997... You heard all about drugs. Sin ain't sin when good folks take a little pill, smoke a little marijuana. "I really didn't intend to kill that police officer." I don't buy that and I don't believe you do. A man doesn't take ...