Yakima Herald-Republic articles from April 2003

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from April 2003

Engineering a venture capital market: lessons from the American experience.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND CONTRACTUAL STRUCTURE OF U.S. VENTURE CAPITAL II. THE ECONOMICS OF VENTURE CAPITAL CONTRACTING: THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF UNCERTAINTY, INFORMATION ASYMMETRY, AND AGENCY COSTS A....

The language of property: form, context, and audience.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. AUDIENCES IN POSSESSION AND RELATED LAW II. AN INFORMATIONAL TRADEOFF IN LANGUAGE AND THE LAW A. Information and Intensiveness 1. Convention and semantic meaning 2. Nonconventional or pragmatic meaning and...

Shooting down the "more guns, less crime" hypothesis.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. THEORETICAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF INCREASED CARRYING OF CONCEALED HANDGUNS II. EMPIRICAL ISSUES IN ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF INCREASED CARRYING OF CONCEALED HANDGUNS A. Introducing Explanatory Variables into...

Confirming "more guns, less crime".(examination of Ian Ayres and John Donohue's evidence that right-to-carry gun laws increase crime)
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. WHAT DOES THEIR EVIDENCE SHOW? A. Is There a "Robbery Effect"? B. Murder Rates C. Rapes and Aggravated Assaults D. Critiques of Year-by-Year Breakdown of the Law's Impact E. The Estimated Benefits from the...

The latest misfires in support of the "More Guns, Less Crime" hypothesis.(response to article by Florenz Plassmann and John Whitley in this issue, p. 1313)
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. THE DATA STRONGLY REJECT AGGREGATE SPECIFICATIONS II. THE DISAGGREGATED REGRESSIONS SHOW THAT CONCEALED-CARRY LAWS TEND TO INCREASE CRIME III. THE PW REGRESSIONS ON THE NEW COUNTY DATASET ARE ALL FATALLY FLAWED BY...

Screening versus plea bargaining: exactly what are we trading off?(response to article by Ronald Wright and Marc Miller, Stanford Law Review, vol. 55, p. 29, 2002)
April 1, 2003... I was delighted to be invited to comment on Ronald Wright and Marc Miller's important and instructive article, The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff. (1) Those familiar with the authors' work, including their original and fascinating criminal...

Honesty and opacity in charge bargains.(response to article by Gerard Lunch in this issue, p. 1399)
April 1, 2003... Judge Gerard Lynch has helped legal scholars recognize what observers in the trenches have known for years: American criminal justice systems have become administrative systems mn by executive-branch officials (namely, prosecutors). (1) In...

Patriotic or unconstitutional? The mandatory detention of aliens under the USA Patriot Act.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I. STATUTORY ANALYSIS: THE USA PATRIOT ACT IMMIGRATION PROVISIONS A. Section 412: Mandatory Detention of "Certified" Aliens B. The Effect of Section 412 II. THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT III....

The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... THE REHNQUIST CHOICE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NIXON APPOINTMENT THAT REDEFINED THE SUPREME COURT. By John W. Dean. ([dagger]) New York: Free Press. 2001. 333 pp. John Dean, as all of us who lived through Watergate will remember, was...