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Volume 109 - Issue 6

The Police Power Revisited: Phantom Incorporation and the Roots of the Takings "Muddle"

By Bradley C. Karkkainen. Full text here. Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. exposed a deep flaw in regulatory takings doctrine. Lingle rejected the Agins holding that if a regulation does not “substantially advance a legitimate state interest,” it is a compensable taking. That formulation, Lingle said, was based on substantive due process precedents and is better…

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Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards

By Jonathan Klick & Gregory Mitchell. Full text here. Behavioral law and economics scholars who advance paternalistic policy proposals typically employ static models of decision-making behavior, despite the dynamic effects of paternalistic policies. This Article considers how paternalistic policies fare under a dynamic account of decision making that incorporates learning and motivation effects. This approach brings…

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