Labor Law: Injunctions: Order Restraining Election Aboard "Flag-of-Convenience" Vessel

Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes

Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VB...

The Appearance of Election Law

The Supreme Court decided 402 election law cases during the twentieth century. That statistic, and lots of other helpful information, is gleaned from the excellent summary of election law written by Rick Hasen. Professor Hasen is the nation’s most prolific election law scholar: co-author of an election law casebook, host of the leading election law web site, and author of numerous law review ar...

Preliminary Injunctions and Damage Rules in Patent Law

This paper shows that preliminary injunctions may be sought in patent cases to obtain market power during the period of the injunction and are likely to be sought only where there is a small probability that the patent will be ultimately found valid. Both patentee and alleged infringer benefit from a preliminary injunction. This is an artifact of the asymmetry of current damage rules. Altering ...

Operating an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler aboard a Container Vessel

Since October 1992 an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) has been in near-continuous operation on board a 118-m-long container vessel, the container motor vessel Oleander, which operates on a weekly schedule between Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Hamilton, Bermuda. The ADCP collects information on currents from the surface to depths as great as 404 m depending on zooplankton concentratio...

The Election of Tagore Law Professor