Rod MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon - Nobel Lecture

All living cells are surrounded by a thin, approximately 40 Å thick lipid bilayer called the cell membrane. The cell membrane holds the contents of a cell in one place so that the chemistry of life can occur, but it is a barrier to the movement of certain essential ingredients including the ions Na+, K+, Ca2+ and Cl-. The barrier to ion flow across the membrane – known as the dielectric barrier...

Approximate Bias Correction in EconometricsbyJames G . MacKinnon

This paper discusses methods for reducing the bias of consistent estimators that are biased in nite samples. These methods are available whenever the bias function, which relates the bias of the parameter estimates to the values of the parameters, can be estimated by computer simulation or by some other method. If so, bias can be reduced by one full order in the sample size and, in some cases t...

Janice MacKinnon MEDICARE ’ S MID - LIFE CRISIS

Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon

Marx and Mackinnon: The Promise and Perils of Marxism for Feminist Legal Theory

Catherine MacKinnon, perhaps the dominant voice of North American feminist legal theory over the last two decades, developed her feminist theory of law through an extended metaphor with Marxism. Marxist thought thus became thoroughly intertwined with MacKinnon’s particular brand of radical feminism in the minds of many feminist legal scholars and activists. As MacKinnon’s work has fallen out of...