332 Franklin Boggs Pill Call circa 1944 " Soldiers suffering from malaria get their daily quota of atabrine tablets from the Medical Corps captain. Artist Boggs caught this scene in the South Pacific. " This image clearly captures the doctor, attired in his crisp uniform, clipboard in hand, dispensing medicine to protect and " conserve the fighting force. INTRODUCTION that would depart from mil...

Traditionally, Congress and commentators view administrative law as having little to do with patent litigation. There has been a recent increase, however, in various types of patent litigation that involve regulatory determinations, such as Hatch-Waxman Act patent litigation, section 337 proceedings in the ITC, standard essential organization (SEO) licensing lawsuits, and “biosimilar” cases. An...

The major development agencies have ex cathedra ‘Official Views’ (with varying degrees of explicitness) on the complex and controversial questions of development. At the same time, knowledge is now more than ever recognised as key to development—in the idea of a ‘knowledge bank’ or knowledge-based development assistance. The author argues that these two practices are in direct conflict. When an...

In this paper we examine the influence of minority expropriation on disclosure level in France where shareholders are poorly protected and the main agency problem is the one between controlling and minority shareholders (type II conflict) while prior studies have been undertaken in the United States, in a context of ownership dispersion and high investor protection where the main agency conflic...

In professional service markets, clients who are product market competitors are often reluctant to work with the same service agency. This can effectively restrict the choice set of clients seeking matches, and it may cause agency mergers to reduce efficiency even when static pricing inefficiencies are absent. To understand the importance of conflict, I construct a new data set on matches betwe...