Balancing the Conspiracy’s Books: Inter-Competitor Sales and Price-Fixing Cartels
Christopher R. Leslie
Price fixing is antithetical to a free-market economy. Competitive markets supply goods and services to consumers at the lowest efficient prices. Unfortunately, many businesses would prefer not to compete because they can increase their profits by conspiring to raise price.…
Law and the Epistemology of Disagreements
Alex Stein
This Article identifies a discrepancy between law and epistemology and proposes a way to fix it. Our legal system relies on decisions of multimember tribunals, which include juries, state and federal appellate courts, and supreme courts. Members of those tribunals…
Evolved Standards, Evolving Justices? The Case for a Broader Application of the Eighth Amendment
William W. Berry III
In its Eighth Amendment cases, the Supreme Court has often cited counter-majoritarian considerations as the basis for exercising judicial restraint. As a result, excessive and draconian punishments persist in the United States, with the Court being hesitant to use the…
Mahr Provisions and the Case for Shari’a Arbitration
Cora Allen
The global Muslim population is currently estimated at 1.8 billion people, comprising twenty-four percent of the total global population. The United States alone is home to 3.45 million Muslim individuals. Further, both global and national Muslim populations are predicted to…
No Pay for Sexist Performance: How Gender Disparities in Healthcare Hurt Hospitals’ Pay for Performance Reimbursements
Emily C. Bartlett
Gender disparities and discrimination in healthcare treatment are vast. Women in pain are deemed hysterical, heart attacks in women are caught less frequently than in men due to symptom presentation differences, and women are screened less often than men for…
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