March, 2020
The Misuse of Tobin’s q
Mar. 25, 2020—Robert Bartlett & Frank Partnoy | 73 Vand. L. Rev. 353 (2020) | In recent years, scholars have addressed the most important topics in corporate law based on a flawed assumption: that the ratio of the market value of a corporation’s securities to their book value is a valid measure of the value of the...
Broken Records: Reconceptualizing Rational Basis Review to Address “Alternative Facts” in the Legislative Process
Mar. 25, 2020—Joseph Landau | 73 Vand. L. Rev. 425 (2020) | In 2016, North Carolina passed “HB2,” also known as the “bathroom ban”—a law prohibiting transgender individuals from accessing public restrooms corresponding to their gender identity—based on the unfounded fear that cisgender men posing as transgender women would assault women and girls in bathrooms. Around the...
Patenting New Uses for Old Inventions
Mar. 25, 2020—Sean B. Seymore | 73 Vand. L. Rev. 478 (2020) | A bedrock principle of patent law is that old inventions cannot be patented. And a new use for an old invention does not render the old invention patentable. This is because patent law requires novelty—an invention must be new. But while a new use...
Shackling Prejudice: Expanding the Deck v. Missouri Rule to Nonjury Proceedings
Mar. 25, 2020—Sadie Shourd | 73 Vand. L. Rev. 535 (2020) | Courts in the United States have traditionally held that criminal defendants have the right to be free from unwarranted restraints visible to the jury during the guilt phase of a trial. The term “unwarranted restraints” refers to the use of restraints on a defendant absent...
Artistic Justice: How the Executive Branch Can Facilitate Nazi-Looted Art Restitution
Mar. 25, 2020—Paige Tenkhoff | 73 Vand. L. Rev. 569 (2020) | Eight decades after the Holocaust, many pieces of art stolen from Jewish families still sit in the state-owned museums of former Nazialigned regimes. In an effort to right old wrongs, plaintiffs are bringing suit in the United States against the foreign governments who retain the...