Federalism as Docket Control

Federalism as a Public Good

This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications of these results for the institutional design of federalism. 1For useful feedback, I thank seminar participants at Washington University, Duke, and Michigan. Federalism now rea...

Patent Cases Docket Classification

We contribute to the Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC) project by providing an extensive experimental evaluation of two classification techniques, namely classification trees and support vector machines. We focus on dockets belonging to the “Claim Construction order” class and we build classifiers that achieve up to 87% precision with 88% recall. This provides a 79% improvem...

Re: Docket Number 1980N – 0208

A second pathway for licensure of vaccines and drugs for bioterrorism, the so-called Animal Rule promulgated by FDA in 2002, requires data obtained from at least two animal species, in conjunction with correlates of immunity that assure the animal data can be extrapolated to humans with absolute reliability. No such correlates of immunity (i.e., surrogate markers for survival following exposure...

Federalism as an Effective Antidote to Terrorism

Many governments as well as terrorist experts see the use of military and police forces as the only way to effectively counter terrorism. The most effective negative sanctions are considered to be military strikes, aggressive actions (including kidnapping and killing) against individuals known or suspected of being terrorists, or against persons supporting and harboring terrorists. Overt and co...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.