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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wu]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher's last post does a good job of crystallizing the differences between us on the last mile. In closing, let's look at where we differ.<br><br>Chris believes that, at least when it comes to information networks, technology is changing the conditions for market entry in physical networking. He points to fiber]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 10:39:17 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Yoo]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree that the high fixed costs have long represented one of the defining features of the telecommunications industry and the touchstone of all telecommunications policy. For decades, the conventional wisdom accepted that local telecommunications networks were natural monopolies and that competition among multiple last-mile networks was infeasible. Thus, even]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 07:49:42 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wu]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris brings up the economics of the last mile, which are worth talking about, and to my mind unendingly interesting. They are a short-cut for talking about the economics of infrastructure, which is really the center of this debate.<br><br>So the classic challenge with infrastructure projects like the last mile is]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 07:05:32 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Yoo]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Schumpeterian thesis (that large firms are more innovative) has spawned a huge empirical literature that is largely inconclusive.  ATandT provides an excellent example.  On the one hand, the Bell System created a telephone network that was the envy of the world and pioneered Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs such]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 08:23:45 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wu]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the difference between Christopher's view and mine own stems from how we think the process of innovation occurs. Christopher, rather like the later Schumpeter, believes that large firmsand#0151;in this case, network operatorsand#0151;drive telecommunications innovation. As the later Schumpeter put it, the ''large-scale establishment'' is ''the most powerful]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 07:05:38 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Yoo]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To date, the debate has focused primarily on a type of discrimination known as "access tiering," in which network owners charge websites and application providers more for premium (i.e., higher speed) service.  Access tiering could provide benefits similar to those provided by the emergence of premium mail services like]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 11:58:17 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wu]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Network neutrality is just a way of talking about discrimination, so let's talk about discrimination, on networks or otherwise. Whether it comes to employment, networks, or just about anything else, no one really believes in systems that ban discrimination completely. In employment, for example, you want to be able to]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 07:09:29 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Yoo]]>: Keeping The Internet Neutral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, the House and the Senate have been debating "network neutrality" legislation, which would prohibit network owners from discriminating against particular applications and content providers. I am not convinced that deviations from network neutrality will necessarily harm consumers and innovation. On the contrary, competition and innovation might be]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S. Yoo and Timothy Wu debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 04:52:06 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Marmor]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased we have found common ground on the variety of purposes served by medical care. But your immediate leap to the conclusion that market exchange best serves this mix is a non sequitur. It only follows if you accept the premise that market allocation always best serves any]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:21:37 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Tanner]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm particular struck by your comment that people approach medical care with a wide diversity of goals. I couldn't agree more. That is precisely why I think those things should be left to the market. No political arrangement can devise a product that reconciles the widely varying needs of millions]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:10:27 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Marmor]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we are getting somewhere in this debate. By that I mean our positions may become clearer by noting, candidly, where we differ rather than where one of us is right or wrong. So, for instance, you note in the opening paragraph of today's comment that "the ultimate basis]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:15:11 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Tanner]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the ultimate basis for our disagreement is that we are headed to different destinations. You clearly believe that universal coverage is an important goal of health policy. I'm pretty much indifferent to it. The relationship between insurance coverage and access to care and quality of care is tenuous]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:26:59 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Marmor]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The style of this "debate," the organizers suggest, should be conversational, and I am delighted to participate in that spirit. Your opening comments about the new Massachusetts health insurance statute had, if you will forgive me, features of a shotgun blast from a considerable distance: the buckshot hit here and]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:28:05 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Tanner]]>: A Car-Insurance Model For Health Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts's plan to mandate insurance coverage responds to a legitimate concern over "free riders," the uninsured who nonetheless receive treatment while passing the costs on to taxpayers or individuals with insurance. But in doing so it represents an unprecedented intrusion into individual autonomy and decision making. This would be the]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore R. Marmor and Michael D. Tanner debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:30:41 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Kesan]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike, I agree there is some common ground in our positions with respect to some aspects of <i>Daubert</i>.  Nevertheless, there are some issues from my previous post that require some expatiating to better clarify my areas of concern.<br> <br>I am glad that you can see the merit in having]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:30:46 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Martinez]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon, Jay.  Your latest posting stakes out a good bit of common ground.  I never said <i>Daubert</i> and the process it has created is perfect.  In fact, I think I indicated the opposite on Tuesday.  So I agree with you there probably are ways to]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:25:12 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Kesan]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, Mike, I appreciate your points and they are well-taken.  In tort litigation, plaintiffs and/or their attorneys may conduct studies to prove their case, and they are certainly looking to bolster their case.  But, as you pointed out, tests conducted during litigation can be scrutinized thoroughly if relied]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:32:33 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Martinez]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Jay, my college debate professor was correct.  When your opponent starts by saying "Mike you are right," watch the argument you just made get turned on its head.  And indeed that is what you have done.  My hypothetical yesterday was designed to demonstrate how a defendant]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:28:21 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Kesan]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike, you are right.  The hypothetical situation you describe involves a defendant corporation that decides that "scientific tests of some kind might be useful to bolster its case" and then proceeds to perhaps conduct such tests and present the results to the court.<br><br>Normally, this situation permits the opposing side]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:15:31 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Martinez]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, Jay.  I'll just dive in:  I do not buy into your term "outcome-driven science" because I think the term improperly suggests the conclusion you seek to reach.  Let's look at it another way.  Parties are engaged in complex scientific or technical litigation that requires]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:33:57 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Kesan]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks, Mike, for kicking off this discussion about scientific evidence in the courts and the <i>Daubert</i> standard.  <br><br>Mike notes that <i>Daubert</i> was the Supreme Court's effort to keep junk science out of the courtroom.  I agree that <i>Daubert</i> and its progeny, <i>Joiner</i> and <i>Kumho Tire</i>, attempt to]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_daubert0406.msp#Monday-Kesan</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:10:14 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Martinez]]>: Judges In Lab Coats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting question, particularly as it is framed.  There should not be any blanket bar on commissioned scientific studies that are developed for possible use in litigation.  Rather, such studies should be analyzed and subjected to the same rigorous analysis applied to other scientific and]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael L. Martinez and Jay P. Kesan debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:44:32 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Katz Rothman]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is important, as you have noted, that the fertility experts have never questioned the legitimacy of the desire for sex selection, but only the risks in achieving it. And, as clinicians, they can focus only on individual risks, specific health risks facing women who use particular technologies to achieve]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:52:39 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Robertson]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that choosing sex sounds "sexist," but I view it as a choice of a different set of rearing experiences rather than of a particular social or personal characteristics as such, and a choice that is fully consistent with equal rights for women in all public spheres.<br><br>But why would]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:20:24 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Katz Rothman]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a little unclear about what "biological" differences you are celebrating. Racism takes whatever differences are biologicaland#0151;skin color, hair texture, eye shapeand#0151;and goes on to make assumptions about personality, values, abilities, interests. Sexism does the same, taking genitalia and reproductive potential as the biologic and then making assumptions about personality,]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_sex-selection0306.msp#Thursday-Katz Rothman</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:22:53 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Robertson]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to stick to new technologies such as sperm and embryo sorting because we are still in the process of developing them. Many issues remain to be worked out, including the marketing issues that you mention and the role of professional guidelines in screening and counseling patients.<br><br>But you do]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:52:45 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Katz Rothman]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't really see how or why we should stay away from abortion. It is the dominant method being used in the world, including in the United States, for sex selection. The original question that began this debate specifically said "Should it be unlawful for parents to select an infant's]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:42:37 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Robertson]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm happy to stay on social effects for a while, but let's stay away from abortion. While important in Asia, it won't be used for sex selection in the West if sperm sorting and embryo selection will work. So it is a doctor issue after alland#0151;it's pretty hard to separate]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:04:02 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Katz Rothman]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well now that we've managed to put the law aside, let's try to put aside the moral issues too, and focus on the social issues. As a sociologist, that's certainly where I'm most comfortable. <br><br>You say that you agree with me that "the issue comes down to whether doctors offering]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_sex-selection0306.msp#Tuesday-Katz Rothman</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:57:53 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Robertson]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Barbara, you've reassured me that you too are a good liberal who doesn't want the government mucking about in people's reproductive and family lives, even if people sometimes make choices that we don't like. As long as we are not talking about a law against non-medical sex selection, I]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:48:06 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Katz Rothman]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not going to be speaking in favor of using the law to handle this. The law is a very blunt instrument, and not at all suitable to the problem at hand.<br><br>But John, it is a problemand#0151;don't kid yourself about that.<br><br>I'm not about to argue against "choice," against any woman's]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_sex-selection0306.msp#Monday-Katz Rothman</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:10:19 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Robertson]]>: Choosing Your Child's Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<i>Roe v. Wade</i> sets no limits on the reasons for abortion, and compared to abortion, non-medical sex selection will continue to be relatively rare unless preconception sperm separation or pre-implantation screening of embryos is certified as safe and effective. Despite this pragmatic difference, the very idea of using high-tech means]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John A. Robertson and Barbara Katz Rothman debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:52:00 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Spaht]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, please allow me to respond to your last two points:<br><br>I don't believe that the effects on the divorce rate of easy unilateral divorce can be effectively measuredand#0151;and I think Paul Amato would agree. Besides, I believe that Leora Friedberg's work measuring the effect in a state of the adoption]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:32:41 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wolfers]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that we have pretty much exhausted this line of debate, and the things that we agree and disagree about are probably reasonably clear. Thus, let me just make two simple points, and then pose a question.<br><br>Too much of our debate so far has focused on the effects of]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:36:17 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Spaht]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is because at-fault divorce permits a couple to get a divorce if they <i>both</i> agree that it differs from the no-fault option. Unilateral divorceand#0151;unilateral repudiation in over 85% of the casesand#0151;is what I oppose vociferously. <br><br>I worry about what empirical data supports in terms of who most often seeks]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:45:03 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wolfers]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To reiterate: The question is whether it makes sense for New York to move away from a fault-based divorce system. This is important, because under that system a marriage will usually dissolve if that is what both spouses want (they can simply falsify evidence of adultery), while under the proposed]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:53:18 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Spaht]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, I must observe that any change in divorce law that liberalizes the rules of dissolution of marriage necessarily, I believe, is relevant to the broader debates about appropriate, or desirable, social policy. Furthermore, I believe that there are abstract dimensions to changes in law, and thus to public policy,]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:37:14 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wolfers]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katherine makes two points, and both are important: Sometimes couples may dissolve otherwise functional relationships for "soft" reasonsand#0151;presumably out of either stupidity or selfishnessand#0151;and this may have an important impact on children.<br><br>While both points are relevant to broader debates about appropriate social policy, neither are relevant to the current debate]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:36:04 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Spaht]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York, I agree, has the advantage not enjoyed by the other 46 states who by the middle of the 1970s followed California's lead and enacted unilateral no-fault divorce. Many of the redactors were very well-intentioned and optimistic that divorce under a unilateral no-fault scheme would prove less harmful and]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:35:20 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Wolfers]]>: Finding Fault With No-Fault Divorce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York is in the unique situation among all U.S. states of being able to decide its divorce laws in light of substantial analysis of the experience of other states when they made this change. And so I am sure that we can all agree that the evidence from these]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers and Katherine S. Spaht debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:09:22 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Collett]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim began our dialogue by charging that parental involvement laws "reflect a larger campaign against legalized abortion in this country instead of a narrow focus on the needs of young women." She concludes by reproving me for "citing extreme cases of bad actors to cast aspersions upon an industry that]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_parental-notification0306.msp#Friday-Collett</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:54:44 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Mutcherson]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I take issue with the unsupported inferences Teresa draws from data about the involvement of boyfriends in the abortion decisions of young women. She is correct that many young women who do  not consult with parents about an abortion decision seek counsel from their sexual partners. At the same]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:25:53 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Collett]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim's confidence that a minor who refuses to involve a parent in her decisions regarding her pregnancy will have the counsel of another trustworthy adult is not borne out by the research in this area. A survey of 1500 unmarried minors having abortions revealed that among minors who reported that]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_parental-notification0306.msp#Thursday-Collett</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:06:17 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Mutcherson]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike Teresa, I do not see a clear medical benefit to parental involvement in a young woman's abortion decision unless the young woman has voluntarily chosen to include her parents in that decision. I return to my earlier assertion that most young women do not make isolated decisions to have]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:32:30 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Collett]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to Kim's response to the clear medical benefits that parental involvement laws provide to minors. In addition to improved medical care for minors, parental-involvement laws also protect minors against sexual exploitation of minors by adult men. In 1995 the Department of Health and Human Services reported to]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_parental-notification0306.msp#Wednesday-Collett</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:53:55 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Mutcherson]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teresa is correct that the law requires parental consent for most medical care provided to minors. However, the exceptions to this general rule are instructive and explain why forced parental involvement in abortion decisions is problematic. All states allow minors to consent to testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:39:09 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Collett]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim characterizes abortion as "any other medical procedure." We require parental consent with almost every other medical procedure involving minors. And for good reasonand#0151;because we believe that parents are in the best position to insure that young people receive appropriate medical care. The legal assumption about abortion should be no]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:26:51 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Mutcherson]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teresa's post highlights some potential limitations of studies that attempt to gather information about various aspects of the contentious abortion debate in this country. While I accept that Teresa questions study methodology and finds bias, I continue to believe that the overall claim is sound. Specifically, I do not doubt]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:31:26 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Collett]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of parental involvement laws, like Kim, often claim that a majority of minors consult with their parents prior to obtaining an abortion. The claim originates from a study by Stanley Henshaw and Kathryn Kost. While it is true that according to the study, 61% of minors surveyed claimed a]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_parental-notification0306.msp#Monday-Collett</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:55:37 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Mutcherson]]>: Parent-Free Abortion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons to think that the Supreme Court gets it wrong when it comes to young women and abortion rights. While an adult woman may choose an abortion based solely on consultation with her healthcare provider, the Supreme Court allows states to require young women to notify a]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:45:19 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Moller]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You've asked me to justify my views of unconstitutional conditions. For me, the key question is whether a condition is coercive enough to trigger First Amendment balancing. To my mind, your moral norms argument doesn't answer that question, it just rephrases it. When the Court revisits this issue, let me]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:11:04 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Dwyer]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we need to further unpack the contents of your last paragraph. I'm inclined to agree that the government "isn't an ordinary market participant" when it conditions funding. But how, exactly? Is it becauseand#0151;due to the power to taxand#0151;government is many orders of magnitude wealthier than any other conceivable]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:04:20 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Moller]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angus, Cato's elevators are notoriously unreliable. I use the stairs. We'd never think of barring inspectors.<br><br>Seriously, though, I'm not sure your hypo is on point. You seem to assume I'm arguing <i>Dale</i> protects any crazy thing a group does to send a message. I'm making a narrower point:  that]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:04:29 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Dwyer]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't want to belabor the elevator repair point, but I continue to think the analogy, while "far-out", is nevertheless apt, and is a real implication of the rather expansive view of the right of expressive association you're advocating.<br> <br>It seems to me that the <i>FAIR</i> case is pretty easily]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_fair-rumsfeld0306.msp#Wednesday-Dwyer</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:55:29 PM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Moller]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angus, I'm glad you agree this case was closer than the vote suggests. But it is hard to see why you think so. Yes, <i>Dale</i> concerned a group's right to choose members. But <i>Dale</i> was also an instance of a larger constitutional principle.<br><br>Don't take my word for it. Take <i>Dale</i>'s.]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:02:07 AM</pubDate>
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		<title>Debate Club: <![CDATA[Dwyer]]>: Is FAIR v. Rumsfeld Bad For Free Speech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree with some of the points you make. First, I'm certainly not one of the FAIR opponents who found its arguments "laughably frivolous". I thought they were wrong, of course, and that the government had the more compelling argument based on the precedents, but I'll happily concede that the]]></description>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moller and Angus Dwyer debate.]]></dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:39:44 PM</pubDate>
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