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The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) attempts to steer debtors away from chapter 7 and into chapter 13 plans in which they will have to…

For decades, U.S. refugee law has restricted women's access to protection. To qualify as a refugee, a person must have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion,…

The justice of the peace courts serve a significant function in the Arizona judicial system. They process approximately 34% of all cases filed each year in the Arizona court system…

Steven Sondheim once wrote a musical called *Merrily We Roll Along*, which starts at the end and goes to the beginning. I am going to start my talk today by…

Prediction markets have been proposed for a variety of public policy purposes, but no one has considered their application in perhaps the most obvious policy area: crime. This Article proposes…

The market mechanisms proposed in *Predicting Crime* offer many virtues. The authors describe several of these---unbiased information collection; incentives that encourage disclosure; opinions weighted by conviction; information aggregation; instantaneous and…