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PAPERS FROM 2007
Howard F. Chang and Hilary A. Sigman (May 22, 2007) The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields
Jonathan C. Lipson (May 19, 2007) The Expressive Function of Directors’ Duties to Creditors
Jonathan C. Lipson (May 16, 2007) Where's The Beef: A Few Words about Paying for Performance in Bankruptcy
Jonathan C. Lipson (May 15, 2007) Debt and Democracy: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Bankruptcy
Howard F. Chang (May 14, 2007) The Economics of International Labor Migration and the Case for Global Distributive Justice in Liberal Political Theory
Howard F. Chang (May 2, 2007) Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation
Howard F. Chang (May 2, 2007) The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications
William W. Burke-White and Andreas von Staden (April 25, 2007) Investment Protection in Extraordinary Times: The Interpretation and Application of Non-Precluded Measures Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties
Paul H. Robinson and Adnan Zulfiqar (April 25, 2007) Of Neocolonialism, Common Law and Uncodifiable Shari’a: A Reply to Professor An-Na’im
Stuart Shapiro and Cary Coglianese (April 11, 2007) First Generation E-Rulemaking: An Assessment of Regulatory Agency Websites
Paul H. Robinson (April 1, 2007) The Role of Moral Philosophers in the Competition Between Deontological and Empirical Desert
Matthew D. Adler (March 31, 2007) Risk Equity: A New Proposal
Cary Coglianese (March 28, 2007) Legitimacy and Corporate Governance
Stephen Morse (March 28, 2007) The Non-Problem of Free Will in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley (March 22, 2007) Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy
Eric Feldman (March 19, 2007) Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan
Paul H. Robinson (March 9, 2007) Justification Defenses in Situations of Unavoidable Uncertainty: A Reply to Professor Ferzan
Aditi Bagchi (March 8, 2007) The Accidental Promise: Remaking the Law of Misrepresented Intent
Aditi Bagchi (March 8, 2007) Varieties of Employee Ownership: Some Unintended Consequences of Corporate Law and Labor Law
Lawrence A. Hamermesh and Michael L. Wachter (February 27, 2007) The Short and Puzzling Life of the “Implicit Minority Discount” in Delaware Appraisal Law
William W. Burke-White (February 14, 2007) Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice
Stephen Morse and Morris B. Hoffman (February 12, 2007) The Uneasy Entente Between Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona
Cary Coglianese (February 6, 2007) Weak Democracy, Strong Information: The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process
Chris William Sanchirico (February 5, 2007) Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity
Chris William Sanchirico (February 1, 2007) A Primary Activity Approach to Proof Burdens
C. Edwin Baker (January 29, 2007) The Independent Significance of the Press Clause under Existing Law
Paul H. Robinson (January 9, 2007) How Psychology is Changing the Punishment Theory Debate
PAPERS FROM 2006
Paul H. Robinson and Markus D. Dubber (December 21, 2006) The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview
Paul H. Robinson, Robert O. Kurzban, and Owen D. Jones (December 18, 2006) The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice
Michael S. Knoll (December 14, 2006) Compaq Redux: Implicit Taxes and the Question of Pre-tax Profit
Michael S. Knoll (December 14, 2006) Taxes and Competitiveness
Eric Feldman (December 11, 2006) Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan
Seth F. Kreimer (November 21, 2006) Censorship by Proxy: the First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, and the Problem of the Weakest Link
Paul Robinson, Adnan Zulfiqar, Margaret Kammerud, Michael Orchowski, Elizabeth A. Gerlach, Adam L. Pollock, Thomas M. O'Brien, John C. Lin, Tom Stenson, Negar Katirai, J. John Lee, and Marc Aaron Melzer (November 3, 2006) Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & the Freedom to Invent New Forms
Matthew D. Adler (November 2, 2006) Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis
Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas (October 24, 2006) Making Sentencing Sensible
Lee Petherbridge and R. Polk Wagner (October 16, 2006) The Federal Circuit and Patentability: An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness
Bridget J. Crawford (October 13, 2006) Tax Practice in a Circular Revolution: A Review of PLI's Circular 230 Deskbook
Paul H. Robinson and Robert O. Kurzban (September 21, 2006) Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice
Frank Partnoy and David A. Skeel Jr. (September 11, 2006) The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives
Michael L. Wachter (August 28, 2006) Labor Unions: A Corporatist Institution in a Competitive World
Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman, and Steven Thel (August 23, 2006) Of Equal Wrongs and Half Rights
Paul H. Robinson (August 17, 2006) Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical
Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville, Jennifer Nash, and Cary Coglianese (August 10, 2006) Constructing the License to Operate: Internal Factors and their Influence on Corporate Environmental Decisions
Stephen B. Burbank (August 3, 2006) Judicial Independence, Judicial Accountability and Interbranch Relations
David A. Skeel Jr. (August 2, 2006) The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Stephen B. Burbank (July 31, 2006) Federalism and Private International Law: Implementing the Hague Choice of Court Convention in the United States
Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock (July 21, 2006) Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
Regina Austin (July 11, 2006) The Next "New Wave": Law Genre Documentaries, Lawyering in Support of the Creative Process, and Visual Legal Advocacy
Nathaniel Persily (June 25, 2006)  The Place of Competition in American Election Law, in the Marketplace of Democracy
Nathaniel Persily (April 29, 2006) Gay Marriage, Public Opinion and the Courts
Eric Feldman (April 18, 2006) The Culture of Legal Change: A Case Study of Tobacco Control in Twenty-First Century Japan
Stephen Morse (April 13, 2006) Brain Overclaim Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility: A Diagnostic Note
Matthew D. Adler (April 1, 2006) Constitutional Fidelity, The Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn In Contemporary Positivism
Matthew D. Adler and Chris William Sanchirico (February 25, 2006) Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications
Matthew D. Adler (February 14, 2006) Welfare Polls: A Synthesis
Leo Katz (January 13, 2006) Choice, Consent, and Cycling: The Hidden Limitations of Consent
PAPERS FROM 2005
Matthew D. Adler (December 16, 2005)  QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective
Matthew D. Adler (December 13, 2005) Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy
Stephanos Bibas (November 30, 2005) Transparency and Participation in Criminal Procedure
David A. Skeel Jr. and William J. Stuntz (November 23, 2005) Christianity and the (Modest) Rule of Law
R. Polk Wagner (November 12, 2005) The Perfect Storm: Intellectual Property and Public Values
Jason S. Johnston (November 1, 2005) Tradable Pollution Permits and the Regulatory Game
Kristin Madison (October 10, 2005) The Residency Match: Competitive Restraints in an Imperfect World
Edward B. Rock (October 10, 2005) The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma
Chris William Sanchirico (October 1, 2005) Detection Avoidance
Jason S. Johnston (October 1, 2005) The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory of How Standard Form Contracts Negotiation between Businesses and Consumers
Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky (September 16, 2005) Bargaining for Takings Compensation
Richard E. Kihlstrom and Michael L. Wachter (September 1, 2005) Corporate Policy and the Coherence of Delaware Takeover Law
Michael S. Knoll (August 31, 2005) Restricted Stock and the Section 83(b) Election: A Joint Tax Perspective
Stephanos Bibas (August 2, 2005) Regulating Local Variations in Federal Sentencing
Eric Feldman (August 1, 2005) The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World's Premier Fish Market
Jason S. Johnston (August 1, 2005) The Promise and Limits of Voluntary Management - Based Regulatory Reform: An Analysis of EPA's Strategic Goals Program
Stephanos Bibas (July 29, 2005) Originalism and Formalism in Criminal Procedure: The Triumph of Justice Scalia, the Unlikely Friend of Criminal Defendants?
Stephanos Bibas (July 29, 2005) The Story of Brady v. Maryland: From Adversarial Gameship Toward the Search for Innocence?
Lawrence Hamermesh and Michael L. Wachter (July 18, 2005) The Fair Value of Cornfields in Delaware Appraisal Law
Richard E. Kihlstrom and Michael L. Wachter (July 1, 2005) Why Defer to Managers? A Strong - Form Efficiency Model
Michael L. Wachter (June 24, 2005) Theories of the Employment Relationship: Choosing between Norms and Contracts
Nathaniel Persily (June 7, 2005) When Judges Carve Democracies: A Primer on Court-Drawn Redistricting Plans
Michael S. Knoll (May 31, 2005) The Calculation of Prejudgment Interest
Jason S. Johnston (May 11, 2005) Signaling Social Responsibility: On the Law and Economics of Market Incentives for Corporate Environmental Performance
Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky (April 25, 2005) Of Property and Federalism
Polk Wagner (April 10, 2005) Exactly Backwards: Exceptionalism and the Federal Circuit
Sean J. Griffith (March 24, 2005) Unleashing a Gatekeeper: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Details Concerning Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance Policies
Edward L. Rubin (March 12, 2005) Dangerous Clients: A Phenomenological Solution to Bureaucratic Oppression
Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash (March 8, 2005) Management-Based Strategies for Improving Private Sector Environmental Performance
Nathaniel Persily and Melissa Cully Anderson (February 1, 2005) Regulating Democracy Through Democracy: The Use of Direct Legislation in Election Law Reform
Chris William Sanchirico (February 1, 2005) Harnessing Adversarial Process: Optimal Strategic Complementarities in Litigation
Alan Lerner (January 12, 2005) Using our Brains: What Cognitive Science and Social Psychology Teach us About Teaching Law Students to Make Ethical, Professionally Responsible, Choices
Jason S. Johnston (January 1, 2005) The Rule of Capture and the Economic Dynamics of Natural Resource Use and Survival under Open Access Management Regimes
PAPERS FROM 2004
David A. Skeel Jr. (December 1, 2004) Icarus in the Boardroom, Introduction
Lori Snyder Bennear and Cary Coglianese (November 1, 2004) Evaluating Environmental Policies
Cary Coglianese (November 1, 2004) The Internet and Citizen Participation in Rulemaking
Kim Lane Scheppele (October 1, 2004) Law in a Time of Emergency
Kim Lane Scheppele (October 1, 2004) Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction
Kim Lane Scheppele (October 1, 2004) Other People's PATRIOT Acts: Europe's Response to September 11
Chris William Sanchirico and George G. Triantis (September 13, 2004) Evidentiary Arbitrage: The Fabrication of Evidence and the Verifiability of Contract Performance
Kim Lane Scheppele (September 1, 2004) A Realpolitik Defense of Social Rights
Matthew D. Adler (September 1, 2004) Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?
Polk Wagner (August 25, 2004) On Software Regulation
Gideon Parchomovsky and R. Polk Wagner (August 22, 2004) Patent Portfolios
Paul G. Mahoney and Chris William Sanchirico (July 16, 2004) General and Specific Legal Rules
Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock (June 30, 2004) Our Corporate Federalism and the Shape of Corporate Law
Oren Bar-Gill and Gideon Parchomovsky (June 24, 2004) Intellectual Property Law and the Boundaries of the Firm
Nathaniel Persily and Kelli Lammie (June 14, 2004) Perceptions of Corruption and Campaign Finance: When Public Opinion Determines Constitutional Law
Michael Knoll (June 8, 2004) The Ancient Roots of Modern Financial Innovation: The Early History of Regulatory Arbitrage
Chris William Sanchirico (June 1, 2004) Evidence, Procedure, and the Upside of Cognitive Error
Paul Robinson (June 1, 2004) Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioral Science Investigation
Albert H. Choi and Chris William Sanchirico (May 20, 2004) Should Plaintiffs Win What Defendants Lose?: Litigation Stakes, Litigation Effort, and the Benefits of 'Decoupling'
Cary Coglianese, Richard Zeckhauser, and Edward A. Parson (May 12, 2004) Seeking Truth for Power: Informational Strategy and Regulatory Policy Making
Michael S. Knoll (March 22, 2004) The Tax Efficiency of Stock-Based Compensation
Geoffrey Hazard and Edward B. Rock (March 19, 2004) A New Player in the Boardroom: The Emergence of the Independent Directors' Counsel
Peter H. Huang (March 18, 2004) Moody Investing and the Supreme Court: Rethinking the Materiality of Information and the Reasonableness of Investors
Geoffrey Hazard and Edward B. Rock (March 1, 2004) A New Player in the Boardroom: The Emergence of the Independent Directors' Counsel
Polk Wagner and Lee Petherbridge (March 1, 2004) Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance
Paul Robinson (March 1, 2004) Criminal Justice in the Information Age
Chris William Sanchirico (February 27, 2004) Evidence Tampering
Cary Coglianese (February 20, 2004) E-Rulemaking: Information Technology and the Regulatory Process
Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky (February 1, 2004) What Property Is
Matthew D. Adler (January 1, 2004) Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment
PAPERS FROM 2003
Amy L. Wax (December 10, 2003) Social Welfare, Human Dignity, and the Puzzle of What We Owe Each Other
Peter H. Huang (December 3, 2003) Regulating Irrational Exuberance and Anxiety in Securities Markets
Peter H. Huang (December 3, 2003) Lawsuit Abandonment Options in Possibly Frivolous Litigation Games
Chris William Sanchirico (December 1, 2003) Finding Error
Matthew D. Adler (November 19, 2003) Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety
Cary Coglianese and Laurie K. Allen (September 1, 2003) Building Sector-Based Consensus: A Review of the EPA's Common Sense Initiative
Howard F. Chang (August 6, 2003) Risk Regulation, Endogenous Public Concerns, and the Hormones Dispute: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself?
Charles W. Mooney Jr. (June 22, 2003) A Normative Theory of Bankruptcy Law: Bankruptcy as (is) Civil Procedure
Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock (June 13, 2003) Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions as Pre-Commitment
Kenneth M. Ayotte and David A. Skeel Jr. (May 21, 2003) Why Do Distressed Companies Choose Delaware? An Empirical Analysis of Venue Choice in Bankruptcy
Gideon Parchomovsky and Peter Siegelman (May 12, 2003) Selling Mayberry: Communities and Individuals in Law and Economics
Michael L. Wachter (May 12, 2003) Judging Unions' Future Using a Historical Perspective: The Public Policy Choice Between Competition and Unionization
Oren Bar-Gill and Gideon Parchomovsky (May 6, 2003) The Value of Giving Away Secrets
Matthew D. Adler (April 28, 2003) Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation
Paul Robinson (April 25, 2003) The A.L.I.'s Proposed Distributive Principle of 'Limiting Retributivism': Does It Mean In Practice Anything Other Than Pure Desert?
David A. Skeel Jr. (March 28, 2003) Creditors' Ball: The 'New' New Corporate Governance in Chapter 11
Howard F. Chang (February 28, 2003) The Immigration Paradox: Poverty, Distributive Justice, and Liberal Egalitarianism
C. Edwin Baker (January 31, 2003) Genocide, Press Freedom, and the Case of Hassan Ngeze
Paul Robinson (January 15, 2003) Prohibited Risks and Culpable Disregard or Inattentiveness: Challenge and Confusion in the Formulation of Risk-Creation Offenses
Paul Robinson (January 7, 2003) The Role of Deterrence in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules: At Its Worst When Doing Its Best
Paul Robinson and Michael T. Cahill (January 1, 2003) Can a Model Penal Code Second Save the States from Themselves?
PAPERS FROM 2002
Amy L. Wax (November 27, 2002) Disability, Reciprocity, and 'Real Efficiency': A Unified Approach
Howard F. Chang (November 1, 2002) Immigration Restrictions as Employment Discrimination
Paul Robinson (May 6, 2002) Should the Victims' Rights Movement Have Influence Over Criminal Law Formulation and Adjudication?
Paul Robinson (April 26, 2002) The Virtues of Restorative Processes, The Vices of "Restorative Justice"
PAPERS FROM 2001
Paul Robinson, John M. Darley, and Kevin M. Carlsmith (June 28, 2001) Ex Ante Function of the Criminal Law
Paul Robinson (March 1, 2001) Punishing Dangerousness: Cloaking Preventative Detention as Criminal Justice
Paul Robinson (January 1, 2001) Criminal Law Scholarship: Three Illusions
PAPERS FROM 2000
Paul Robinson (September 7, 2000) Crime, Punishment and Prevention
Paul Robinson (May 1, 2000) Testing Lay Intuitions of Justice: How and Why?
Paul Robinson (May 1, 2000) Some Doubts About Argument by Hypothetical
Paul Robinson, Michael T. Cahill, and Usman Mohammad (January 1, 2000) The Five Worst (and Five Best) American Criminal Codes
Paul Robinson (January 1, 2000) Why Does The Criminal Law Care What The Lay Persons Thinks Is Just? Coercive Versus Normative Crime Control
PAPERS FROM 1999
Paul Robinson (August 19, 1999) Mens Rea
PAPERS FROM 1997
RONALD I. MILLER and Chris William Sanchirico (November 11, 1997) Almost Everybody Disagrees Almost All the Time: The Genericity of Weakly Merging Nowhere


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