This series is a general repository of manuscripts and articles demonstrating the strength and breadth of the legal scholarship and cross-disciplinary studies at Penn Law.

Submissions from 2010

The Modern Irrationalities of American Criminal Codes: An Empirical Study of Offense Grading, Paul H. Robinson, Thomas Gaeta, Matthew Majarian, Megan Schultz, and Douglas M. Weck

Justice & Deterrence in International Law: Improper Limitations on Responses to Unlawful Aggression, Paul H. Robinson and Adil Ahmad Haque

Submissions from 2009

Did TRIPS Spur Innovation? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Duration and Incentives to Innovate, David S. Abrams

Future Generations: A Prioritarian View, Matthew D. Adler

Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition, Matthew D. Adler

Women’s Unequal Citizenship at the Border: Lessons from Three Nonfiction Films about the Women of Juárez, Regina Austin

Bankruptcy or Bailouts?, Kenneth M. Ayotte and David A. Skeel Jr.

The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation, Aditi Bagchi

Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Medical Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein, Tom Baker and Timothy D. Lytton

Enticing Low Risks into the Health Insurance Pool: Tontines for the Invincibles, An Idea from Insurance History and Behavioral Economics, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman

Restoration But Also More Justice, Stephanos Bibas

Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance, Stephanos Bibas

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, Stephanos Bibas and William W. Burke-White

On the Study of Judicial Behaviors: Of Law, Politics, Science and Humility, Stephen B. Burbank

Pleading and the Dilemmas of “General Rules”, Stephen B. Burbank

Private Litigation in a Public Law Sphere:The Standard of Review in Investor-State Arbitrations, William W. Burke-White and Andreas von Staden

Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market, Howard F. Chang

The Transparency President? The Obama Administration and Open Government, Cary Coglianese

Nonrivalry and Price Discrimination in Copyright Economics, John P. Conley and Christopher S. Yoo

Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy, and Politics on the Slippery Slopes, Eric Feldman and Alison I. Stein

Confronting the Circularity Problem in Private Securities Litigation, Jill Fisch

Top Cop or Regulatory Flop? The SEC at 75, Jill Fisch

State Finance in Times of Crisis, Brian Galle and Jonathan Klick

Does Anyone Get Stopped at the Gate? An Empirical Assessment of the Daubert Trilogy in the States, Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick

The Relation between Regulation and Class Actions: Evidence from the Insurance Industry, Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick

Problems of Equity and Efficiency in the Design of International Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Schemes, Jason S. Johnston

Reconsidering International Tax Neutrality, Michael S. Knoll

The Corporate Income Tax and the Competitiveness of U.S. Industries, Michael S. Knoll

A New E.R.A. or a New Era? Amendment Advocacy and the Reconstitution of Feminism, Serena Mayeri

Originality, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein

Reconceptualizing Trespass, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein

A System of Excuses: How Criminal Law’s Excuse Defenses Do, and Don’t, Work Together to Exculpate Blameless (And Only Blameless) Offenders, Paul H. Robinson

The Ongoing Revolution in Punishment Theory: Doing Justice as Controlling Crime, Paul H. Robinson

Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory, Paul H. Robinson; Michael T, Cahill; and Daniel M. Bartels

Report on Offense Grading in Pennsylvania, Paul H. Robinson and Criminal Law Research Group, University of Pennsylvania Law School

The Disutility of Injustice, Paul H. Robinson, Geoffrey P. Goodwin, and Michael Reisig

The Indivisible Constitution, Kermit Roosevelt

A Theory of Discipline for Professional Misconduct, Nadia N. Sawicki

Bankruptcy Boundary Games, David A. Skeel

Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience, Christopher S. Yoo

Innovations in the Internet’s Architecture that Challenge the Status Quo, Christopher S. Yoo

Network Neutrality after Comcast: Toward a Case-by-Case Approach to Reasonable Network Management, Christopher S. Yoo

Product Life Cycle Theory and the Maturation of the Internet, Christopher S. Yoo

The Convergence of Broadcasting and Telephony: Legal and Regulatory Implications, Christopher S. Yoo

Submissions from 2008

Bounded Rationality and Legal Scholarship, Matthew D. Adler

Introducing a "Different Lives" Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being, Matthew D. Adler and Paul Dolan

Confidentiality: An Expectation in Health Care, Anita L. Allen

The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science, Anita L. Allen

The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit, Anita L. Allen

Undressing Difference: the Hijab in the West, Anita L. Allen

Hate Speech, C. Edwin Baker

The First Amendment and Commercial Speech, C. Edwin Baker

Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, Tom Baker

Transparency through Insurance: Mandates Dominate Discretion, Tom Baker

Engaging Capital Emotions, Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas

The Heart Has Its Value: The Death Penalty's Justifiable Persistence, Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas

Exacerbating Injustice, Stephanos Bibas

Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies, Stephanos Bibas

Judicial Fact-Finding at Sentencing, Stephanos Bibas

Political Versus Administrative Justice, Stephanos Bibas

Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, Stephanos Bibas

Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of their Performance*, Jonathan C. Borck, Cary Coglianese, and Jennifer Nash

Evaluating the Social Effects of Environmental Leadership Programs, Jonathan C. Borck, Cary Coglianese, and Jennifer Nash

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Context: A Preliminary View, Stephen B. Burbank

The Argentine Financial Crisis: State Liability Under BITs and the Legitimacy of the ICSID System, William W. Burke-White

Shaping the Contours of Domestic Justice: The International Criminal Court and an Admissibility Challenge in the Uganda Situation, William W. Burke-White and Scott Kaplan

The Immigration Paradox: Alien Workers and Distributive Justice, Howard F. Chang

Director Elections and the Role of Proxy Advisors, Stephen Choi, Jill Fisch, and Marcel Kahan

Policymaking Under Pressure: The Perils of Incremental Responses to Climate Change, Cary Coglianese and Jocelyn D’Ambrosio

Transparency and Public Participation in the Rulemaking Process, Cary Coglianese, Heather Kilmartin, and Evan Mendelson

Government Clubs: Theory and Evidence from Voluntary Environmental Programs, Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash

The Law and Economics of Environmental Federalism: Europe and the United States Compared, Michael G. Faure and Jason S. Johnston

Cause for Concern: Causation and Federal Securities Fraud, Jill Fisch

Climate Change Confusion and the Supreme Court: the Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, Jason S. Johnston

Embattled CEOs, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock

Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bondholder Rights, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock

How to Prevent Hard Cases from Making Bad Law: Bear Stearns, Delaware and the Strategic Use of Comity, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock

Business Taxes and International Competitiveness, Michael S. Knoll

International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes, Michael S. Knoll

Samuel Zell, the Chicago Tribune, and the Emergence of the S ESOP: Understanding the Tax Advantages and Disadvantages of S ESOPs, Michael S. Knoll

Taxation and the Competitiveness of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Do Taxes Encourage Sovereign Wealth Funds to Invest in the United States?, Michael S. Knoll

The Taxation of Private Equity Carried Interests: Estimating the Revenue Effects of Taxing Profit Interests as Ordinary Income, Michael S. Knoll

The Freedom of Information Act and the Ecology of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer

Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living and Tort Law Incentives, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Michele Mathes, and Nadia N. Sawicki

Torts and Innovation, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein

Do Effective Non-lethal Weapons Make the Use of Firearms Unlawful and the Second Amendment Irrelevant?, Paul H. Robinson

Empirical Desert, Paul H. Robinson

Objective Versus Subjective Justification: A Case Study in Function and Form in Constructing a System of Criminal Law Theory, Paul H. Robinson

Shoot to Stun, Paul H. Robinson

The Difficulties of Deterrence as a Distributive Principle, Paul H. Robinson

Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World, Kermit Roosevelt III

Polyphonic Stare Decisis: Listening to non-Article III Actors, Kermit Roosevelt

Health Law’s Coherence Anxiety, Theodore Ruger

Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Statutes, Nadia N. Sawicki

Governance in the Ruins, David A. Skeel Jr.

The Paths of Christian Legal Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr.

The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr.

Rethinking Broadband Internet Access, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo

Toward a Unified Theory of Access to Local Telephone Systems, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo

Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure, Amy L. Wax