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 2012
Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
A Dialogue on the Costs and Benefits of Automatic Stays for Derivatives and Repurchase Agreements, Darrell Duffie and David A. Skeel Jr.
Natural Law & Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors, Paul H. Robinson
Four Distinctions That Glanville Williams Did Not Make: The Practical Benefits of Examining the Interrelation Among Criminal Law Doctrines, Paul H. Robinson
Hauerwasian Christian Legal Theory, David A. Skeel Jr.
Submissions from 2011
Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, David S. Abrams
Priority Rules: An Empirical Exploration of First-to-Invent Versus First-to-File, David S. Abrams and R. Polk Wagner
Harsanyi 2.0, Matthew D. Adler
Managing Moral Risk: The Case of Contract, Aditi Bagchi
Who Should Talk? What Counts as Employee Voice and Who Stands to Gain, Aditi Bagchi
Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Tom Baker
The Shifting Terrain of Risk and Uncertainty on the Liability Insurance Field, Tom Baker
The Law and Economics of Liability Insurance: A Theoretical and Empirical Review, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, Benjamin H. Barton and Stephanos Bibas
Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection, Stephanos Bibas
Perceptions of Fairness and Justice: The Shared Aims & Occasional Conflicts of Legitimacy and Moral Credibility, Josh Bowers and Paul H. Robinson
Private Enforcement of Statutory and Administrative Law in the United States (and Other Common Law Countries), Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang, and Herbert M. Kritzer
Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect, William W. Burke-White
Voting Through Agents: How Mutual Funds Vote on Director Elections, Stephen J. Choi, Jill Fisch, and Marcel Kahan
The Triumph and Tragedy of Tobacco Control: A Tale of Nine Nations, Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer
A Cost-Benefit Interpretation of the "Substantially Similar" Hurdle in the Congressional Review Act: Can OSHA Ever Utter the E-Word (Ergonomics) Again?, Adam M. Finkel and Jason W. Sullivan
A Floating NAV for Money Market Funds: Fix or Fantasy?, Jill Fisch and Eric D. Roiter
Rights-Based Theories of Accident Law, Gregory J. Hall
When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder, Marcel Kahan and Edward B. Rock
Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz, Michael Klarman, David A. Skeel Jr., and Carol Steiker
“Impact” in 3D—Maximizing Impact Through Transactional Clinics, Praveen Kosuri
Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record, Seth F. Kreimer
Are Institutions and Empiricism Enough? A Review of Allen Buchanan, Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force, Matthew J. Lister
The Story of Frontiero v. Richardson, Serena Mayeri
Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, Stephen J. Morse
Genetics and criminal responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Mental Disorder and Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse
[A Brief Comparative Summary of the Criminal Law of the] United States, Paul H. Robinson
Mercy, Crime Control & Moral Credibility, Paul H. Robinson
Comments on [Israeli] Proposal for Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing, Paul H. Robinson
Advantaging Aggressors: Justice & Deterrence in International Law, Paul H. Robinson and Adil Ahmad Haque
Extralegal Punishment Factors: A Study of Forgiveness, Hardship, Good-Deeds, Apology, Remorse, and Other Such Discretionary Factors in Assessing Criminal Punishment, Paul H. Robinson, Sean Jackowitz, and Daniel M. Bartels
Report on Offense Grading In New Jersey, Paul H. Robinson, Rebecca Levenson, Nicholas Feltham, Andrew Sperl, Kristen-Elise Brooks, Agatha Koprowski, Jessica Peake, Benjamin Probber, and Brian Trainor
Shareholder Eugenics in the Public Corporation, Edward B. Rock
Making Sense of the New Financial Deal, David A. Skeel Jr.
State Bankruptcy from the Ground Up, David A. Skeel Jr.
States of Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel Jr.
Inside-Out Corporate Governance, David A. Skeel Jr., Vijit Chahar, Alexander Clark, Mia Howard, Bijun Huang, Federico Lasconi, A.G. Leventhal, Matthew Makover, Randi Milgrim, David Payne, Romy Rahme, Nikki Sachdeva, and Zachary Scott
Transaction Consistency and the New Finance in Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel and Thomas Jackson
The Mosaic Law in Christian Perspective, David A. Skeel Jr. and Tremper Longman
Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, James H. Stark and Douglas N. Frenkel
Perpetuating the Marginalization of Latinos: A Collateral Consequence of the Incorporation of Immigration Law into the Criminal Justice System, Yolanda Vazquez
Disparate Impact Realism, Amy L. Wax
Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications, Christopher S. Yoo
Submissions from 2010
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?, David S. Abrams, Marianne Bertrand, and Sendhil Mullainathan
Contingent Valuation Studies and Health Policy, Matthew D. Adler
Veiled Women in the American Courtroom: Is the Niqab a Barrier to Justice?, Anita Allen
Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies for LGBT Plaintiffs, Anita L. Allen
Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should Be Made of Victim Impact Videos?, Regina Austin
Unequal Promises, Aditi Bagchi
Insurance in Sociolegal Research, Tom Baker
Tontines for the Invincibles: Enticing Low Risks Into the Health-Insurance Pool With an Idea from Insurance History and Behavioral Economics, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
The Pragmatic Incrementalism of Common Law Intellectual Property, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Litigation and Democracy: Restoring a Realistic Prospect of Trial, Stephen B. Burbank and Stephen N. Subrin
Redeeming the Missed Opportunities of Shady Grove, Stephen B. Burbank and Tobias Barrington Wolff
An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability, Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman
The Power of Proxy Advisors: Myth or Reality?, Stephen Choi, Jill Fisch, and Marcel Kahan
Rethinking the Regulation of Securities Intermediaries, Jill Fisch
Securities Intermediaries and the Separation of Ownership from Control, Jill Fisch
The Destructive Ambiguity of Federal Proxy Access, Jill Fisch
Global Warming Advocacy Science: a Cross Examination, Jason S. Johnston
Clinical Legal Education at a Generational Crossroads: X Marks the Spot, Praveen Kosuri
Can Liberal Religion Ground Moral Imperatives?, Howard Lesnick
Citizenship, in the Immigration Context, Matthew Lister
Immigration, Association, and the Family, Matthew Lister
The Legitimating Role of Consent in International Law, Matthew J. Lister
Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse
The Distortionary Effect of Evidence on Primary Behavior, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Abnormal Mental State Mitigations of Murder – The U.S. Perspective, Paul H. Robinson
"Life Without Parole" Under Modern Theories of Punishment, 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
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
The Disutility of Injustice, Paul H. Robinson, Geoffrey P. Goodwin, and Michael Reisig
Realism, Punishment & Reform [A Reply to Braman, Kahan, and Hoffman, "Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism”], Paul H. Robinson, Owen D. Jones, and Robert O. Kurzban
Choice of Law in Federal Courts: From Erie and Klaxon to CAFA and Shady Grove, Kermit Roosevelt III
Does It Hurt a State To Introduce an Income Tax?, David J. Shakow
The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets with Imperfect Enforcement, Hilary A. Sigman and Howard F. Chang
Bankruptcy Phobia, David A. Skeel
The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences, David A. Skeel Jr.
Diverging family structure and “rational” behavior: The decline in marriage as a disorder of choice, Amy L. Wax
Innovations in the Internet’s Architecture that Challenge the Status Quo, Christopher S. Yoo
Is the Internet a Maturing Market? If So, What Does That Imply?, Christopher S. Yoo
Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation?, Christopher S. Yoo
Presidential Power in Historical Perspective: Reflections' on Calabresi and Yoo's The Unitary Executive, Christopher S. Yoo
The Changing Patterns of Internet Usage, Christopher S. Yoo
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
Regulatory Theory, 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.
Intention, Torture, and the Concept of State Crime, Aditi Bagchi
The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation, Aditi Bagchi