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 2013
An Ethical Duty to Protect One’s Own Information Privacy?, Anita L. Allen
Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, Kenneth M. Ayotte and David A. Skeel Jr.
Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products: New Lessons for Insurance Regulation from Behavioral Economics, Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
Regulation by Liability Insurance: From Auto to Lawyers Professional Liability, Tom Baker and Rick Swedloff
Copyright Infringement Markets, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Gandhi and Copyright Pragmatism, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Economic and Legal Arguments in PPL v. Commissioner, Michael S. Knoll
The Reality of Moral Imperatives in Liberal Religion, Howard Lesnick
The Environmental Option, Gideon Parchomovsky and Endre Stavang
Intellectual Property Defenses, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Four Distinctions That Glanville Williams Did Not Make: The Practical Benefits of Examining the Interrelation Among Criminal Law Doctrines, Paul H. Robinson
Institutional Choice in an Economic Crisis, David A. Skeel Jr.
Is Bankruptcy the Answer for Troubled Cities and States?, David A. Skeel Jr.
Submissions from 2012
Poisoning the Next Apple? How the America Invents Act Harms Inventors, David S. Abrams and R. Polk Wagner
Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What’s the Use?, Matthew D. Adler
Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach, Matthew D. Adler, James K. Hammitt, and Nicholas Treich
Natural Law, Slavery, and the Right to Privacy Tort, Anita Allen
Parallel Contract, Aditi Bagchi
The Uneasy Case Against Copyright Trolls, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, Benjamin H. Barton and Stephanos Bibas
Property Lost in Translation, Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky
The Machinery of Criminal Justice, Stephanos Bibas
A Tea Party at The Hague?, Stephen B. Burbank
Whose Regulatory Interests? Outsourcing the Treaty Function, Stephen B. Burbank
Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Judges Make, What Influences Those Choices, and Their Consequences, Stephen B. Burbank, S. Jay Plager, and Gregory Ablavsky
Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies, Howard F. Chang, Hilary Sigman, and Leah G. Traub
A Dialogue on the Costs and Benefits of Automatic Stays for Derivatives and Repurchase Agreements, Darrell Duffie and David A. Skeel Jr.
Regulation FD: An Alternative Approach to Addressing Information Asymmetry, Jill Fisch
The Destructive Ambiguity of Federal Proxy Access, Jill Fisch
The Trouble with Basic: Price Distortion after Halliburton, Jill E. Fisch
The Long Road Back: Business Roundtable and the Future of SEC Rulemaking, Jill E. Fisch
Dynamic Resolution of Large Financial Institutions, Thomas H. Jackson and David A. Skeel
Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link, Jonathan Klick, John MacDonald, and Thomas Stratmann
The Effect of Any Willing Provider and Freedom of Choice Laws on Health Care Expenditures, Jonathan Klick and Joshua D. Wright
The Connection Between Competitiveness and International Taxation, Michael S. Knoll
Losing My Religion: The Place of Social Justice in Clinical Legal Education, Praveen Kosuri
The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime, John M. MacDonald, Jonathan Klick, and Ben Grunwald
What Is Tax Discrimination?, Ruth Mason and Michael S. Knoll
Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements and Amounts: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Federal Securities Class Action Lawsuits, Blakeley B. McShane, Oliver P. Watson, Tom Baker, and Sean J. Griffith
New Therapies, Old Problems, or, A Plea for Neuromodesty, Stephen J. Morse
The Relational Contingency of Rights, Gideon Parchomovsky and Alex Stein
Political Authority and Political Obligation, Stephen R. Perry
Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Social Context of Oncofertility, Dorothy E. Roberts
"Life Without Parole" Under Modern Theories of Punishment, Paul H. Robinson
Natural Law & Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors, Paul H. Robinson
The Proper Role of the Community in Determining Criminal Liability and Punishment, Paul H. Robinson
Shareholder Eugenics in the Public Corporation, Edward B. Rock
Reconstruction and Resistance, Kermit Roosevelt III
Valid Rule Due Process Challenges: Bond v. United States and Erie’s Constitutional Source, Kermit Roosevelt III
A Concrete Shoe for Brand X?, David J. Shakow
Who’s Afraid of the APA?, David J. Shakow
Hauerwasian Christian Legal Theory, David A. Skeel Jr.
States of Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel Jr.
An Experiment on Mutual Fund Fees in Retirement Investing, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and Jill E. Fisch
Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision, Ryan C. Williams
Collegiality and Individual Dignity, Tobias Barrington Wolff
Copyright and Personhood Revisited, Christopher S. Yoo
Network Neutrality and the Need for a Technological Turn in Internet Scholarship, Christopher S. Yoo
The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses Are Transforming the Network, Christopher S. Yoo
When Antitrust Met Facebook, Christopher S. Yoo
Submissions from 2011
Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, David S. Abrams
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
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
Are Those Who Ignore History Doomed to Repeat It?, Peter Decherney, Nathan Ensmenger, and Christopher S. Yoo
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA): Public Policy and Medical Practice in the Age of Personalized Medicine, Eric A. Feldman
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
Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Protecting Liberty and Autonomy: Desert/Disease Jurisprudence, Stephen J. Morse
Severe Environmental Deprivation (aka RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense, Stephen J. Morse
Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, and the New Biopolitics of Race, Dorothy E. Roberts
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, Dorothy E. Roberts
What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?, Dorothy E. Roberts
[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