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 2011
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
What If Slaughter-House Had Been Decided Differently?, Kermit Roosevelt III
Making Sense of the New Financial Deal, David A. Skeel Jr.
State Bankruptcy from the Ground Up, 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
Realizing Padilla's Promise: Ensuring Noncitizen Defendants are Advised of the Immigration Consequences of a Criminal Conviction, Yolanda Vazquez
Disparate Impact Realism, Amy L. Wax
Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications, Christopher S. Yoo
Deregulation vs. Reregulation of Telecommunications: A Clash of Regulatory Paradigms, Christopher S. Yoo
Introduction, in CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, Christopher S. Yoo
Technologies of Control and the Future of the First Amendment, 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
Global Warming Advocacy Science: a Cross Examination, Jason S. Johnston
Clinical Legal Education at a Generational Crossroads: X Marks the Spot, Praveen Kosuri
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
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
Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Medical Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein, Tom Baker and Timothy D. Lytton
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
Consumer Protection in an Era of Globalization, Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and David T. Zaring
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
Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Changing Norms & Rape Reform, Paul H. Robinson
The Ongoing Revolution in Punishment Theory: Doing Justice as Controlling Crime, Paul H. Robinson
Report on Offense Grading in Pennsylvania, Paul H. Robinson and Criminal Law Research Group, University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Indivisible Constitution, Kermit Roosevelt
A Theory of Discipline for Professional Misconduct, Nadia N. Sawicki
Bankruptcy Boundary Games, David A. Skeel
Competing Narratives in Corporate Bankruptcy: Debtor in Control vs. No Time To Spare, David A. Skeel Jr.
Stereotype Threat: a Case of Overclaim Syndrome?, Amy L. Wax
Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience, 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