Articles written by faculty and other members of the University of Chicago Law School community. Links to full-text are provided when available.
Submissions from 2013
Mock Trials and Real Justices and Judges, Richard A. Posner
The Supreme Court and Celebrity Culture, Richard A. Posner
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?, Richard A. Posner
How Business Fares in the Supreme Court, Richard A. Posner, Lee Epstein, and William M. Landes
Introduction, Richard A. Posner, Eric A. Posner, and Adam B. Cox
Improvidently Granted: Why the En Banc Federal Circuit Chose the Wrong Claim Construction Issue, Greg Reilly
Public-Private Partnerships and Termination for Convenience Clauses: Time for a Mandate, Julie Roin
Copyright in Teams, Andres Sawicki and Anthony Casey
Our Electoral Exceptionalism, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The South After Shelby County, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Behavior of Supreme Court Justices When Their Behavior Counts the Most: An Informal Study, Geoffrey R. Stone
Toward a Positive Theory of Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
Book Review (reviewing Jack M. Balkin, Living Originalism (2011)), David A. Strauss
Commerce Clause Revisionism and the Affordable Care Act, David A. Strauss
Not Unwritten, After All? (reviewing Akhil Reed Amar, America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012)), David A. Strauss
'Recognizing Race' and the Elusive Ideal of Racial Neutrality, David A. Strauss
We the People, They the People, and the Puzzle of Democratic Constitutionalism, David A. Strauss
Designing Subsidies for Low-Carbon Energy, David A. Weisbach
Is Knowledge Of The Tax Law Socially Desirable?, David A. Weisbach
Unilateral Carbon Taxes, Border Tax Adjustments, and Carbon Leakage, David A. Weisbach, Joshua Elliott, Ian Foster, and Sam Kortum
International Paretianism: A Defense, David A. Weisbach and Eric A. Posner
Is It Time to Abolish the Federal Circuit's Exclusive Jurisdiction in Patent Cases?, Diane P. Wood
State Aid Management in the United States, Diane P. Wood
Submissions from 2012
One Voice or Many? The Political Question Doctrine and Acoustic Dissonance in Foreign Affairs, Daniel Abebe
Blue Collar Constitutional Law, Douglas G. Baird
Lessons from the Automobile Reorganizations, Douglas G. Baird
Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes, William Baude
Clarification Needed: Fixing the Jurisdiction Venue and Clarification Act, William Baude
Protección al Consumidor sin el Derecho, Omri Ben-Shahar
Efficient Enforcement in International Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Anu Bradford
Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard, Omri Ben-Shahar and Kyle D. Logue
Congressional Will and the Role of the Executive in Bivens Actions: What Is Special about Special Factors?, Anya Bernstein
Becoming the Fifth Branch, William A. Birdthistle and M. Todd Henderson
Attorney General Bradford’s Opinion and the Alien Tort Statute, Curtis A. Bradley
The Duke Project on Custom and Law, Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati
Historical Gloss and the Separation of Powers, Curtis A. Bradley and Trevor W. Morrison
The Gap in Law between Developmental Expectations and Educational Obligations, Emily Buss
Mind Control: Firms and the Production of Ideas, Anthony Casey
Book Review (reviewing Charles R. Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights), Adam S. Chilton
Recent Developments in Health Law: Brazil's Pregnancy Registration Requirement and International Commitments to the Rights of Women, Adam S. Chilton
Equality, Procedural Justice, and the World Trade Organization, Adam S. Chilton and Ryan W. Davis
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Low-Income Workers, and the Legal Aid Community, Adam S. Chilton, Jonathan P. Schneller, and Joshua L. Boehm
The Doctrinal Paradox & International Law, Adam S. Chilton and Dustin Tingley
Executive Foreign Policy and the States: Recent Developments, Zachary D. Clopton
Foreign Affairs Federalism and the Limits of Executive Power, Zachary D. Clopton
A Comedy of Errors or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sensibility-Invariantism about ‘Funny’, Ryan D. Doerfler
Recognizing Race, Justin Driver
The Constitutional Conservatism of the Warren Court, Justin Driver
The Significance of the Frontier in American Constitutional Law, Justin Driver
Showcase Panel IV: A Federal Sunset Law, Frank H. Easterbrook, William N. Eskridge Jr., Philip K. Howard, and Thomas W. Merrill
Dialogue with Federal Judges on the Role of History in Interpretation, Frank H. Easterbrook, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Charles F. Lettow, and Amanda L. Tyler
Judicial Engagement with the Affordable Care Act: Why Rational Basis Analysis Falls Short, Richard A. Epstein
Law in the Hands of the Politicians: The Cycles of American Politics, Richard A. Epstein
Letter to the Editor, Richard A. Epstein
Physical and Regulatory Takings: One Distinction Too Many, Richard A. Epstein
The Natural Law Bridge between Private Law and Public International Law, Richard A. Epstein
The Property Rights Decisions of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: When Pragmatic Balancing Is Not Enough, Richard A. Epstein
The Role of Accreditation Commissions in Higher Education: The Troublesome Case of Dana College, Richard A. Epstein
Unifying Copyright: An Instrumentalist's Response to Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Richard A. Epstein
The FTC, IP, and SSOS: Government Hold-up Replacing Private Coordination, Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Daniel F. Spulber
Constitutional Ratemaking and the Affordable Care Act: A New Source of Vulnerability, Richard A. Epstein and Paula M. Stannard
Lumpy Property, Lee Anne Fennell
Options for Owners and Outlaws, Lee Anne Fennell
Picturing Takings, Lee Anne Fennell
Book Review (reviewing Yves Dezalay & Bryant Garth, Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (2010)), Tom Ginsburg
Constitutionalism: East Asian Antecedents, Tom Ginsburg
Courts and Democracies: A Review Essay, Tom Ginsburg
Courts and New Democracies: Recent Works, Tom Ginsburg
Comments on Law and Versteeg's 'The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution', Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton
The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship, Tom Ginsburg and Gregory Shaffer
On the American Paradox of Laissez Faire and Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt
Political Disobedience, Bernard E. Harcourt
The Politics of Incivility, Bernard E. Harcourt
Book Review, "Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England Sam Worby", Richard H. Helmholz
Book Review (reviewing Karl Shoemaker, Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 (2011)), Richard H. Helmholz
Book Review (reviewing Sam Worby, Law And Kinship In Thirteenth-Century England (2010)), Richard H. Helmholz
Book Review (reviewing Will Adam, Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church: Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law (2011)), Richard H. Helmholz
How To Reach the Constitutional Question in the Health Care Cases, Daniel Hemel
Voice and Exit in Health Care Policy, M. Todd Henderson
Pay for Regulator Performance, M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung
Paying Bank Examiners for Performance: Should Regulators Receive Bonuses for Effectively Guarding the Public Interest?, M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung
Binding the Executive (by Law or by Politics), Aziz Huq
Enforcing (but Not Defending) Unconstitutional Laws, Aziz Huq
Forum Choice for Terrorism Suspects, Aziz Huq
Preserving Political Speech from Ourselves and Others, Aziz Huq
Structural Constitutionalism as Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq
The Institution Matching Canon, Aziz Huq
When Was Judicial Self-Restraint?, Aziz Huq
Book Review (reviewing Sandra Liebenberg, Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication Under a Transformative Constitution (2010)), Sital Kalantry and Elizabeth Brundige
Comment: State Law Claims and Article III in Stern v. Marshall, Aneil Kovval
Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction, Alison LaCroix
Historical Gloss: A Primer, Alison LaCroix
'To Regulate,' Not 'To Prohibit': Limiting the Commerce Power, Genevieve Lakier and Barry Friedman
From Page to Practice: Corporations as Progressive Actors, Genevieve Lakier and Amalea Smirniotopoulos
Was There Ever Such a Thing as Judicial Self-Restraint?, William M. Landes and Lee Epstein
In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence), Brian Leiter
Public Choice and Law's Either/Or Inclination (reviewing Leo Katz, Why the Law is So Perverse (2011)), Saul Levmore
Rethinking Ponzi-Scheme Remedies in and out of Bankruptcy, Saul Levmore
Asymmetries and Incentives in Plea Bargaining and Evidence Production, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Accounting for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the FDA Approval Process, Anup Malani, Oliver Van Der Bembom, and Mark Van Der Laan
Inflation Indicators, Jonathan Masur
Costly Intellectual Property, Jonathan Masur and David Fagundes
Regulation, Unemployment, and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Racial Disparities in Wiretap Applications before Federal Judges, Thomas J. Miles
The Law’s Delay: A Test of the Mechanisms of Judicial Peer Effects, Thomas J. Miles
Rabindranath Tagore: Subversive Songs for a Transcultural 'Religion of Humanity', Martha Craven Nussbaum
Teaching Patriotism: Love and Critical Freedom, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Who Is the Happy Warrior? Philosophy, Happiness Research, and Public Policy, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Children’s Rights and a Capabilities Approach: The Question of Special Priority, Martha Craven Nussbaum and Rosalind Dixon
Access and the Public Domain, Randal C. Picker
Private Digital Libraries and Orphan Works, Randal C. Picker
The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology, Randal C. Picker
Aggregation and Law, Ariel Porat and Eric A. Posner
Deference to the Executive in the United States after September 11: Congress, the Courts, and the Office of Legal Counsel, Eric A. Posner
Some Skeptical Comments on Beth Simmons's Mobilizing for Human Rights, Eric A. Posner
The Evolution of Contractual Terms in Sovereign Bonds, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
What Do Federal District Judges Want? An Analysis of Publications, Citations, and Reversals, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Delegation in Immigration Law, Eric A. Posner and Adam B. Cox
A Heartfelt, Albeit Largely Statistical, Salute to Judge Richard D. Cudahy, Richard A. Posner
The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner
The Romance of Force: James Fitzjames Stephen on Criminal Law, Richard A. Posner
Are Even Unanimous Decisions in the United States Supreme Court Ideological?, Richard A. Posner, William M. Landes, and Lee Epstein
Checkmate Moves (reviewing Martin J. Sweet, Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court (2010)), Gerald Rosenberg
Talk about Talking about Constitutional Law, Adam M. Samaha
Better Mistakes in Patent Law, Andres Sawicki
Mobility Measures, Naomi Schoenbaum
Title VII: A Shift from Sex to Relationships, Victoria Schwartz
A Competition Act by India, for India: The First Three Years of Enforcement Under the New Competition Act, Dorothy Shapiro Lund
Review of Co-Defendant Sentencing Disparities by the Seventh Circuit: Two Divergent Lines of Cases, Alison Siegler
Communities and the California Commission, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Forecasting the Flashpoints, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Redistricting and the Territorial Community, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Redistricting and the Territorial Community, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Spatial Diversity, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Arms and the Citizen, Geoffrey R. Stone
Citizens United and Conservative Judicial Activism, Geoffrey R. Stone
Guantanamo: ‘Whatever the Government Says . . .', Geoffrey R. Stone
Absolute Preferences and Relative Preferences in Property Law, Lior Strahilevitz
Signaling Exhaustion and Perfect Exclusion, Lior Strahilevitz
Judicial Takings or Due Process?, Lior Strahilevitz and Eduardo Peñalver
Can Originalism Be Saved?, David A. Strauss
Commerce Clause Revisionisn and the Affordable Care Act, David A. Strauss
Legitimacy, 'Constitutional Patriotism,' and the Common Law Constitution, David A. Strauss
Response and Colloquy Concerning the Papers by Jack Balkin and David Strauss, David A. Strauss
The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech, Laura Weinrib
Carbon Taxation in the EU: Expanding the EU Carbon Price, David A. Weisbach
Negligence, Strict Liability, and Responsibility for Climate Change, David A. Weisbach
Should Environmental Taxes Be Precautionary?, David A. Weisbach
Linking Policies When Tastes Differ: Global Climate Policy in a Heterogeneous World, David A. Weisbach and Gilbert E. Metcalf
Theory and Practice in Antitrust Law: Judge Cudahy's Example, Diane P. Wood
When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to Reshuffle: The Art of Decisionmaking on a Multi-Member Court, Diane P. Wood
Dialogue with Federal Judges on the Role of History in Interpretation, Diane P. Wood, Frank H. Easterbrook, Jeffrey S. Sutton, and Reena Raggi
The Hot–Cold Decision Triangle: A Framework for Healthier Choices, Haiyang Yang, Ziv Carmon, Barbara Kahn, Anup Malani, and Janet Schwartz
Submissions from 2011
The Flaws of Foreign Affairs Legalism, Daniel Abebe and Eric A. Posner
Dodd-Frank for Bankruptcy Lawyers, Douglas G. Baird and Edward Morrison
Signing Unconstitutional Laws, William Baude
On the Economics of Climate Policy, Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Robert Topel
Damages for Unlicensed Use, Omri Ben-Shahar
Fixing Unfair Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar
Licensing of Intellectual Property, Omri Ben-Shahar, Richard A. Epstein, and Jonathan Masur
The Right to Withdraw in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Eric A. Posner
The Failure of Mandated Discourse, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider
Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the State in Everyday Life, Anya Bernstein and Elizabeth Mertz
Universal Exceptionalism in International Law, Anu Bradford and Eric A. Posner
Mandatory Versus Default Rules: How Can Customary International Law Be Improved?, Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati
Presidential Power, Historical Practice, and Legal Constraint, Curtis A. Bradley and Trevor W. Morrison
Failing Juvenile Courts and What Lawyers and Judges Can Do about It, Emily Buss
Law and Child Development in the UK and the US, Emily Buss and Mavis Maclean
After Gender the Destruction of Man - The Vatican's Nightmare Vision of the 'Gender Agenda' for Law, Mary Anne Case
Enforcing Bargains in an Ongoing Marriage, Mary Anne Case
Feminist Fundamentalism as an Individual and Constitutional Commitment, Mary Anne Case
The Creditors' Bargain and Option-Preservation Priority in Chapter 11, Anthony Casey
Book Review (reviewing Beth A. Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics), Adam S. Chilton
India's Evolving Patent Laws and the WTO Obligations: The Rejection of Abbott Laboratories' Application for a New Kaletra Patent, Adam S. Chilton
Bowman Lives: The Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Criminal Law after Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Zachary D. Clopton
The Industrial Structure of Production: A Research Agenda for Innovation in an Entrepreneurial Economy, Ronald H. Coase and Ning Wang
Reconsidering Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering, Adam B. Cox and Richard T. Holden
Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice, Dhammika Dharmapala and Mihir A. Desai
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act, Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes
Tax Policy and the Missing Middle: Optimal Tax Remittance with Firm-Level Administrative Costs, Dhammika Dharmapala, Joel Slemrod, and John Douglas Wilson
Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design, Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg
The South African Constitutional Court and Socioeconomic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps', Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg
Judicial Inconsistency as Virtue: The Case of Justice Stevens, Justin Driver
Rethinking the Interest-Convergence Thesis, Justin Driver
The Consensus Constitution, Justin Driver
A New Birth of Economic Freedom (reviewing David Bernstein, Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform (2011)), Richard A. Epstein
Beware of Prods and Pleas: A Defense of the Conventional Views on Tort and Administrative Law in the Context of Global Warming, Richard A. Epstein
Branded versus Generic Competition - A Kind Word for the Branded Drugs, Richard A. Epstein
Breakdown of the Social Democratic State: Taking a Fresh Look at Waldron's Dignity, Rights, and Responsibilities, Richard A. Epstein
Bring on the Heavy Constitutional Artillery: A Brief Response to Professor Mitchell’s ‘Reconsidering Murdock’, Richard A. Epstein
Bundle-of-Rights Theory as a Bulwark Against Statist Conceptions of Property, Richard A. Epstein
Can We Design an Optimal Constitution? Of Structural Ambiguity and Rights Clarity, Richard A. Epstein
Citizens United v. FEC: The Constitutional Right That Big Corporations Should Have But Do Not Want, Richard A. Epstein
Direct Democracy: Government of the People, by the People, and for the People, Richard A. Epstein
Durbin’s Folly: The Erratic Course of Debit Card Markets, Richard A. Epstein
Government By Waiver, Richard A. Epstein
Heller's Gridlock Economy in Perspective: Why There is Too Little, Not Too Much Private Property, Richard A. Epstein
Inside the Coasean Firm: Why Variations in Competence and Taste Matter, Richard A. Epstein
Littoral Rights under the Takings Doctrine: The Clash between the IUS Naturale and Stop the Beach Renourishment The Very Idea of Judicial Takings, Richard A. Epstein
Of Pleading and Discovery: Reflections on Twombly and Iqbal with Special Reference to Antitrust, Richard A. Epstein
Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive Its Own Language?, Richard A. Epstein
The Coase Centennial, Richard A. Epstein
The Constitutionality of Proposition 8, Richard A. Epstein
The Constitutionality of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act, Richard A. Epstein
The Constitutional Paradox of the Durbin Amendment: How Monopolies are Offered Constitutional Protections Denied to Competitive Firms, Richard A. Epstein
The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009, Richard A. Epstein
The Natural Law Influences on the First Generation of American Constitutional Law: Reflections on Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty, Richard A. Epstein
The Protection of 'Hot News': Putting Balganesh’s 'Enduring Myth' About International New Service v. Associated Press in Perspective, Richard A. Epstein
Do Accounting Rules Matter? - The Dangerous Allure of Mark to Market, Richard A. Epstein and M. Todd Henderson
Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents, Richard A. Epstein and F. Scott Kieff
Are We Lifting All Boats or Only Some?: Equity versus Excellence and the Talented Tenth, Richard A. Epstein, Daniel Pianko, Jon Schnur, and Joshua Wyner
Avoiding Oversight: Legislator Preferences & Congressional Monitoring of the Administrative State, Brian D. Feinstein
Community Benefits Agreements with Transit Agencies: Neighborhood Change Along Boston’s Rail Lines and a Legal Strategy for Addressing Gentrification, Brian D. Feinstein and Ashley Allen
Ostrom's Law: Property Rights in the Commons, Lee Anne Fennell
Property and Precaution, Lee Anne Fennell
Unbundling Risk, Lee Anne Fennell
Willpower Taxes, Lee Anne Fennell
Detention and Deportation with Inadequate Due Process: the Devastating Consequences of Juvenile Involvement with Law Enforcement for Immigrant Youth, Elizabeth Frankel
An Economic Interpretation of the Pashtunwali, Tom Ginsburg
Pitfalls of Measuring the Rule of Law, Tom Ginsburg
On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits, Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton
Building Reputation in Constitutional Courts: Political and Judicial Audiences, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
Hybrid Judicial Career Structures: Reputation versus Legal Tradition, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
Empiricism and the Rising Incidence of Coauthorship in Law, Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles
Fantasies and Illusions: On Liberty, Order, and Free Markets, Bernard E. Harcourt
Institutionalization Effect: The Impact of Mental Hospitalization and Imprisonment on Homicide in the United States, 1934-2001, An, Bernard E. Harcourt
Keynote: The Crisis and Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt
Making Willing Bodies: The University of Chicago Human Experiments at Stateville Penitentiary, Bernard E. Harcourt
Radical Thought from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, through Foucault, to the Present: Comments on Steven Luke's In Defense of False Consciousness Governance and Power, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Hospitals in the 1960s, Bernard E. Harcourt
Surveiller et punir à l’age actuariel: généalogie et critique (Partie I), Bernard E. Harcourt
Surveiller et punir à l’age actuariel : généalogie et critique (Partie II), Bernard E. Harcourt
Randomization and the Fourth Amendment, Bernard E. Harcourt and Tracey L. Meares
Book Review (reviewing Robin Hickey, Property and the Law of Finders (2010)), Richard H. Helmholz
University Education and English Ecclesiastical Lawyers 1400-1650, Richard H. Helmholz
Issuer Choice After Morrison, Daniel Hemel
Regulatory Consolidation and Cross-Border Coordination: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, Daniel Hemel
Should Tax Rates Decline with Age?, Daniel Hemel
The Economic Logic of the Lease/Loan Distinction in Bankruptcy, Daniel Hemel
Insider Trading and CEO Pay, M. Todd Henderson
The Phantom Gender Difference in the College Wage Premium, William Hubbard
Private Religious Discrimination, National Security, and the First Amendment, Aziz Huq
The Political Path of Detention Policy, Aziz Huq
The Signaling Function of Religious Speech in Domestic Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq
American Policing at a Crossroads: Unsustainable Policies and the Procedural Justice Alternative, Aziz Huq, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Tom R. Tyler
How do the purpose and target of policing affect public cooperation? A study of policing crime and policing terrorism in different minority communities, Aziz Huq, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Tom R. Tyler
Mechanisms for Eliciting Cooperation in Counterterrorism Policing: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Aziz Huq, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Tom R. Tyler
On Being 'Bound Thereby', Alison LaCroix
Rhetoric and Reality in Early American Legal History: A Reply to Gordon Wood, Alison LaCroix
What if Madison Had Won? Imagining a Constitutional World of Legislative Supremacy, Alison LaCroix
Measuring Coase's Influence, William M. Landes and Sonia Lahr-Pastor
Naturalized Jurisprudence and American Legal Realism Revisited, Brian Leiter
Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered, Brian Leiter
O naturalismo de Nietzsche reconsiderado, Brian Leiter
The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Scepticism, Brian Leiter
Bargaining with Double Jeopardy, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Incentives for Reporting Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Anup Malani and Ramanan Laxminarayan
Patent Inflation, Jonathan Masur
Patent Liability Rules as Search Rules, Jonathan Masur
Regulating Patents, Jonathan Masur
Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Present Bias and Criminal Law, Richard H. McAdams
On the Economics of Climate Policy, Thomas J. Miles, Gary S. Becker, and Robert Topel
Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Democracy, Education, and the Liberal Arts: Two Asian Models, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Rawls's Political Liberalism: A Reassessment, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Reinventing the Civil Religion: Comte, Mill, Tagore, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The End of Education, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Property's Memories, Eduardo Peñalver
The Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act: Playing Railroad Tycoon, Randal C. Picker
The Mediated Book, Randal C. Picker
The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s), Randal C. Picker
Book Review (reviewing Larry May, Global Justice and Due Process (2011)), Eric A. Posner
Dockets of War, Eric A. Posner
Pricing Terms in Sovereign Debt Contracts: A Greek Case Study With Implications for the European Crisis Resolution Mechanism, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Judging Women, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, and Mirya Holman
Efficient Breach of International Law: Optimal Remedies, Legalized Noncompliance, and Related Issues, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Comment on Merrill on the Law of Waste, Richard A. Posner
Keynes and Coase, Richard A. Posner
Realism About Judges, Richard A. Posner
The Bluebook Blues (reviewing Harvard Law Review Association, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed., 2010)), Richard A. Posner
Why (and When) Judges Dissent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Richard A. Posner, William M. Landes, and Lee Epstein
Privatization and the Sale of Tax Revenues, Julie Roin
Book Review (reviewing Mark C. Miller, The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions Between Congress and the Federal Judiciary (2009)), Gerald Rosenberg
Book Review (reviewing Martha Minow, In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark (2010)), Gerald Rosenberg
Dedication Letter for Justice John Paul Stevens, Adam M. Samaha
Regulation for the Sake of Appearance, Adam M. Samaha
Federalizing Fiduciary Duty: The Altered Scope of Officer Fiduciary Duty following Orderly Liquidation under Dodd-Frank, Dorothy Shapiro Lund
Kiobel and Corporate Immunity Under the Alien Tort Statute: The Struggle for Clarity Post-Sosa, Dorothy Shapiro Lund
Death Is Different No Longer: Graham v. Florida and the Future of Eighth Amendment Challenges to Noncapital Sentences, Alison Siegler and Barry Sullivan
Electoral Exceptionalism and the First Amendment: A Road Paved with Good Intentions, Geoffrey R. Stone
Ronald Coase's First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
Secrecy and Self-Governance, Geoffrey R. Stone
Selective Judicial Activism, Geoffrey R. Stone
Understanding Supreme Court Confirmations, Geoffrey R. Stone
WikiLeaks and the First Amendment (FCBA Distinguished Speaker Series), Geoffrey R. Stone
WikiLeaks, the Proposed SHIELD Act, and the First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Framers' Constitution, Geoffrey R. Stone and William P. Marshall
Do We Have a Living Constitution?, David A. Strauss
Originalism, Conservatism, and Judicial Restraint, David A. Strauss
The Last Liberal Justice, David A. Strauss
The Pareto Minimal Tax System – A Review of Fundamental Tax Reform, Issues, Choices, and Implications, David A. Weisbach
The Regulation of Tax Advice and Advisors, David A. Weisbach
A Critical Look at a Critical Look – Reply To Sanchirico, David A. Weisbach and Joseph Bankman
Discount Rates, Social Judgments, Individuals' Risk Preferences, and Uncertainty, David A. Weisbach and Louis Kaplow
Summary Judgment and the Law of Unintended Consequences, Diane P. Wood
The Quiet Convergence Of Arbitration And Litigation, Diane P. Wood
A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions, Luigi Zingales and Oliver Hart
Submissions from 2010
International Agreements, Internal Heterogeneity, and Climate Change: The Two Chinas Problem, Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur
Bill Clinton's Parting Pardon Party, Albert W. Alschuler
Bankruptcy from Olympus, Douglas G. Baird
Present at the Creation: The SEC and the Origins of the Absolute Priority Rule, Douglas G. Baird
Antibankruptcy, Douglas G. Baird and Robert K. Rasmussen
Net Neutrality and Consumer Welfare, Gary S. Becker, Dennis W. Carlton, and Hal S. Sider
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women, Gary S. Becker, William Hubbard, and Kevin Murphy
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women, Gary S. Becker, William Hubbard, and Kevin Murphy
One-Way Contracts: Consumer Protection Without Law, Omri Ben-Shahar
Pre-Closing Liability, Omri Ben-Shahar
Clear Statement Rules and Executive War Powers, Curtis A. Bradley
State Action and Corporate Human Rights Liability, Curtis A. Bradley
The United States and Human Rights Treaties: Race Relations, the Cold War, and Constitutionalism, Curtis A. Bradley
Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Domestic Officer Suit, Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith
Customary International Law And Withdrawal Rights in an Age Of Treaties, Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati
Withdrawing from International Custom, Curtis A. Bradley and Mitu Gulati
International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, Curtis A. Bradley and Laurence R. Helfer
Credit Bidding and the Design of Bankruptcy Auctions, Vincent Buccola and Ashley C. Keller
A Lot to Ask (reviewing Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (2010)), Mary Anne Case
What Feminists Have to Lose in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation, Mary Anne Case
Pregnant Man: Amazon or Etana?, Mary Anne Case, Noa Ben-Asher, Elizabeth Emens, and Darren Rosenblum
The Rights of Migrants: An Optimal Contract Framework, Adam B. Cox and Eric A. Posner
The Subprime Crisis and Financial Regulation: International and Comparative Perspectives, Kenneth W. Dam
Do Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors?, Dhammika Dharmapala and Mihir A. Desai
Legislatures, Judges, and Parole Boards: The Allocations of Discretion under Determinate Sentencing, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Joanna M. Shepherd
Judges as Honest Agents, Frank H. Easterbrook
A Big Year for the First Amendment: Church and State at the Crossroads: Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Richard A. Epstein
Academic Fraud Today: Its Social Causes and Institutional Responses, Richard A. Epstein
Bleak Prospects: How Health Care Reform Has Failed in the United States, Richard A. Epstein
Carbon Dioxide: Our Newest Pollutant, Richard A. Epstein
Executive Power in Political and Corporate Contexts, Richard A. Epstein
How to Undermine Tax Increment Financing: The Lessons of City of Chicago v. ProLogis, Richard A. Epstein
NRA v. City of Chicago : Does the Second Amendment Bind Frank Easterbrook?, Richard A. Epstein
Obama's Constitution: The Passive Virtues Writ Large, Richard A. Epstein
Takings Law Made Hard: A Novel Property Rights Challenge Is a Constitutional Morass, Richard A. Epstein
The Classical Liberal Alternative to Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism (reviewing Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, eds.,The Constitution in 2020 (2009)), Richard A. Epstein
The Spurious Constitutional Distinction Between Takings and Regulation, Richard A. Epstein
Toward a General Theory of Tort Law: Strict Liability in Context, Richard A. Epstein
What Tort Theory Tells Us about Federal Preemption: The Tragic Saga of Wyeth v. Levine, Richard A. Epstein
Why I Will Never Be a Keynesian, Richard A. Epstein
Why We Need Term Limits for Congress: Four in the Senate, Ten in the House, Richard A. Epstein
The Dynasty Advantage: Family Ties in Congressional Elections, Brian D. Feinstein
Controlling Residential Stakes, Lee Anne Fennell and Julie Roin
Modeling the Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Selection and Jury Verdicts, Roger Ford
Eastphalia and Asian Regionalism, Tom Ginsburg
Eastphalia as the Perfection of Westphalia, Tom Ginsburg
Lawrence M. Friedman’s Comparative Law, With Notes On Japan, Tom Ginsburg
Studying Japanese Law Because It's There, Tom Ginsburg
The Arbitrator as Agent: Why Deferential Review is Not Always Pro-Arbitration, Tom Ginsburg
Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Tom Ginsburg, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Zachary Elkins
Subconstitutionalism, Tom Ginsburg and Eric A. Posner
Neoliberal Penality: A Brief Genealogy, Bernard E. Harcourt
Book Review (reviewing John H. Langbein, R.L. Lerner, & Bruce Smith, History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009)), Richard H. Helmholz
Scandalum in the Medieval Canon Law and in the English Ecclesiastical Courts, Richard H. Helmholz
Empty Creditors and Debt Exchanges, Daniel Hemel
Review of Nigel D. White, Democracy Goes to War (2009), Daniel Hemel
Tyranny on Trial: Regional Courts Crack Down on Mugabe’s Land “Reform”, Daniel Hemel and Andrew Schalkwyk
Justifying Jones, M. Todd Henderson
Predicting Crime, M. Todd Henderson, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz
Against National Security Exceptionalism, Aziz Huq
Easterbrook on Academic Freedom, Aziz Huq
Modeling Terrorist Radicalization The New Face of Discrimination: Muslim in America, Aziz Huq
What Good is Habeas?, Aziz Huq
Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counterterrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans, Aziz Huq, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Tom R. Tyler
Lincoln the Dictator, Dennis J. Hutchinson
The Future of Taxation, Joseph Isenbergh
History Lesson, Part 1, Todd Ito
Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn E. Getgen, and Steven Arrigg Koh
Temporal Imperialism, Alison LaCroix
The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology, Alison LaCroix
Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect?, Brian Leiter
Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: Comment on Professor Szubka, Brian Leiter
Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant to Legal Regulation, Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
Ambiguous Statutes, Saul Levmore
Book Review (reviewing Mark R. Reiff, Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (2005)), Saul Levmore
Interest Groups and the Problem with Incrementalism, Saul Levmore
Eminent Domain after Kelo, Saul Levmore and Ilya Somin
Ambiguity about Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation, Anup Malani, Ward Farnsworth, and Dustin F. Guzior
Booker Reconsidered, Jonathan Masur
Costly Screens and Patent Examination, Jonathan Masur
Retribution and the Experience of Punishment, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
Welfare as Happiness, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
The Institutional Dynamics of Transition Relief, Jonathan Masur and Jonathan Remy Nash
Against Feasibility Analysis, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Economic Costs of Inequality, Richard H. McAdams
Dupes and Losers in Mail Fraud, Thomas J. Miles
Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Financial Institutions (discussion remarks), Edward Morrison
Private Regulation and Foreign Conduct, Adam I. Muchmore
Do Judges Cherry Pick Precedents to Justify Extra-legal Decisions?: A Statistical Examination, Anthony Niblett
The Evolution of a Legal Rule, Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner, and Andrei Shleifer
A Right to Marry?, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Deliberation and Insight: Bloch v. Frischholz and the 'Chicago School' of Judicial Behavior, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Equality and Love at the End of The Marriage of Figaro: Forging Democratic Emotions, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Liberalism, Development, and Gender: Response to the Papers, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Reply to Diane Wood, Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Illusory Right to Abandon, Eduardo Peñalver
Easterbrook on Copyright, Randal C. Picker
Evaluating the Effects of International Law: Next Steps, Eric A. Posner
ProCD v. Zeidenberg and Cognitive Overload in Contractual Bargaining, Eric A. Posner
Professionals or Politicians?: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Judiciary, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Economic Foundations of the Law of the Sea, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Divide and Conquer, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule, and Kathryn E. Spier
From the New Institutional Economics to Organization Economics: With Applications to Corporate Governance, Government Agencies, and Legal Institutions, Richard A. Posner
Judicial Review, a Comparative Perspective: Israel, Canada, and the United States, Richard A. Posner
Kafka: The Writer as Lawyer (reviewing Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner, eds., Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (2009)), Richard A. Posner
On the Receipt of the Ronald H. Coase Medal: Uncertainty, The Economic Crisis, and the Future of Law and Economics, Richard A. Posner
Reply to Comments, Richard A. Posner
Some Realism about Judges: A Reply to Edwards and Livermore, Richard A. Posner
The Judiciary and the Academy: A Fraught Relationship, Richard A. Posner
Inferring the Winning Party in the Supreme Court from the Pattern of Questioning at Oral Argument, Richard A. Posner, William M. Landes, and Lee Epstein
What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation, Richard A. Posner and Albert H. Yoon
The Limits of Textualism: Cooper v. IBM Personal Pension Plan, Julie Roin
Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit: Introduction, Julie Roin, Lee Anne Fennell, and Richard A. Epstein
The Cost of Time: Haphazard Discounting and the Undervaluation of Regulatory Benefits, Arden Rowell
Low Stakes and Constitutional Interpretation, Adam M. Samaha
On Law's Tiebreakers, Adam M. Samaha
Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972, Eric Schickler, Kathryn Pearson, and Brian D. Feinstein
Justiciability and the Role of Courts in Adequacy Litigation: Preserving the Constitutional Right to Education, Julia Simon-Kerr and Robynn K. Sturm
American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut: The Government Must Leave to the People the Evaluation of Ideas, Geoffrey R. Stone
Honoring the Legacies of Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Second Great Awakening: A Christian Nation?, Geoffrey R. Stone
Pseudonymous Litigation, Lior Strahilevitz
Reunifying Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
The Right to Abandon, Lior Strahilevitz
Is Carolene Products Obsolete?, David A. Strauss
Statutes' Domains and Judges' Prerogatives, David A. Strauss
Trade and Carbon Taxes, David A. Weisbach
The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change, David A. Weisbach, Louis Kaplow, and Elisabeth Moyer
Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach, Diane P. Wood
A Market-Based Regulatory Policy to Avoid Financial Crises, Luigi Zingales
Submissions from 2009
Great Power Politics and the Structure of Foreign Relations Law, Daniel Abebe
Canonizing the Civil Rights Revolution: The People and the Poll Tax, Bruce Ackerman and Jennifer Nou
Properties of community, Gregory Alexander and Eduardo Peñalver
From Blackstone to Holmes: The Revolt against Natural Law Historic Proponents and the Critics of Higher Law, Albert Alschuler
Herring v. United States: A Minnow or a Shark Term Paper, Albert W. Alschuler
Two Ways to Think about the Punishment of Corporations, Albert W. Alschuler
Harm, Ambiguity, and the Regulation of Illegal Contracts, Adam Badawi
Interpretive Preferences and the Limits of the New Formalism, Adam Badawi
The Bankruptcy Exchange, Douglas G. Baird
Debunking Blackstonian Copyright (reviewing Neil Weinstock Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (2008)), Shyam Balganesh
Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, Shyam Balganesh
A Bargaining Power Theory of Default Rules, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Myth of 'Opportunity to Read' in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar
An Information Theory of Willful Breach, Omri Ben-Shahar and Oren Bar-Gill
The Prisoners' (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, Omri Ben-Shahar and Oren Bar-Gill
Fault in American Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Foreword: Fault in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Foreign Officials and Sovereign Immunity in U.S. Courts, Curtis A. Bradley
The Bush Administration and International Law: Too Much Lawyering and Too Little Diplomacy, Curtis A. Bradley
The United States, Israel & Unlawful Combatants, Curtis A. Bradley
Rethinking the Connection Between Developmental Science and Juvenile Justice, Emily Buss
What the Law Should (And Should Not) Learn from Child Development Research, Emily Buss
Feminist Fundamentalism on the Frontier between Government and Family Responsibility for Children, Mary Anne Case
A Global Architecture for Medical Counter-Measure Preparedness against Bioviolence, Zachary D. Clopton and Barry Kellman
Making Sense of Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox
The Rights of Migrants: An Optimal Contract Framework, Adam B. Cox and Eric A. Posner
The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez
Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer v. United States and Its Significance, Paul Crane
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment, Dhammika Dharmapala and Mihir A. Desai
Which Countries Have Become Tax Havens?, Dhammika Dharmapala and James R. Hines Jr.
The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance, Frank H. Easterbrook
Activity Levels under the Hand Formula: A Comment on Gilo and Guttel, Richard A. Epstein
Against Permititis: Why Voluntary Organizations Should Regulate the Use of Cancer Drugs, Richard A. Epstein
A Speech on the Structural Constitution and the Stimulus Program, Richard A. Epstein
Lessons from the Common Law of Reasonable Expectations, Richard A. Epstein
Monopolization Follies: The Dangers of Structural Remedies under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Richard A. Epstein
Not so Private Takings: A Response to Abraham Bell’s Private Takings, Richard A. Epstein
Overtreated, or Overregulated? (reviewing Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (2008)), Richard A. Epstein
Political Bankruptcies: How Chrysler and GM Have Changed the Rules of the Game, Richard A. Epstein
Privacy and the Third Hand: Lessons from the Common Law of Reasonable Expectations, Richard A. Epstein
Property Rights, State of Nature Theory, and Environmental Protection, Richard A. Epstein
Protect Us, Lord, from Title VII: A Response to Gelbach, Klick, and Wexler, Richard A. Epstein
Public Use in a Post-Kelo World, Richard A. Epstein
The Case for Field Preemption of State Laws in Drug Cases, Richard A. Epstein
The Disintegration of Intellectual Property - A Classical Liberal Response to a Premature Obituary, Richard A. Epstein
The Going Private Phenomenon: Causes and Implications, Richard A. Epstein and M. Todd Henderson
Debate, Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado about Nothing?, Richard A. Epstein, Gregory S. Parks, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Virtues of Going Slow, Richard A. Epstein and Amanda M. Rose
