Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
Submissions from 2005
Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Public vs. Private Enforcement of International Economic Law: Of Standing and Remedy, Alan O. Sykes
Trade Remedy Laws, Alan O. Sykes
Absolute Voting Rules, Adrian Vermeule
Political Constraints on Supreme Court Reform, Adrian Vermeule
Reparations as Rough Justice, Adrian Vermeule
The Superiority of an Ideal Consumption Tax over an Ideal Income Tax, David A. Weisbach and Joseph Bankman
Paretian Intergenerational Discounting, David A. Weisbach and Dexter Samida
Submissions from 2004
Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act, and the WTO, Kenneth W. Dam
Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care Coverage: A Critique of the Institute of Medicine Study, Richard A. Epstein
Liberty versus Property? Cracks in the Foundations of Copyright Law, Richard A. Epstein
The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules, Richard A. Epstein
Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge: Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry, Thomas N. Hubbard and Luis Garicano
Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor within and between Law Firms, Thomas N. Hubbard and Luis Garicano
Navigating the Anticommons for Pharmaceutical Patents: Steady the Course on Hatch-Waxman, Bruce N. Kuhlik and Richard A. Epstein
How the Law Responds to Self-Help, Douglas Gary Lichtman
Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable, Douglas Gary Lichtman and Eric A. Posner
Cyber Security: Of Heterogeneity and Autarky, Randal C. Picker
Unbundling Scope-of-Permission Goods: When Should We Invest in Reducing Entry Barriers?, Randal C. Picker
The Decline of the International Court of Justice, Eric A. Posner
Is the International Court of Justice Biased?, Eric A. Posner and Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo
The Law and Economics of Contract Interpretation, Richard A. Posner
Conflict or Credibility: Analyst Conflicts of Interest and the Market for Underwriting Business, James C. Spindler
Corporate Heroin: A Defense of Perks, James C. Spindler and M. Todd Henderson
A Social Networks Theory of Privacy, Lior Strahilevitz
The Right to Destroy, Lior Strahilevitz
Are Poor People Worth Less Than Rich People? Disaggregating the Value of Statistical Lives, Cass R. Sunstein
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment, Cass R. Sunstein
Group Judgments: Deliberation, Statistical Means, and Information Markets, Cass R. Sunstein
Minimalism at War, Cass R. Sunstein
Precautions against What? The Availability Heuristic and Cross-Cultural Risk Perceptions, Cass R. Sunstein
Debiasing through Law, Cass R. Sunstein and Christine Jolls
Dollars and Death, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
The Economics of Public International Law, Alan O. Sykes
The Persistent Puzzles of Safeguards: Lessons from the Steel Dispute, Alan O. Sykes
Optimal War and Jus Ad Bellum, Alan O. Sykes and Eric A. Posner
Company Stock, Market Rationality, and Legal Reform, Stephen P. Utkus, Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, and Shlomo Benartzi
Corporate Tax Avoidance, David A. Weisbach
The (Non)Taxation of Risk, David A. Weisbach
A Theory of International Adjudication, John C. Yoo and Eric A. Posner
Submissions from 2003
Regulation by Networks, Amitai Aviram
The Paradox of Spontaneous Formation of Private Legal Systems, Amitai Aviram
In Coase's Footsteps, Douglas G. Baird
Decreasing Liability Contracts, Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
Class Actions: Aggregation, Amplification and Distortion, Richard A. Epstein
The "Necessary" History of Property and Liberty, Richard A. Epstein
Trade Secrets as Private Property: Their Constitutional Protection, Richard A. Epstein
Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: An Economic Perspective, William M. Landes and Douglas Gary Lichtman
Insuring against Terrorism - and Crime, Saul Levmore and Kyle D. Logue
Rethinking Prosecution History Estoppel, Douglas Gary Lichtman
The Digital Video Recorder: Unbundling Advertising and Content, Randal C. Picker
Understanding Statutory Bundles: Does the Sherman Act Come with the 1996 Telecommunications Act?, Randal C. Picker
Entry Policy in Local Telecommunications: Iowa Utilities and Verizon, Randal C. Picker and Douglas Gary Lichtman
Transfer Regulations and Cost Effectiveness Analysis, Eric A. Posner
Chapter 11 at Twilight, Robert K. Rasmussen and Douglas G. Baird
Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay, Cass R. Sunstein
Moral Heuristics, Cass R. Sunstein
What Did Lawrence Hold? Of Autonomy, Desuetude, Sexuality, and Marriage, Cass R. Sunstein
Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation, Cass R. Sunstein, Lisa Michelle Ellman, and David Schkade
Statistics, Not Memories: What Was the Standard of Care for Administering Antenatal Steroids to Women in Preterm Labor between 1985 and 2000?, Cass R. Sunstein, William Meadow, and Anthony Bell
International Trade and Human Rights: An Economic Perspective, Alan O. Sykes
The Economics of WTO Rules on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Alan O. Sykes
The Safeguards Mess: A Critique of WTO Jurisprudence, Alan O. Sykes
The Effects of Taxation on Income-Producing Crimes with Variable Leisure-Time, Avraham D. Tabbach
Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Measurement and Tax Depreciation Policy: The Case of Short-Term Assets, David A. Weisbach
The Integration of Tax Spending Programs, David A. Weisbach and Jacob Nussim
Submissions from 2002
Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights, Richard A. Epstein
HIPAA on Privacy: Its Unintended and Intended Consequences, Richard A. Epstein
In Defense of "Old" Public Health: The Legal Framework for the Regulation of Public Health, Richard A. Epstein
Into the Frying Pan: Standing and Privity under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Beyond, Richard A. Epstein
Steady the Course: Property Rights in Genetic Material, Richard A. Epstein
Copyright as a Rule of Evidence, Douglas Gary Lichtman
Uncertainty and the Standard for Preliminary Relief, Douglas Gary Lichtman
Copyright as Entry Policy: The Case of Digital Distribution, Randal C. Picker
From Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and Refusal and the Propertization of Copyright, Randal C. Picker
A Theory of the Laws of War, Eric A. Posner
Economic Analysis of Contract Law after Three Decades: Success or Failure?, Eric A. Posner
Probability Errors: Some Positive and Normative Implications for Tort and Contract Law, Eric A. Posner
Indefinitely Renewable Copyright, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
The End of Bankruptcy, Robert K. Rasmussen and Douglas G. Baird
Truth in Government: Beyond the Tax Expenditure Budget, Julie Roin
Charismatic Code, Social Norms, and the Emergence of Cooperation on the File-Swapping Networks, Lior Strahilevitz
Avoiding Absurdity? A New Canon in Regulatory law (with notes on interpretive theory), Cass R. Sunstein
Beyond the Precautionary Principle, Cass R. Sunstein
Conformity and Dissent, Cass R. Sunstein
Hazardous Heuristics, Cass R. Sunstein
The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer, Cass R. Sunstein
Military Tribunals and Legal Culture: What a Difference Sixty Years Makes, Cass R. Sunstein and Jack L. Goldsmith
A New Executive Order for Improving Federal Regulation? Deeper and Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass R. Sunstein and Robert W. Hahn
Inequality and Indignation, Cass R. Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Interpretation and Institutions, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Rational Custom, Edward T. Swaine
TRIPs, Pharmaceuticals, Developing Countries, and the Doha "Solution", Alan O. Sykes
Terrorism and Insurance Markets: A Role for the Government as Insurer?, Alan O. Sykes and Anne Gron
The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the WTO/GATT System, Alan O. Sykes and Warren F. Schwartz
Criminal Behavior: Sanctions and Income Taxation: An Economic Analysis, Avraham D. Tabbach
Does the X-Tax Mark the Spot?, David A. Weisbach
Taxation and Risk-Taking with Multiple Tax Rates, David A. Weisbach
Taxes and Torts in the Redistribution of Income, David A. Weisbach
