The Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers series is organized by the Law School and covers constitutional law, statutory interpretation, intellectual property, family law, jurisprudence, civil procedure, voting rights, legal history, criminal law and procedure, privacy, and international law. Links to full-text are provided.

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Submissions from 2024

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Lost Time: Paying for Delays Associated with Labor Strikes and Traffic Jams (chapter in a coming book: Research Handbook on Law and Time), Saul Levmore

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Predictability and Adaptation in Law and other Markets (chapter in a coming book: Research Handbook on Law and Time), Saul Levmore

Submissions from 2023

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Be Careful What You Wish For, Albert W. Alschuler

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Twilight-Zone Originalism: The Peculiar Reasoning and Unfortunate Consequences of New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen, Albert W. Alschuler

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International Agreements by U.S. States: Federalism, Foreign Affairs, and Constitutional Change, Curtis A. Bradley

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The Hidden Judicial Springs of U.S. Foreign Policy, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq

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A Constitutional Perspective on Institutional Neutrality, Tom Ginsburg

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Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation, Christopher Havasy, Joshua Macey, and Brian Richardson

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The Corporate Governance of Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua Macey

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Cross-Border Influencers: Democracy and Externalities, Saul Levmore

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Investments in The Magnificent Ambersons: Business, Marriage, and Law-Making, Saul Levmore

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Sharing where Bargains are Impossible, Saul Levmore and Andrew Verstein

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Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman

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Real-World Prior Art, Jonathan S. Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette

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Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing, Jonathan S. Masur, Aurélie Ouss, and John Rappaport

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Toward Principled Background Principles in Takings Law, Lior Strahilevitz and Becca Hansen

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Climate Change Policy in the International Context: Solving the Carbon Leakage Problem, David A. Weisbach and Samuel S. Kortum

Submissions from 2022

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The Corruption of the Pardon Power, Albert Alschuler

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Is Quasi-Judicial Immunity Qualified Immunity?, William Baude

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The Folk Theory of Well-Being, John Bronsteen, Brian Leiter, Jonathan Masur, and Kevin Tobia

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Screening Meaning, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Mark P. McKenna

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Managing the Police Emergency, Adam Davidson

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Procedural Losses and the Pyrrhic Victory of Abolishing Qualified Immunity, Adam Davidson

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The Unexpected Costs of Moral Minimization as an Interrogation Tactic, Margareth Etienne and Richard H. McAdams

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Data Federalism, Bridget Fahey

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Submerged Independent Agencies, Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou

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Optional Price Discrimination, Lee Anne Fennell

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Streaming Property, Lee Anne Fennell

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The Gun and the Paperweight: Risk Control Services and Disservices, Lee Anne Fennell

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The United States as the Ultimate Tax Haven, Daniel Hemel

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Militant Democracy Comes to the Metaverse, Aziz Z. Huq

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The Counter-Democratic Difficulty, Aziz Z. Huq

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What we ask of law, Aziz Z. Huq

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Digital Privacy for Reproductive Choice in the Post-Roe Era, Aziz Z. Huq and Rebecca Wexler

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Stark Choices for Corporate Reform, Aneil Kovval

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Toward a "Tender Offer" Market for Labor Representation, Aneil Kovvali and Jonathan R. Macey

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Appellate Panels of One, Saul Levmore

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Reasoning and Precedents in Appellate Courts, Saul Levmore

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Checks, Not Balances, Joshua Macey and Brian Richardson

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Horizontal Collusion and Parallel Wage-Setting in Labor Markets, Johnathan Masur and Eric A. Posner

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Criminogenic Risks of Interrogation, Richard H. McAdams and Margareth Etienne

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Regulatory Diffusion, Jennifer Nou and Julian Nyarko

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Strategic Rulemaking Disclosure, Jennifer Nou and Edward H. Stiglitz

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Our Constitutionalism of Force, Farah Peterson

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Cash Substitution and Deferred Consumption as Data Breach Harms, Lior Strahilevitz and Lisa Yao Liu

Submissions from 2021

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Framing Vaccine Mandates: Messenger and Message Effects, Christopher Buccafusco and Daniel Hemel

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Assessing Affirmative Action's Diversity Rationale, Adam Chilton, Justin Driver, Jonathan S. Masur, and Kyle Rozema

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Designing Supreme Court Term Limits, Adam Chilton, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen

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Late-Stage Textualism, Ryan D. Doerfler

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Congress’s Commissioners: Former Hill Staffers at the S.E.C. and Other Independent Regulatory Commissions, Brian D. Feinstein and M. Todd Henderson

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Escape Room: Implicit Takings After Cedar Point Nursery, Lee Anne Fennell

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Visibility and Indivisibility in Resource Arrangements, Lee Anne Fennell

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Global Impunity: How Police Laws & Policies in the World's Wealthiest Countries Fail International Human Rights Standards, Claudia Flores, Brian Citro, Nino Guruli, Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Chelsea Kehrer, and Hannah S. Abrahams

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The Future of Liberal Democracy in the International Legal Order, Tom Ginsburg

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The Institutional Context of the International Court of Justice, Tom Ginsburg

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The Law of Democratic Disqualification, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and David Landau

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Regulation and Redistribution with Lives in the Balance, Daniel J. Hemel

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Revitalizing the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Daniel J. Hemel and Robert Lord

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Equalizing the Tax Treatment of Stock Buybacks and Dividends, Daniel J. Hemel and Gregg D. Polsky

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Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law, Aziz Z. Huq

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The Discrete Charm of Leveling Down, Aziz Z. Huq

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The Public Trust in Data, Aziz Z. Huq

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Shining a Light on Dark Patterns, Jamie Luguri and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

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Promoting Regulatory Prediction, Johnathan S. Masur and Jonathan Remy Nash

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Property Law for the Ages, Michael C. Pollack and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

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The Limits of International Law Fifteen Years Later, Eric A. Posner and Jack L. Goldsmith

Submissions from 2020

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Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar

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Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being, Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan S. Masur

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Toward the Democratic Regulation of AI Systems: A Prolegomenon, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq

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Outside Advisers Inside Agencies, Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel

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State Politics and Mortgage Markets, Brian D. Feinstein, Chen Meng, and Manisha Padi

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Owning Bad: Leverage and Spite in Property Law, Lee Anne Fennell

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Property as the Law of Complements, Lee Anne Fennell

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Remixing Resources, Lee Anne Fennell

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Sizing Up Categories, Lee Anne Fennell

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The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic, Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg

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The Wandering Officer, Ben Grunwald and John Rappaport

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Indexing, Unchained, Daniel J. Hemel

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Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis, Daniel J. Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette

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A Public Health Framework for COVID-19 Business Liability, Daniel Hemel and Daniel B. Rodriguez

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Constitutional Rights in the Machine Learning State, Aziz Z. Huq

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Illiberalism and Islam, Aziz Z. Huq

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Death as Divorce for the Abandoned Spouse: Davis v. Combes and the Cautious and Gender-Sensitive Judiciary, Saul Levmore

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MOPR Madness, Joshua C. Macey and Robert Ward

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Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner

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Policy Implications of the Common Ownership Debate, Eric Posner

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Changing Places, Changing Taxes: Exploiting Tax Discontinuities, Julie Roin

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The Legal Envelope Theorem, David A. Weisbach and Daniel J. Hemel

Submissions from 2019

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The Unconstitutionality of Justice Black, William Baude

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Abortion, the Disabilities of Pregnancy, and the Dignity of Risk, Mary Anne Case

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Economies of Surveillance, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq

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Privacy’s Political Economy and the State of Machine Learning, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq

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Imputing Unreported Hate Crimes Using Google Search Data, Dhammika Dharmapala and Aziz Huq

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How Clear Is "Clear" Enough?, Ryan D. Doerfler

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Rules, Standards, and Judicial Discretion, Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore

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Property Attachments, Lee Anne Fennell

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Property Beyond Exclusion, Lee Anne Fennell

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Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (Intro + Ch 1), Lee Anne Fennell

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The Architecture of a Basic Income, Miranda Perry Fleischer and Daniel Hemel

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The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Impeachment, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, and David Landau