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.
Submissions from 2015
Presidential Leadership and the Separation of Powers, Eric A. Posner
Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development?, Eric A. Posner
Institutional Flip-Flops, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Second-Order Regulation of Law Enforcement, John Rappaport
Unbundling Criminal Trial Rights, John Rappaport
Don't Ask, Must Tell—and Other Combinations, Adam M. Samaha and Lior Strahilevitz
The New and Old Originalism: A Discussion, Steven Douglas Smith, Michael B. Rappaport, William Baude, and Stephen E. Sachs
Arizona and Anti-Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Civil Rights in a Desegregating America, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Political Powerlessness, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Realities of Electoral Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Eric McGhee, and Steven Rogers
Nietzsche and Moral Psychology, Daniel Telech and Brian Leiter
Civil Liberties Outside the Courts, Laura Weinrib
Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken, Laura Weinrib
Friedrichs: An Unexpected Tool for Labor, Heather Whitney
Sued If You Do, Sued If You Don’t: Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as a Defense to Race-Conscious Districting, Caroline A. Wong
Submissions from 2014
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile: The Economics of International Water Law, Daniel Abebe
Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions, Dawood I. Ahmed and Tom Ginsburg
Limited Political Contributions after McCutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow, Albert W. Alschuler
Limiting Political Contributions after Mccutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow, Albert W. Alschuler
Regarding Re's Revisionism: Notes on 'The Due Process Exclusionary Rule', Albert W. Alschuler
Terrible Tools for Prosecutors: Notes on Senator Leahy's Proposal to 'Fix' Skilling v. United States, Albert W. Alschuler
Sharing the Necessary and Proper Clause, William Baude
State Regulation and the Necessary and Proper Clause, William Baude
Zombie Federalism, William Baude
Trade Usage in the Courts: The Flawed Conceptual and Evidentiary Basis of Article 2’s Incorporation Strategy, Lisa Bernstein
Well-Being and Public Policy, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
Addressing Minority Vote Dilution Through State Voting Rights Acts, Paige A. Epstein
Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell
Fairness in Law and Economics: Introduction, Lee Anne Fennell and Richard H. McAdams
Judicial Roles in Nonjudicial Functions, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg
Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton
Introduction, Chapter 1 of Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
Nuisance Suits, William Hubbard
The Discovery Sombrero, and Other Metaphors for Litigation, William Hubbard
Do Judges Follow the Law? An Empirical Test of Congressional Control Over Judicial Behavior, William Hubbard and M. Todd Henderson
Coasean Bargaining over the Structural Constitution, Aziz Huq
Does the Logic of Collective Action Explain Federalism Doctrine?, Aziz Huq
Habeas and the Roberts Court, Aziz Huq
Libertarian Separation of Powers, Aziz Huq
The Function of Article V, Aziz Huq
The Shadow Powers of Article I, Alison LaCroix
The Invention of Low-Value Speech, Genevieve Lakier
Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism, Brian Leiter
Preface to the Paperback Edition of Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter
The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy, Brian Leiter
Credible Threats, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
[Dis-]Informing the People's Discretion: Judicial Deference Under The National Security Exemption of the Freedom of Information Act, Susan Nevelow Mart and Tom Ginsburg
Deference Mistakes, Jonathan Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
The Psychology of Corporate Rights, Avital Mentovich, Aziz Huq, and Moran Cerf
Sub-Regulating Elections, Jennifer Nou
Valuable Lies, Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
Martii Koskenniemi on Human Rights: An Empirical Perspective, Eric A. Posner
Voting Rules in International Organizations, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulations: A Response to Criticisms, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Aligning Campaign Finance Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Teaching Election Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee
Distributionally-Weighted Cost Benefit Analysis: Welfare Economics Meets Organizational Design, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2013
One Voice or Many? The Political Question Doctrine and Acoustic Dissonance in Foreign Affairs, Daniel Abebe
Foreign Affairs Federalism: A Revisionist Approach, Daniel Abebe and Aziz Huq
Lafler and Frye: Two Small Band-Aids for a Festering Wound, Albert W. Alschuler
Bankruptcy Step Zero, Douglas G. Baird and Anthony Casey
Crowdsourcing Land Use, Lee Anne Fennell
Forcings, Lee Anne Fennell
Property in Housing, Lee Anne Fennell
Exactions Creep, Lee Anne Fennell and Eduardo Peñalver
Patent Invalidity versus Noninfringement, Roger Ford
Political Constraints on International Courts, Tom Ginsburg
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, Tom Ginsburg, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Zachary Elkins
The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps', Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon
Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice, Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and Beth Simmons
'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles, Tom Ginsburg, Nick Foti, and Daniel Rockmore
Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law, Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard H. McAdams
Beccaria's 'On Crimes and Punishments': A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
'Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment': A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session, Bernard E. Harcourt, Gary S. Becker, and François Ewald
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Shady Grove v. Allstate on Forum Shopping in the New York Courts, William Hubbard
A Theory of Pleading, William Hubbard
Federalism, Liberty, and Risk in NIFB v. Sebelius, Aziz Huq
Removal as a Political Question, Aziz Huq
Standing for the Structural Constitution, Aziz Huq
The Social Production of National Security, Aziz Huq
Tiers of Scrutiny in Enumerated Powers Jurisprudence, Aziz Huq
Women in Prison in Argentina: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences, Sital Kalantry
Historical Gloss: A Primer, Alison LaCroix
The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment, Alison LaCroix
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon, Brian Leiter
Why Legal Positivism (Again), Brian Leiter
Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases, Anup Malani and Jonathan Masur
Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law, Jonathan Masur and Christopher Buccafusco
Policing Immigration, Thomas J. Miles and Adam B. Cox
Agency Self-Insulation Under Presidential Review, Jennifer Nou
Inside or Outside the System?, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Elections and Alignment, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The South After Shelby County, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Toward a Positive Theory of Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz