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 2008
Human Welfare, Not Human Rights, Eric A. Posner
Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts?, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Soft Law, Eric A. Posner and Jacob Gersen
Which States Enter into Treaties, and Why?, Eric A. Posner and Thomas J. Miles
Crisis Governance in the Administrative State: 9/11 and the Financial Meltdown of 2008, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Dead Hand Arguments and Constitutional Interpretation, Adam M. Samaha
Judicial Transparency in an Age of Prediction, Adam M. Samaha
Originalism's Expiration Date, Adam M. Samaha
Adolescent Risk-Taking and Social Meaning: A Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein
Beyond Judicial Minimalism, Cass R. Sunstein
Is OSHA Unconstitutional?, Cass R. Sunstein
Judging National Security Post-9/11: An Empirical Investigation, Cass R. Sunstein
Second Amendment Minimalism: Heller as Griswold, Cass R. Sunstein
Trimming, Cass R. Sunstein
Two Concepts of Irreversible Environmental Harm, Cass R. Sunstein
Four Failures of Deliberating Groups, Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie
Depoliticizing Administrative Law, Cass R. Sunstein and Thomas J. Miles
Should Green House Gas Permits be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
Conspiracy Theories, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Overreaction to Fearsome Risks, Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Zeckhauser
Behavioral Criminal Law and Economics, Thomas S. Ulen and Richard H. McAdams
Submissions from 2007
Demystifying the Right to Exclude: Of Property, Inviolability, and Automatic Injunctions, Shyam Balganesh
Contraindicated Drug Courts, Josh Bowers
Grassroots Plea Bargaining, Josh Bowers
Punishing the Innocent, Josh Bowers
Judging the Voting Rights Act, Adam B. Cox
Event Jurisdiction and Protective Coordination: Lessons from September 11th Litigation, Robin Effron
Legislative Rules Revisited, Jacob Gersen
Overlapping and Underlapping Jurisdiction in Administrative Law, Jacob Gersen
An Answer to the Question: 'What Is Poststructuralism?', Bernard E. Harcourt
A reader's companion to 'Against Protection', Bernard E. Harcourt
From the Asylum to the Prison: Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution. Part II: State Level Analysis, Bernard E. Harcourt
Judge Richard Posner on Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, Bernard E. Harcourt
From 'Seriatim' to Consensus and Back Again: A Theory of Dissent, M. Todd Henderson
Indignation: Psychology, Politics, Law, Daniel Kahneman
Inefficient Customs in International Law, Eugene Kontorovich
What Standing Is Good For, Eugene Kontorovich
Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, Timur Kuran
Economic Costs of Inequality, Richard H. McAdams
Reforming Entrapment Doctrine in United States v. Hollingsworth, Richard H. McAdams
The Real World of Arbitrariness Review, Thomas J. Miles
Apprendi’s Domain, Jonathan F. Mitchell
An Empirical Investigation into Appellate Structure and the Perceived Quality of Appellate Review, Jonathan Remy Nash
Economic Efficiency versus Public Choice: The Case of Property Rights in Road Traffic Management, Jonathan Remy Nash
Standing and the Precautionary Principle, Jonathan Remy Nash
Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal, Eric A. Posner
Timing Rules and Legal Institutions, Eric A. Posner and Jacob Gersen
Constitutional Showdowns, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Can the Income Tax Be Saved? The Promise and Pitfalls of Unitary Formulary Apportionment, Julie Roin
What Good Is the Social Model of Disability?, Adam M. Samaha
Privacy versus Antidiscrimination, Lior Strahilevitz
Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information, Lior Strahilevitz
Backlash's Travels, Cass R. Sunstein
Cost-Benefit Analysis without Analyzing Costs or Benefits: Reasonable Accommodation, Balancing, and Stigmatic Harms, Cass R. Sunstein
Deliberating Groups versus Prediction Markets (or Hayek's Challenge to Habermas), Cass R. Sunstein
Due Process Traditionalism, Cass R. Sunstein
If People Would Be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care?, Cass R. Sunstein
Illusory Losses, Cass R. Sunstein
Incompletely Theorized Agreements in Constitutional Law, Cass R. Sunstein
On the Tension between Sex Equality and Religious Freedom, Cass R. Sunstein
The Complex Climate Change Incentives of China and the United States, Cass R. Sunstein
Willingness to Pay versus Welfare, Cass R. Sunstein
Extremism and Social Learning, Cass R. Sunstein and Edward L. Glaeser
Climate Change and Animals, Cass R. Sunstein and Wayne Hsiung
Causation in Tort: General Populations vs. Individual Cases, Cass R. Sunstein and William Meadow
The New Legal Realism, Cass R. Sunstein and Thomas J. Miles
Climate Change Justice, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
On Learning from Others, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
Submissions from 2006
Transparency and Participation in Criminal Procedure, Stephanos Bibas
Designing Redistricting Institutions, Adam B. Cox
The Temporal Dimension of Voting Rights, Adam B. Cox
Transparency in the Budget Process, Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule
Temporary Legislation, Jacob Gersen
Chevron as a Voting Rule, Jacob Gersen and Adrian Vermeule
Embracing Chance: Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment, Bernard E. Harcourt
Muslim Profiles Post 911: Is Racial Profiling an Effective Counterterrorist Measure and Does it Violate the Right to Be Free from Discrimination?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York, Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Activists Vote Twice, Joseph Isenbergh
Insuring against Terrorism - and Crime, Saul Levmore and Kyle D. Logue
Captive Audiences and the First Amendment, Douglas Gary Lichtman
The International Protection of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner
Presidential Signing Statements and Executive Power, Eric A. Posner and Curtis A. Bradley
The New International Law Scholarship, Eric A. Posner and Jack L. Goldsmith
The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
International Law and the Rise of China, Eric A. Posner and John C. Yoo
Undue Process, Adam M. Samaha
'How's My Driving?' for Everyone (and Everything?), Lior Strahilevitz
Burkean Minimalism, Cass R. Sunstein
Clear Statement Principles and National Security: Hamdan and Beyond, Cass R. Sunstein
Montreal versus Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols, Cass R. Sunstein
Of Snakes and Butterflies: A Reply, Cass R. Sunstein
Second-Order Perfectionsim, Cass R. Sunstein
The Law of Implicit Bias, Cass R. Sunstein and Christine Jolls
Animal Rights without Controversy, Cass R. Sunstein and Jeff Leslie
Chevronizing Foreign Relations Law, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
The Law of Other States, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
Self-Defeating Proposals: Ackerman on Emergency Powers, Adrian Vermeule
The Delegation Lottery, Adrian Vermeule
Submissions from 2005
Pets or Meat, Mary Anne Case
