Front Matter
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Advertising and Free Speech
Ronald H. Coase

On the Measurement of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment and the Theory of Deterrence
Isaac Ehrlich and Joel C. Gibbons

Why Is the Common Law Efficient?
Paul H. Rubin

The Common Law Process and the Selection of Efficient Rules
George L. Priest

Impossibility and Related Doctrines in Contract Law: An Economic Analysis
Richard A. Posner and Andrew M. Rosenfield

Commercial Impossibility, the Uranium Market and the Westinghouse Case
Paul L. Joskow

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Prosecutor
Brian Forst and Kathleen B. Brosi

Prior Regulation versus Post Liability: The Choice between Input and Output Monitoring
Donald A. Wittman

An Economic Analysis of the Land Title Systems for Transferring Real Property
Joseph T. Janczyk

Legislative Size and Voting Rules
W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison

Deterrence Regained: The Cheshire Constabulary's "Breathalyser Blitz"
H. Laurence Ross

Erratum: Noncriminal Deviance and Mental Hospitalization: Economic Theory and Evidence
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