Articles written by faculty and other members of the University of Chicago Law School community. Links to full-text are provided when available.
Submissions from 2018
Quantum Economics, Newtonian Economics, and Law, William Hubbard
Democratic Erosion and the Courts: Comparative Perspectives, Aziz Huq
Legal or Political Checks on Apex Criminality: An Essay on Constitutional Design, Aziz Huq
Separation of Powers Metatheory, Aziz Huq
Terrorism and Democratic Recession, Aziz Huq
The People against the Constitution, Aziz Huq
What is Discriminatory Intent?, Aziz Huq
Institutional Loyalties in Constitutional Law, Aziz Huq and David Fontana
How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy, Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg
The Coming Demise of Liberal Constitutionalism?, Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, and Mila Versteeg
Apparent Fault, Aziz Huq and Genevieve Lakier
Reforming Seminole Rock, Aneil Kovval
The Truth is Terrible, Brian Leiter
Semi-Confidential Settlements in Civil, Criminal, and Sexual Assault Cases, Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
The End of Bargaining in the Digital Age, Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
Police Violence in The Wire, Jonathan Masur and Richard H. McAdams
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Judicial Role, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
The Cross-Examination of Mayella Ewell, Richard H. McAdams
Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power, Suresh Naidu, Eric A. Posner, and E. Glen Weyl
Introduction to Decentralization and Development, Shitong Qiao and Richard A. Epstein
Criminal Justice, Inc., John Rappaport
The Cultural Evolution of National Constitutions, Daniel Rockmore, Fang Chen, Nick Foti, and Tom Ginsburg
The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting, Dorothy Shapiro Lund
Accountability Claims in Constitutional Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Liable Lies, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Causes and Consequences of Gerrymandering, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Measure of a Metric: The Debate Over Quantifying Partisan Gerrymandering, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee
National Security, National Origin, and the Constitution: 75 Years after EO9066, Geoffrey R. Stone
Roe v. Wade, Past, Present, and Future, Geoffrey R. Stone
Sexual Expression and Free Speech: How Our Values Have (D)evolved, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Origins of the Espionage Act of 1917: Was Judge Learned Hand's Understanding of the Act Defensible?, Geoffrey R. Stone
Why The Burger Court Mattered (reviewing The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right by Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse), David A. Strauss
The Vagrancy Law Challenge and the Vagaries of Legal Change, Laura Weinrib
Untangling the Radical Roots of America's Civil Liberties Settlement: Causation, Compromise, and the Taming of Free Speech, Laura Weinrib
The Marginal Revenue Rule in Cost-Benefit Analysis, David A. Weisbach, Daniel Hemel, and Jennifer Nou
Judicial Mistakes in Discovery, Diego Zambrano
The States' Interest in Federal Procedure, Diego Zambrano
Submissions from 2017
Does International Human Rights Law in African Courts Make a Difference?, Daniel Abebe
Bankruptcy on the Side, Kenneth M. Ayotte, Anthony Casey, and David A. Skeel Jr.
Bankruptcy's Quiet Revolution, Douglas G. Baird
Pari Passu Clauses and the Skeuomorph Problem in Contract Law, Douglas G. Baird
Priority Matters: Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, And The Costs Of Bankruptcy, Douglas G. Baird
Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Sovereign Immunity and the Constitutional Text, William Baude
Standing in the Shadow of Congress, William Baude
A Call for Developing a Field of Positive Legal Methodology, William Baude, Adam S. Chilton, and Anup Malani
Making Doctrinal Work More Rigorous: Lessons from Systematic Reviews, William Baude, Adam S. Chilton, and Anup Malani
The (Not So) Plain Meaning Rule, William Baude and Ryan D. Doerfler
The Law of Interpretation, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Black Hole Apparitions, Lisa Bernstein
Doing Gloss, Curtis A. Bradley
Historical Gloss, Constitutional Convention, and the Judicial Separation of Powers, Curtis A. Bradley and Neil S. Siegel
Corporate Bankruptcy Panel—Chapter 11 Cramdown Interest Rates: Till, Momentive, and the Proper Valuation Method, Ralph Brubaker, Anthony Casey, Susan Freeman, and Bruce A. Markell
The Divisive Supreme Court, Emily Buss
Heterosexuality as a Factor in the Long History of Women's Sports, Mary Anne Case
Consumer Bankruptcy Pathologies: Comment, Anthony Casey
Self-Driving Contracts, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
The Death of Rules and Standards, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
The Problem of Creative Collaboration, Anthony Casey and Andres Sawicki
Challenges To Reducing Discrimination And Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws, Amitabh Chandra, Michael Frakes, and Anup Malani
Civil Rights Laws: The Authors Reply, Amitabh Chandra, Michael Frakes, and Anup Malani
Book Review of The Continent of International Law: Explaining Agreement Design by Barbara Koremenos, Adam S. Chilton
Experimentally Testing the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties, Adam S. Chilton
Has Trump's Promised Assault on International Law Materialized?, Adam S. Chilton
The Political Ideologies of Law Clerks, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
Measuring Judicial Ideology Using Law Clerk Hiring, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Kyle Rozema, Jacob Goldin, and Maya Sen
Reciprocity and Public Opposition to Foreign Direct Investment, Adam S. Chilton, Helen V. Milner, and Dustin Tingley
The Influence of History on States’ Compliance with Human Rights Obligations, Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
The Limitations of Supply Chain Disclosure Regimes, Adam S. Chilton and Galit Sarfaty
Rights Without Resources: The Impact of Constitutional Social Rights on Social Spending, Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
"Pay It Forward" and Higher Education Subsidies: A Median Voter Model, Jennifer A. Delaney and Dhammika Dharmapala
"Pay It Forward" and Higher Education Subsidies: A Median Voter Model, Jennifer A. Delaney and Dhammika Dharmapala
The Forms and Limits of Constitutions as Political Insurance, Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg
The Absence of Method in Statutory Interpretation, Frank H. Easterbrook
When It Comes to Business, the Right and Left Sides of the Court Agree, Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner
Compounding Errors: Why Heightened Regulation and Taxation Are Bad Antidotes for Recessions and Income Inequality, Richard A. Epstein
Concepts before Percepts: The Central Place of Doctrine in Legal Scholarship, Richard A. Epstein
Disappointed Expectations: How The Supreme Court Failed to Clean Up Takings Law in Murr v. Wisconsin, Richard A. Epstein
Dual Sovereignty Under the Constitution: How Best to Protect States Against Federal Taxation and Regulation, Richard A. Epstein
Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty - A Guarded Retrospective, Richard A. Epstein
In Memoriam: Michael E. Levine, Richard A. Epstein
Missed Opportunities, Good Intentions: The Takings Decisions of Justice Antonin Scalia, Richard A. Epstein
My Methodological Flip-Flop on Individual Liberty, Richard A. Epstein
Review of Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think, Richard A. Epstein
The Misconceived Modern Attack on Right to Work Laws, Richard A. Epstein
Why Incentives for "Patent Holdout" Threaten to Dismantle FRAND, and Why It Matters, Richard A. Epstein and Kayvan B. Noroozi
Designing Executive Agencies for Congressional Control, Brian D. Feinstein
Searching for Fair Housing, Lee Anne Fennell
Book Review of A World of Struggle: How Power, Law and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy by David Kennedy, Tom Ginsburg
Constitutional Advice and Transnational Legal Order, Tom Ginsburg
Constitutions and Foreign Relations Law: The Dynamics of Substitutes and Complements, Tom Ginsburg
Introduction to Symposium on Sovereignty, Cyberspace, and Talinn Manual 2.0, Tom Ginsburg
Adam Usk (c 1360–1430), Richard H. Helmholz
Approaches to Law: Catholic and Protestant, Richard H. Helmholz
Book Review (reviewing The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription by Lawrin Armstrong), Richard H. Helmholz
Henry Charles Coote (1815-1885), Richard H. Helmholz
William Somner (c 1598–1669), Richard H. Helmholz
Can New York Publish President Trump's State Tax Returns?, Daniel Hemel
Pooling and Unpooling in the Uber Economy, Daniel Hemel
The President's Power to Tax, Daniel Hemel
Atlas Nods: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income, Daniel Hemel and Miranda Perry Fleischer
Chevron Step One-and-a-Half, Daniel Hemel and Aaron Nielson
Bayh-Dole Beyond Borders, Daniel Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Inequality and the Mortgage Interest Deduction, Daniel Hemel and Kyle Rozema
Taking Systemic Risk Seriously in Financial Regulation, M. Todd Henderson and James C. Spindler
How Patent Damages Skew Licensing Markets, Erik Hovenkamp and Jonathan Masur
The Effects of Twombly and Iqbal, William Hubbard
The Supreme Court of India: A People's Court?, William Hubbard, Aparna Chandra, and Sital Kalantry
Tribute to Omri Ben-Shahar, William Hubbard and Edward Morrison
Community-Led Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq
Preemption Deals, Aziz Huq
The Consequences of Disparate Policing: Evaluating Stop and Frisk as a Modality of Urban Policing, Aziz Huq
The President and the Detainees, Aziz Huq
Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness, Aziz Huq, Sam Corbett-Davies, Emma Pierson, and Avi Feller
Legitimating Practices: Revisiting the Predicates of Police Legitimacy, Aziz Huq, Rick Trinkner, and Jonathan Jackson
Extraterritorial Punishment, Emma Kaufman
The Design of Border Adjustments for Carbon Prices, Sam Kortum and David A. Weisbach
Confederate Statute Removal, Aneil Kovvali
Constitutional Avoidance and Presidential Power, Aneil Kovvali
How Do You Formalize a Tamale?: How to Ease Street Vendors’ Transition out of the Shadow Economy, Elizabeth Kregor
The Mood of the Cave: The Intellectual Legacy of Ideological Origins, Alison LaCroix
The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation, Darius Lakdawalla, Anup Malani, and Julian Reif
Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Arizona, and the Rise of the Anti-Classificatory First Amendment, Genevieve Lakier
Nietzsche's Naturalism and Nineteenth-Century Biology, Brian Leiter
Merit Goods, Calabresi Goods, and Rent-Seeking: In Honor of Guido Calabresi's The Future of Law and Economics, Saul Levmore
Merit Goods, Calabresi Goods, and Rent-Seeking: In Honor of Guido Calabresi's The Future of Law and Economics, Saul Levmore
Title VII to Tinder: Law's Antidiscrimination Asymmetry and Occasional Market Superiority, Saul Levmore
Threats and Criminal Deterrence in Several Dimensions, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
Book Review (reviewing Comparative Tort Law: Global Perspectives), Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Guide to Cuban Law and Legal Research, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Julienne Grant, Marisol Floren-Romero, Sergio D. Stone, and Cate Kellett
Quadratic Voting As An Input To Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur
Should Regulation Be Countercyclical?, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Reply to Commentators, Richard H. McAdams
The Need for a General Theory of Discrimination: A Comment on Katharine T. Bartlett & Mitu Gulati, Discrimination by Customers, Richard H. McAdams
Subdelegating Powers, Jennifer Nou
Liberal Internationalism and the Populist Backlash, Eric A. Posner
Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development?, Eric A. Posner
What Legal Authority Does the Fed Need During a Financial Crisis?, Eric A. Posner
Moral Commitments in Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Property Is Only Another Name For Monopoly, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Quadratic Voting and the Public Good: Introduction, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Legal Research and Practical Experience, Richard A. Posner
How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police, John Rappaport
The Structural Function of the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel of Choice, John Rappaport
Retroactive Taxation, Unfunded Pensions, and Shadow Bankruptcies, Julie Roin
Lessons from Litigating for Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Relegation of Polarization, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Concepts of Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Tom Ginsburg
Quadratic Election Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric A. Posner
Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments, Lior Strahilevitz and Omri Ben-Shahar
The Myth of Fourth Amendment Circularity, Lior Strahilevitz and Matthew B. Kugler
Fisher v. University of Texas and the Conservative Case for Affirmative Action, David A. Strauss
Measuring the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Indicators, Mila Versteeg and Tom Ginsburg
The Right to Work and the Right to Strike, Laura Weinrib
A Guide to the GOP Tax Plan – The Way to a Better Way, David A. Weisbach
Capital Gains Taxation and Corporate Investment, David A. Weisbach
New Equity Integration, David A. Weisbach
Should the United States Prefer a Cash Flow Tax to a VAT?, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2016
Cyberwar, International Politics, and Institutional Design, Daniel Abebe
A Nearly Perfect System for Convicting the Innocent, Albert W. Alschuler
A New Proposal for Intercreditor and Other Side Agreements, Kenneth M. Ayotte, Anthony Casey, and David A. Skeel Jr.
In Memoriam: Abner J. Mikva (1926-2016), Douglas G. Baird
Optimal Defaults in Consumer Markets, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Micro-Symposium: Richard Posner's 'What is Obviously Wrong with the Federal Judiciary', William Baude
Originalism's Bite, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment, William Baude and James Y. Stern
The Manipulation Of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, And Investment In Children's Human Capital, Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch
The Paradox of Access Justice, and Its Application to Mandatory Arbitration, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar and Kyle D. Logue
Personalizing Negligence Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Contracting over Privacy: Introduction, Omri Ben-Shahar and Lior Strahilevitz
Missing Judge Tinder, Gerald Bepko, Daniel E. Pulliam, Diane P. Wood, and Richard L. Young
Revisiting Procedure and Precedent in the WTO: An Analysis of US-Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Measure (China), Mostafa Beshkar and Adam S. Chilton
The Supreme Court as a Filter between International Law and American Constitutionalism, Curtis A. Bradley
Presidential War Powers as an Interactive Dynamic: International Law, Domestic Law, and Practice-Based Legal Change, Curtis A. Bradley and Jean Galbraith
Obama’s Aumf Legacy, Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith
The Assault on Postcommunist Courts, Bojan Bugaric and Tom Ginsburg
Developmental Jurisprudence, Emily Buss
Missing Sex Talk in the Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Cases, Mary Anne Case
Scalia as Procrustes for the Majority, Scalia as Cassandra in Dissent, Mary Anne Case
The Role of the Popes in the Invention of Complementarity and the Vatican's Anathematization of Gender, Mary Anne Case
Bankruptcy's Endowment Effect, Anthony Casey
Self-Driving Laws, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
Legal Institutions and IPO (Initial Public Offering) Puzzles, Ruoying Chen and Saul Levmore
The Motivations of the United States' Bilateral Investment Treaty Program, Adam S. Chilton
Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test, Adam S. Chilton and Omri Ben-Shahar
The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, and Maya Sen
Did the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Council Produce a Better ‘Jury’?, Adam S. Chilton and Robert Golan-Vilella
Do Constitutional Rights Make a Difference?, Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
International Law, Constitutional Law, and Public Support for Torture, Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Redundant Public-Private Enforcement, Zachary D. Clopton
Charging on the Margin, Paul Crane
Cross-border Tax Evasion Under a Unilateral FATCA Regime, Dhammika Dharmapala
Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Richard H. McAdams
The Costs and Benefits of Mandatory Securities Regulation: Evidence from Market Reactions to the JOBS Act of 2012, Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Introduction to the Special Issue on Taxation in a Global Economy, Dhammika Dharmapala and Panu Poutvaara
The Scrivener's Error, Ryan D. Doerfler
From Common Law to Environmental Protection: How the Modern Environmental Movement Has Lost Its Way, Richard A. Epstein
Innovation and Inequality: The Separability Thesis, Richard A. Epstein
Linguistic Relativism And The Decline Of The Rule Of Law, Richard A. Epstein
Property Rights And Governance Strategies: How Best To Deal With Land, Water, Intellectual Property, And Spectrum, Richard A. Epstein
Rational Basis Review And FDA Regulation: Why The Two Do Not Mix, Richard A. Epstein
Returning to Common-Law Principles of Insider Trading After United States v. Newman, Richard A. Epstein
The Deepening EU Blindness on Privacy: A Pointed Response to Professor Martin Scheinin, Richard A. Epstein
The Double-Edged Sword of State Constitutional Law, Richard A. Epstein
The ECJ's Fatal Imbalance, Richard A. Epstein
The Role of Guidances in Modern Administrative Procedure: The Case for De Novo Review, Richard A. Epstein
The Two Sides Of Magna Carta: How Good Government Sometimes Wins Out Over Public Choice, Richard A. Epstein
The Unfinished Business Of Horne v. Department Of Agriculture, Richard A. Epstein
The Mutual Dependency of Force and Law in American Foreign Policy, Richard A. Epstein and Mario Loyola
The Ends of Capitalism: An Introduction, Richard A. Epstein and Mario J. Rizzo
Open Letter On Ethical Norms In Intellectual Property Scholarship, Robin Feldman, Mark Lemley, Jonathan Masur, and Arti K. Rai
Because and Effect: Another Take on Inclusive Communities, Lee Anne Fennell
Fee Simple Obsolete, Lee Anne Fennell
Searching for Fair Housing, Lee Anne Fennell
Youth/Police Encounters On Chicago's South Side: Acknowledging The Realities, Craig B. Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, and Jamie Kalven
How To Study Constitution-Making: Hirschl, Elster, And The Seventh Inning Problem, Tom Ginsburg
On the Influence of Magna Carta and Other Cultural Relics, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, and Zachary Elkins
The Management of Staff by Federal Court of Appeal Judges, G. Mitu Gulati and Richard A. Posner
Beyond Liberty: Toward a History and Theory of Economic Coercion, Hiba Hafiz
Two Theories of Responsibility for Past Emissions of Carbon Dioxide, Michelle Hayner and David A. Weisbach
Clement Colmore (1550-1619), Richard H. Helmholz
John de Burgh (fl 1370-1398), Richard H. Helmholz
Magna Carta and the Law of Nature, Richard H. Helmholz
Review of Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860–1600. By D. L.d'Avray, Richard H. Helmholz
Review of Re-interpreting Blackstone’s Commentaries: A Seminal text in National and International contexts, Richard H. Helmholz
The Church and Magna Carta, Richard H. Helmholz
The Myth of Magna Carta Revisited, Richard H. Helmholz
Thomas Bever (1725–1791), Richard H. Helmholz
The Vanguard Case Reconsidered, Daniel Hemel
Trade and Tradeoffs: The Case of International Patent Exhaustion, Daniel Hemel
Knowledge Goods and Nation-States, Daniel Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Mining Manne's Vein, M. Todd Henderson
Information-Dissemination Law: The Regulation of How Market-Moving Information Is Revealed, M. Todd Henderson and Kevin S. Haeberle
A Fresh Look at Plausibility Pleading, William Hubbard
Sinking Costs to Force or Deter Settlement, William Hubbard
How the Fourth Amendment and the Separation of Powers Rise (and Fall) Together, Aziz Huq
The Constitutional Law of Agenda Control, Aziz Huq
The Predicates of Military Detention at Guantánamo: The Role of Individual Acts and Affiliations, Aziz Huq
The Psychology of Corporate Rights: Perception of Corporate Versus Individuals Rights to Religious Liberty, Privacy, and Free Speech, Aziz Huq, Moran Cerf, and Avital Mentovich
Litigating the Blue Wall of Silence: How to Challenge the Police Privilege to Delay Investigation, Aziz Huq and Richard H. McAdams
The Cycles of Separation-of-Powers Jurisprudence, Aziz Huq and Jon D. Michaels
A Modest Proposal for Justice Scalia's Seat, Aneil Kovvali
Book Review: Who Are You Calling Irrational? (reviewing Cass R. Sunstein, Why Nudge? (2014)), Aneil Kovvali
More Than One Way to Structure a Government: Arizona State Legislature, ASARCO and Hollingsworth as a Failed Trilogy, Aneil Kovvali
Innovation and Inequality: Conservative and Libertarian Perspectives, Elizabeth Kregor
Is Privacy Policy Language Irrelevant to Consumers?, Matthew B. Kugler and Lior Strahilevitz
Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter
The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy, Brian Leiter
CBA at the PTO, Jonathan Masur
Unquantified Benefits and the Problem of Regulation Under Uncertainty, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Close Enough for Government Work? Heien's Less-than-Reasonable Mistake of the Rule of Law, Richard H. McAdams
The Distributive Deficit in Law and Economics, Richard H. McAdams and Lee Anne Fennell
Strategic Rulemaking Disclosure, Jennifer Nou and Jed Stiglitz
Disgust or Equality? Sexual Orientation and Indian Law, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Introduction: Aspiration and the Capabilities List, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Legal Status of Whales: Capabilities, Entitlements and Culture, Martha Craven Nussbaum and Rachel Wichert Nussbaum
The Sin of Turning Away from Reality: An Interview with Father Krzysztof Charamsa, David Paternotte, Mary Anne Case, and Sarah Bracke
A Review (reviewing Stephen Breyer, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities), Eric A. Posner
Balance-of-Powers Arguments, the Structural Constitution, and the Problem of Executive "Underenforcement", Eric A. Posner
Book Review (reviewing Guido Calabresi, The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection), Eric A. Posner
Presidential Leadership and the Separation of Powers, Eric A. Posner
Supreme Court Justices’ Loyalty to the President, Eric A. Posner and Lee Epstein
Institutional Flip-Flops, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
The Votes of Other Judges, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Michael C. Dorf's "Review" of Richard A. Posner, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary, Richard A. Posner
What Is Obviously Wrong With The Federal Judiciary, Yet Eminently Curable: Part I, Richard A. Posner
What Is Obviously Wrong With The Federal Judiciary, Yet Eminently Curable: Part II, Richard A. Posner
Faux Originalism, Richard A. Posner and Eric A. Segall
An Insurance-Based Typology of Police Misconduct, John Rappaport
The Broken-Hearted Lover: Erwin Chemerinsky's Longings for a Mythical Court, Gerald Rosenberg
Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism, Benjamin Schonthal and Tom Ginsburg
Civil Rights in a Desegregating America, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Race, Place, and Power, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Contours of Constitutional Approval, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Mila Versteeg
In Memoriam: Abner J. Mikva (1926-2016), Geoffrey R. Stone
The Road to Roe, Geoffrey R. Stone
Actual Expectations of Privacy, Fourth Amendment Doctrine, and the Mosaic Theory, Lior Strahilevitz and Matthew B. Kugler
Does Meaning Matter?, David A. Strauss
In Memoriam: Abner J. Mikva (1926-2016), David A. Strauss
The Name Game, David A. Strauss
The Plain Language Court, David A. Strauss
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
Rethinking the Ban on Employer-Labor Organization Cooperation, Heather Whitney
Judicial Oversight of Covert Action in the United States and United Kingdom, Diane P. Wood, Chilton Davis Varner, and Douglas R. Young
A Comity of Errors: The Rise, Fall, and Return of International Comity in Transnational Discovery, Diego Zambrano
Submissions from 2015
Criminal Corruption: Why Broad Definitions of Bribery Make Things Worse, Albert W. Alschuler
Chapter 11's Expanding Universe, Douglas G. Baird
The Rights of Secured Creditors after ResCap, Douglas G. Baird
Foreword: The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket, William Baude
Is Originalism Our Law?, William Baude
State Regulation and the Necessary and Proper Clause, William Baude
Learning During a Crisis: The SARS Epidemic in Taiwan, Daniel Bennett, Chun-fang Chiang, and Anup Malani
Regulation of Food Safety by Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar
Preface to Symposium on Law and Economics of Consumer Protection, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ruoying Chen
The Unintended Effects of Government-Subsidized Weather Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar and Kyle D. Logue
Coping with the Failure of Mandated Disclosure, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider
Beyond Relational Contracts: Social Capital and Network Governance in Procurement Contracts, Lisa Bernstein
Custom in the Courts, Lisa Bernstein
Private Orderings, Lisa Bernstein, Alan B. Morrison, and J. Mark Ramseyer
Not What You Wanted to Know: The Real Deal and the Paper Deal in Consumer Contracts - Comment on the Work of Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Lisa Bernstein and Hagay Volvovsky
AGORA: Reflections on Zivotofsky v. Kerry : Historical Gloss, the Recognition Power, and Judicial Review, Curtis A. Bradley
Foreign Relations Law and the Purported Shift Away From “Exceptionalism”, Curtis A. Bradley
Constructed Constraint and the Constitutional Text, Curtis A. Bradley and Neil S. Siegel
Introduction to AGORA: Reflections on Zivotofsky v. Kerry, Curtis A. Bradley and Carlos M. Vazquez
Escaping the American Blot? A Comparative Look at Federalism in Australia and the United States through the Lens of Family Law, Emily Buss and William Buss
Perfectionism And Fundamentalism In The Application Of The German Abortion Laws, Mary Anne Case
When Someday is Today: Carrying Forward the History of Old Age and Inheritance into the Age of Medicaid, Mary Anne Case
Why "Live-And-Let-Live" Is Not a Viable Solution to the Difficult Problems of Religious Accommodation in the Age of Sexual Civil Rights, Mary Anne Case
The New Corporate Web: Tailored Entity Partitions and Creditors’ Selective Enforcement, Anthony Casey
The Boundaries of 'Team' Production of Corporate Governance, Anthony Casey and M. Todd Henderson
A Simple Theory of Complex Valuation, Anthony Casey and Julia Simon-Kerr
Reconsidering the Motivations of the United States' Bilateral Investment Treaty Program, Adam S. Chilton
The Laws of War and Public Opinion: An Experimental Study, Adam S. Chilton
Challenging the Randomness of Panel Assignments in the Federal Courts of Appeals, Adam S. Chilton and Marin Levy
An Empirical Study of Political Bias in Legal Scholarship, Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
The Political Economy of Inward FDI: Opposition to Chinese Mergers & Acquisitions, Adam S. Chilton, Dustin Tingley, Christopher Xu, and Helen V. Milner
The Failure of Constitutional Torture Prohibitions, Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Comparative Institutional Competence, Adam S. Chilton and Christopher A. Whytock
The Role of Competence in Promotions from the Lower Federal Courts, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Eric A. Posner
Transnational Class Actions in the Shadow of Preclusion, Zachary D. Clopton
Interest Deductions in a Multijurisdictional World, Dhammika Dharmapala and Mihir A. Desai
Revisiting the Ideology Rankings of Supreme Court Justices, Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner
The Best for Last: The Timing of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner
An Unapologetic Defense of the Classical Liberal Constitution, Richard A. Epstein
Contractual Solutions for Employment Law Problems, Richard A. Epstein
Entick v. Carrington and Boyd v. United States: Keeping the Fourth and Fifth Amendments on Track, Richard A. Epstein
How Spontaneous? How Regulated?: The Evolution Of Property Rights Systems, Richard A. Epstein
Inevitability in Law and Literature: A Strained Relationship, Richard A. Epstein
Introduction to Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property, Richard A. Epstein
The Political Economy of Crowdsourcing: Markets for Labor, Rewards, and Securities, Richard A. Epstein
Consent Procedures and American Federalism, Bridget Fahey
Health Care Exchanges and the Disaggregation of States in the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Bridget Fahey
Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell
Co-location, Co-location, Co-location: Land Use and Housing Priorities Reimagined, Lee Anne Fennell
Do Not Cite or Circulate, Lee Anne Fennell
Slicing Spontaneity, Lee Anne Fennell
Written Constitutions Around the World, Tom Ginsburg
Constitutional Interpretation in Lawmaking: China's Invisible Constitutional Enforcement Mechanism, Tom Ginsburg and Yan Lin
Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All?, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton
Arthur Duck (1580-1648), Richard H. Helmholz
Richard Rudhale (c 1415-1476), Richard H. Helmholz
Sir George Lee (c 1700-1758), Richard H. Helmholz
Is Abood Irrelevant?, Daniel Hemel and David Louk
Judicial Noncompliance with Mandatory Procedural Rules under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, M. Todd Henderson and William Hubbard
Offensive Disclosure: How Voluntary Disclosure Can Increase Returns from Insider Trading, M. Todd Henderson, Alan Jagolinzer, and Karl Muller
The Discovery Sombrero and Other Metaphors for Litigation, William Hubbard
Yong Shik Lee, "Call for a New Analytical Model for Law and Development": A Comment, William Hubbard
Judicial Independence and the Rationing of Constitutional Remedies, Aziz Huq
The Difficulties of Democratic Mercy, Aziz Huq
The Article III Problem in Bankruptcy, Aziz Huq and Anthony Casey
Food Trucks, Incremental Innovation, and Regulatory Ruts, Elizabeth Kregor
The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment, Alison LaCroix
The Invention of Low-Value Speech, Genevieve Lakier
Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature, Brian Leiter
Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine, Brian Leiter
Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism, Brian Leiter
Normativity for Naturalists, Brian Leiter
Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory, Brian Leiter
Inequality in the Twenty-First Century (reviewing Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)), Saul Levmore
Why Are Foods Not Even As Safe as Bridges?, Saul Levmore
Interpreting Pre-Trends as Anticipation: Impact on Estimated Treatment Effects from Tort Reform, Anup Malani and Julian Reif
An Administrative Typology of Consumer Protection, Jonathan Masur
The Intractable Normative Complexities of Valuing Foreign Lives, Jonathan Masur
The Use and Misuse of Patent Licenses, Jonathan Masur
The Overlooked Benefits of the Blackstone Principle, Jonathan Masur and John Bronsteen
Deference Mistakes, Jonathan Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Toward a Pigouvian State, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Book Review (reviewing Miranda Wilson, Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2014)), Richard H. McAdams
Riley’s Less Obvious Tradeoffs: Forgoing Scope-Limited Searches, Richard H. McAdams
The Law of Police, Richard H. McAdams, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Nuno Garoupa
Do Attorney Surveys Measure Judicial Performance or Respondent Ideology? Evidence from Online Evaluations, Thomas J. Miles
Introduction: Rational Choice Approach to Judicial Behavior, Thomas J. Miles and Omri Ben-Shahar
The Need for Better Evidence to Evaluate the Health & Economic Benefits of India's Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, Arindam Nandi, E. Phoebe Holtzman, Anup Malani, and Ramanan Laxminarayan
Agency Coordinators Outside of the Executive Branch, Jennifer Nou
Designing Regulatory Experiments, Jennifer Nou
Intra-Agency Coordination, Jennifer Nou
Regulatory Textualism, Jennifer Nou
Philosophy and Economics in the Capabilities Approach: An Essential Dialogue, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Book Review (reviewing Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection (2014)), Eric A. Posner
How Do Bank Regulators Determine Capital-Adequacy Requirements?, Eric A. Posner
A Framework for Bailout Regulation, Eric A. Posner and Anthony Casey
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulations: A Response to Criticisms, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Comment on Professor Gluck's "Imperfect Statutes, Imperfect Courts", Richard A. Posner
Eighteen Years On: A Re-Review (reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner
On Hearsay, Richard A. Posner
The Law of the Lands (review of Stephen Breyer, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities), Richard A. Posner
Second-Order Regulation of Law Enforcement, John Rappaport
Unbundling Criminal Trial Rights, John Rappaport
Planning Past Pensions, Julie Roin
The Surprising Resilience of State Opposition to Abortion: The Supreme Court, Federalism, and the Role of Intense Minorities in the U.S. Politics System, Gerald Rosenberg
Don't Ask, Must Tell—and Other Combinations, Adam M. Samaha and Lior Strahilevitz
Rebellion: The Courts of Appeals’ Latest Anti-Booker Backlash, Alison Siegler
Aligning Campaign Finance Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Arizona and Anti-Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Political Powerlessness, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee
The Realities of Electoral Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Eric McGhee, and Steven Rogers
The View from Inside the NSA Review Group, Geoffrey R. Stone
Does the Constitution Mean What It Says?, David A. Strauss
The Equality Taboo, David A. Strauss
Civil Liberties Outside the Courts, Laura Weinrib
Distributionally Weighted Cost–Benefit Analysis: Welfare Economics Meets Organizational Design, David A. Weisbach
Introduction: Legal Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, David A. Weisbach
The Use of Neutralities in International Tax Policy, David A. Weisbach
Judge of All Trades: Further Thoughts on Specialized Courts, Diane P. Wood
Legal Scholarship for Judges, Diane P. Wood
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
Regarding Re's Revisionism: Notes on 'The Due Process Exclusionary Rule', Albert W. Alschuler
The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014: A Constitutional Response to Shelby County, Samuel Bagenstos, Gabriel Chin, Gilda Daniels, and Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Boards-R-Us: Reconceptualizing Corporate Boards, Stephen Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson
One-and-a-Half Badges of Fraud, Douglas G. Baird
Trial Court Budgets, the Enforcer's Dilemma, and the Rule of Law, Scott Baker and Anup Malani
Exit from Contract, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Sharing the Necessary and Proper Clause, William Baude
Regulation Through Boilerplate: An Apologia (reviewing Margaret Jane Radin, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law (2013)), Omri Ben-Shahar
Tribute to Thomas J. Miles, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Futility of Cost Benefit Analysis in Financial Disclosure Regulation, Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider
Foreword to Reviews (Books on the Law of Contracts), Lisa Bernstein
What Price Fairness When Security Is at Stake? Police Legitimacy in South Africa, Ben Bradford, Aziz Huq, Jonathan Jackson, and Benjamin Roberts
Federalism, Treaty Implementation, and Political Process: Bond v United States, Curtis A. Bradley
Treaty Termination and Historical Gloss, Curtis A. Bradley
After Recess: Historical Practice, Textual Ambiguity, and Constitutional Adverse Possession, Curtis A. Bradley and Neil S. Siegel
Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
Who Does Bankruptcy? Mapping Pension Impairment in Chapter 9, Vincent Buccola
An Off-Label Use of Parental Rights? The Unanticipated Doctrinal Antidote for Professor Mnookin's Diagnosis, Emily Buss
The Ladies? Forget About Them: A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Originalism, Mary Anne Case
Auction Design for Claims Trading, Anthony Casey
Noise Reduction: The Screening Value of Qui Tam, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
Partition and Revelation, Yun-chien Chang and Lee Anne Fennell
The Influence of International Human Rights Agreements on Public Opinion: An Experimental Study, Adam S. Chilton
Supplying Compliance: Why and When the US Complies with WTO Rulings, Adam S. Chilton and Rachel Brewster
Altruism Exchanges and the Kidney Shortage, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Eric A. Posner
Replacing the Presumption against Extraterritoriality, Zachary D. Clopton
State Law Litigation of International Norms: Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions, Zachary D. Clopton
Extraterritoriality and Comparative Institutional Analysis: A Response to Professor Meyer, Zachary D. Clopton and Paul Bartholomew Quintans
Regulation of GSEs, Administrative Law, and Fiduciary Duties, Charles Cooper, M. Todd Henderson, Troy Paredes, and Mario J. Rizzo
Can Lawyers Stay in the Driver's Seat?, Daniel G. Currell and M. Todd Henderson
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: A Simple Conceptual Framework, Dhammika Dharmapala
What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature, Dhammika Dharmapala
Mead as (Mostly) Moot: Predictive Interpretation in Administrative Law, Ryan D. Doerfler
Constitutional Outliers, Justin Driver
Reactionary Rhetoric and Liberal Legal Academia, Justin Driver
Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto, Justin Driver
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: On the Hybridization of Constitutional Form, Zachary Elkins, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Tom Ginsburg
Constitute: The World’s Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, Robert Shaffer, and Juan F. Sequeda
Beyond Textualism: Why Originalist Theory Must Apply General Principles of Interpretation to Constitutional Law, Richard A. Epstein
Modern Environmentalists Overreach: A Plea for Understanding Background Common Law Principles, Richard A. Epstein
Public Accommodations Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Why Freedom of Association Counts as a Human Right, Richard A. Epstein
Redistribution Within Collective Organizations: What Corporations, Condominiums and Unions Tell Us about the Proper Use of Government Power, Richard A. Epstein
The Common Law Foundations of the Takings Clause: The Disconnect Between Public and Private Law, Richard A. Epstein
The Use and Limits of Self-Valuation Systems, Richard A. Epstein
Forcings, Lee Anne Fennell
Exactions Creep, Lee Anne Fennell and Eduardo Peñalver
Guarding the Subjective Premium: Condemnation Risk Discounts in the Housing Market, Sebastien Gay and Nadia Nasser-Ghodsi
Chaining the Dog of War: Comparative Data, Tom Ginsburg
Fordelene Ved Evolusjon I En Revolusjonær Tidsalder: Norges varige grunnlov I et komparativt perspektiv, Tom Ginsburg
Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law, Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard H. McAdams
The Teaching/Research Tradeoff in Law: Data from the Right Tail, Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles
We the Peoples: The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles, Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Rockmore, and Nick Foti
Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review?, Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
Sir Daniel Dun (c. 1545-1617), Richard H. Helmholz
William of Drogheda (c 1200-1245), Richard H. Helmholz
Reconceptualizing Corporate Boards, M. Todd Henderson and Stephen Bainbridge
Book Review (reviewing Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk (2013)), 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 Negotiated Structural Constitution, Aziz Huq
What Can Constitutions Do?: The Afghan Case, Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg
Book Review, Feminist Criminology by Claire Renzetti, Emma Kaufman
Rules and Standards When Compliance Costs Are Private Information, Maciej H. Kotowski, David A. Weisbach, and Richard Zeckhauser
Could the SEC Save Basic Through Rulemaking?, Aneil Kovvali
Power Games, Aneil Kovvali
Redeeming Bond?, Alison LaCroix
The Shadow Powers of Article I, Alison LaCroix
Sport as Speech, Genevieve Lakier
Incentives for Reporting Disease Outbreaks, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Julian Reif, and Anup Malani
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, Brian Leiter
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker, Steven Levitt and Thomas J. Miles
From Helmets to Savings and Inheritance Taxes: Regulatory Intensity, Information Revelation, and Internalities, Saul Levmore
Internality Regulation through Public Choice, Saul Levmore
Renegotiation Design by Contract, Anup Malani and Richard T. Holden
[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
Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law, Jonathan Masur and Christopher Buccafusco
Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter? A Reevaluation of Explanations for Judicial Independence, James Melton and Tom Ginsburg
Does the “Community Prosecution” Strategy Reduce Crime? A Test of Chicago's Experience, Thomas J. Miles