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 2010
The Classical Liberal Alternative to Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism (reviewing Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, eds.,The Constitution in 2020 (2009)), Richard A. Epstein
The Spurious Constitutional Distinction Between Takings and Regulation, Richard A. Epstein
Toward a General Theory of Tort Law: Strict Liability in Context, Richard A. Epstein
What Tort Theory Tells Us about Federal Preemption: The Tragic Saga of Wyeth v. Levine, Richard A. Epstein
Why I Will Never Be a Keynesian, Richard A. Epstein
Why We Need Term Limits for Congress: Four in the Senate, Ten in the House, Richard A. Epstein
The Dynasty Advantage: Family Ties in Congressional Elections, Brian D. Feinstein
Controlling Residential Stakes, Lee Anne Fennell and Julie Roin
Modeling the Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Selection and Jury Verdicts, Roger Ford
Eastphalia and Asian Regionalism, Tom Ginsburg
Eastphalia as the Perfection of Westphalia, Tom Ginsburg
Lawrence M. Friedman’s Comparative Law, With Notes On Japan, Tom Ginsburg
Studying Japanese Law Because It's There, Tom Ginsburg
The Arbitrator as Agent: Why Deferential Review is Not Always Pro-Arbitration, Tom Ginsburg
Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Tom Ginsburg, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Zachary Elkins
Subconstitutionalism, Tom Ginsburg and Eric A. Posner
Neoliberal Penality: A Brief Genealogy, Bernard E. Harcourt
Book Review (reviewing John H. Langbein, R.L. Lerner, & Bruce Smith, History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009)), Richard H. Helmholz
Scandalum in the Medieval Canon Law and in the English Ecclesiastical Courts, Richard H. Helmholz
Empty Creditors and Debt Exchanges, Daniel Hemel
Review of Nigel D. White, Democracy Goes to War (2009), Daniel Hemel
Tyranny on Trial: Regional Courts Crack Down on Mugabe’s Land “Reform”, Daniel Hemel and Andrew Schalkwyk
Justifying Jones, M. Todd Henderson
Predicting Crime, M. Todd Henderson, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz
Against National Security Exceptionalism, Aziz Huq
Easterbrook on Academic Freedom, Aziz Huq
Modeling Terrorist Radicalization The New Face of Discrimination: Muslim in America, Aziz Huq
What Good is Habeas?, Aziz Huq
Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counterterrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans, Aziz Huq, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Tom R. Tyler
Lincoln the Dictator, Dennis J. Hutchinson
The Future of Taxation, Joseph Isenbergh
History Lesson, Part 1, Todd Ito
Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn E. Getgen, and Steven Arrigg Koh
Temporal Imperialism, Alison LaCroix
The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology, Alison LaCroix
Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect?, Brian Leiter
Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: Comment on Professor Szubka, Brian Leiter
Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant to Legal Regulation, Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
Ambiguous Statutes, Saul Levmore
Book Review (reviewing Mark R. Reiff, Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (2005)), Saul Levmore
Interest Groups and the Problem with Incrementalism, Saul Levmore
Eminent Domain after Kelo, Saul Levmore and Ilya Somin
Ambiguity about Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation, Anup Malani, Ward Farnsworth, and Dustin F. Guzior
Booker Reconsidered, Jonathan Masur
Costly Screens and Patent Examination, Jonathan Masur
Retribution and the Experience of Punishment, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
Welfare as Happiness, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
The Institutional Dynamics of Transition Relief, Jonathan Masur and Jonathan Remy Nash
Against Feasibility Analysis, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Economic Costs of Inequality, Richard H. McAdams
Dupes and Losers in Mail Fraud, Thomas J. Miles
Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Financial Institutions (discussion remarks), Edward Morrison
Private Regulation and Foreign Conduct, Adam I. Muchmore
Do Judges Cherry Pick Precedents to Justify Extra-legal Decisions?: A Statistical Examination, Anthony Niblett
The Evolution of a Legal Rule, Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner, and Andrei Shleifer
A Right to Marry?, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Deliberation and Insight: Bloch v. Frischholz and the 'Chicago School' of Judicial Behavior, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Equality and Love at the End of The Marriage of Figaro: Forging Democratic Emotions, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Liberalism, Development, and Gender: Response to the Papers, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Reply to Diane Wood, Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Illusory Right to Abandon, Eduardo Peñalver
Easterbrook on Copyright, Randal C. Picker
Evaluating the Effects of International Law: Next Steps, Eric A. Posner
ProCD v. Zeidenberg and Cognitive Overload in Contractual Bargaining, Eric A. Posner
Professionals or Politicians?: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Judiciary, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Economic Foundations of the Law of the Sea, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Divide and Conquer, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule, and Kathryn E. Spier
From the New Institutional Economics to Organization Economics: With Applications to Corporate Governance, Government Agencies, and Legal Institutions, Richard A. Posner
Judicial Review, a Comparative Perspective: Israel, Canada, and the United States, Richard A. Posner
Kafka: The Writer as Lawyer (reviewing Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner, eds., Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (2009)), Richard A. Posner
On the Receipt of the Ronald H. Coase Medal: Uncertainty, The Economic Crisis, and the Future of Law and Economics, Richard A. Posner
Reply to Comments, Richard A. Posner
Some Realism about Judges: A Reply to Edwards and Livermore, Richard A. Posner
The Judiciary and the Academy: A Fraught Relationship, Richard A. Posner
Inferring the Winning Party in the Supreme Court from the Pattern of Questioning at Oral Argument, Richard A. Posner, William M. Landes, and Lee Epstein
What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation, Richard A. Posner and Albert H. Yoon
The Limits of Textualism: Cooper v. IBM Personal Pension Plan, Julie Roin
Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit: Introduction, Julie Roin, Lee Anne Fennell, and Richard A. Epstein
The Cost of Time: Haphazard Discounting and the Undervaluation of Regulatory Benefits, Arden Rowell
Low Stakes and Constitutional Interpretation, Adam M. Samaha
On Law's Tiebreakers, Adam M. Samaha
Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972, Eric Schickler, Kathryn Pearson, and Brian D. Feinstein
Justiciability and the Role of Courts in Adequacy Litigation: Preserving the Constitutional Right to Education, Julia Simon-Kerr and Robynn K. Sturm
American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut: The Government Must Leave to the People the Evaluation of Ideas, Geoffrey R. Stone
Honoring the Legacies of Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Second Great Awakening: A Christian Nation?, Geoffrey R. Stone
Pseudonymous Litigation, Lior Strahilevitz
Reunifying Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
The Right to Abandon, Lior Strahilevitz
Is Carolene Products Obsolete?, David A. Strauss
Statutes' Domains and Judges' Prerogatives, David A. Strauss
Trade and Carbon Taxes, David A. Weisbach
The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change, David A. Weisbach, Louis Kaplow, and Elisabeth Moyer
Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach, Diane P. Wood
A Market-Based Regulatory Policy to Avoid Financial Crises, Luigi Zingales
Submissions from 2009
Great Power Politics and the Structure of Foreign Relations Law, Daniel Abebe
Canonizing the Civil Rights Revolution: The People and the Poll Tax, Bruce Ackerman and Jennifer Nou
Properties of community, Gregory Alexander and Eduardo Peñalver
From Blackstone to Holmes: The Revolt against Natural Law Historic Proponents and the Critics of Higher Law, Albert Alschuler
Herring v. United States: A Minnow or a Shark Term Paper, Albert W. Alschuler
Two Ways to Think about the Punishment of Corporations, Albert W. Alschuler
Harm, Ambiguity, and the Regulation of Illegal Contracts, Adam Badawi
Interpretive Preferences and the Limits of the New Formalism, Adam Badawi
The Bankruptcy Exchange, Douglas G. Baird
Debunking Blackstonian Copyright (reviewing Neil Weinstock Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (2008)), Shyam Balganesh
Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, Shyam Balganesh
A Bargaining Power Theory of Default Rules, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Myth of 'Opportunity to Read' in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar
An Information Theory of Willful Breach, Omri Ben-Shahar and Oren Bar-Gill
The Prisoners' (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, Omri Ben-Shahar and Oren Bar-Gill
Fault in American Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Foreword: Fault in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Foreign Officials and Sovereign Immunity in U.S. Courts, Curtis A. Bradley
The Bush Administration and International Law: Too Much Lawyering and Too Little Diplomacy, Curtis A. Bradley
The United States, Israel & Unlawful Combatants, Curtis A. Bradley
Rethinking the Connection Between Developmental Science and Juvenile Justice, Emily Buss
What the Law Should (And Should Not) Learn from Child Development Research, Emily Buss
Feminist Fundamentalism on the Frontier between Government and Family Responsibility for Children, Mary Anne Case
A Global Architecture for Medical Counter-Measure Preparedness against Bioviolence, Zachary D. Clopton and Barry Kellman
Making Sense of Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox
The Rights of Migrants: An Optimal Contract Framework, Adam B. Cox and Eric A. Posner
The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez
Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer v. United States and Its Significance, Paul Crane
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment, Dhammika Dharmapala and Mihir A. Desai
Which Countries Have Become Tax Havens?, Dhammika Dharmapala and James R. Hines Jr.
The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance, Frank H. Easterbrook
Activity Levels under the Hand Formula: A Comment on Gilo and Guttel, Richard A. Epstein
Against Permititis: Why Voluntary Organizations Should Regulate the Use of Cancer Drugs, Richard A. Epstein
A Speech on the Structural Constitution and the Stimulus Program, Richard A. Epstein
Lessons from the Common Law of Reasonable Expectations, Richard A. Epstein
Monopolization Follies: The Dangers of Structural Remedies under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Richard A. Epstein
Not so Private Takings: A Response to Abraham Bell’s Private Takings, Richard A. Epstein
Overtreated, or Overregulated? (reviewing Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (2008)), Richard A. Epstein
Political Bankruptcies: How Chrysler and GM Have Changed the Rules of the Game, Richard A. Epstein
Privacy and the Third Hand: Lessons from the Common Law of Reasonable Expectations, Richard A. Epstein
Property Rights, State of Nature Theory, and Environmental Protection, Richard A. Epstein
Protect Us, Lord, from Title VII: A Response to Gelbach, Klick, and Wexler, Richard A. Epstein
Public Use in a Post-Kelo World, Richard A. Epstein
The Case for Field Preemption of State Laws in Drug Cases, Richard A. Epstein
The Disintegration of Intellectual Property - A Classical Liberal Response to a Premature Obituary, Richard A. Epstein
The Going Private Phenomenon: Causes and Implications, Richard A. Epstein and M. Todd Henderson
Debate, Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado about Nothing?, Richard A. Epstein, Gregory S. Parks, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Virtues of Going Slow, Richard A. Epstein and Amanda M. Rose
Adjusting Alienability, Lee Anne Fennell
Odds and Ends: An Epstein-Inspired Look at Luck, Lee Anne Fennell
Scaling Property with Professor Ellickson, Lee Anne Fennell
Willpower and Legal Policy, Lee Anne Fennell
Settlements You Can't Sign: Ethical Implications of Chicago's Machinery of Denial, Craig B. Futterman, Jason E. Huber, and Pier Petersen
Book Review (reviewing Lisa Hilbink, Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile (2007)), Tom Ginsburg
Constitutional Afterlife: The Continuing Impact of Thailand's Post-Political Constitution, Tom Ginsburg
International Delegation and State Disaggregation, Tom Ginsburg
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law: A Reply to Eyal Benvenisti and George Downs, Tom Ginsburg
The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court, Tom Ginsburg
The Effects of Liberalization on Litigation: Notes Toward a Theory in the Context of Japan, Tom Ginsburg
The Future of Law and Development, Tom Ginsburg
The Relationship Between Constitutional and International Devices to Protect Minority Rights, Tom Ginsburg
Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?, Tom Ginsburg, Justin Blount, and Zachary Elkins
Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
Judicial Audiences and Reputation: Perspectives from Comparative Law, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
Reputation, Information and the Organization of the Judiciary, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
Effects of Liberalization on Litigation: Notes Toward a Theory in the Context of Japan, Tom Ginsburg and Glenn Hoetker
Meditaciones Postmodernas Sobre el Castigo: Acerca de los Límites de la Razón y de las Virtudes de la Aletoriedad (Una Polémica y un Manifiesto para el Siglo XXI), Bernard E. Harcourt
Book Review (reviewing James Q. Whitman, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (2008)), Richard H. Helmholz
Response to Hadley Arkes, Richard H. Helmholz
Positive-Sum Politics: The Path to Partnership in U.S.-Russian Relations, Daniel Hemel
Credit Derivatives are Not Insurance, M. Todd Henderson
The Impotence of Delaware's Taxes: A Response to Barzuza's 'Delaware's Compensation', M. Todd Henderson
The Nanny Corporation, M. Todd Henderson
Two Visions of Corporate Law, M. Todd Henderson
One Hat Too Many - Investment Desegregation in Private Equity, M. Todd Henderson and William A. Birdthistle
Corporate Philanthropy and the Market for Altruism, M. Todd Henderson and Anup Malani
May it Please the Country (reviewing Brian McGinty, Lincoln and the Court (2008), Burt Solomon, FDR v. The Constitution (2009), and Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite: 1789-2008 (2009)), Aziz Huq and Eric Lane
The Founders' Fiction: Reading Eighteenth-Century Novels in Company with the American Revolutionaries, Alison LaCroix
Book Review (reviewing Tamsin Shaw, Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism (2007)), Brian Leiter
Explaining Theoretical Disagreement, Brian Leiter
The Radicalism of Legal Positivism, Brian Leiter
You Too Can Create a Simulation Exercise (or Even a Course), Jeff Leslie, James F. Hogg, Daniel Jaffe, and Praveen Kosuri
Stipulated Damages, Super-Strict Liability, and Mitigation in Contract Law, Saul Levmore
Gun Control after Heller: Threats and Sideshows from a Social Welfare Perspective, Jens Ludwig, Adam M. Samaha, and Philip J. Cook
The PTO's Future: Reform or Abolition?, Jonathan Masur
Describing the Effect of Adaptation on Settlement, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
Happiness and Punishment, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
A New Proposal for Loan Modifications, Christopher Mayer, Edward Morrison, and Tomasz Piskorski
Beyond the Prisoners' Dilemma: Coordination, Game Theory, and Law, Richard H. McAdams
Private Enforcers of International Law and Norms, Richard H. McAdams
Richard Epstein and Discrimination Law, Richard H. McAdams
Belief in a Just World, Blaming the Victim, and Hate Crime Statutes, Richard H. McAdams, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Nuno Garoupa
Depoliticizing Administrative Law, Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein
Bargaining around Bankruptcy: Small Business Workouts and State Law, Edward Morrison
Is the Bankruptcy Code an Adequate Mechanism for Resolving the Distress of Systemically Important Institutions?, Edward Morrison
Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11, Edward Morrison and Kenneth M. Ayotte
Privatizing Democracy: Promoting Election Integrity through Procurement Contracts, Jennifer Nou
‘A Piece of the Pie’: Women, India, and ‘the West', Martha Craven Nussbaum
Capabilities and Constitutional Law: ‘Perception’ Against Lofty Formalism, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on Equal Respect, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Perché sbaglia l’anti-religioso, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Ralph Cohen and the Dialogue between Philosophy and Literature, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Reply, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Land Virtues, Eduardo Peñalver
Properties of Community, Eduardo Peñalver and Gregory Alexander
The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly, Randal C. Picker
Erga Omnes Norms, Institutionalization, and Constitutionalism in International Law, Eric A. Posner
Fault in Contract Law, Eric A. Posner
New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Reply to Professors Sinden, Kysar, and Driesen, Eric A. Posner and Matthew D. Adler
Are Judges Overpaid?: A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary Debate, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Judicial Evaluations and Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts and Their Judges, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Should Greenhouse Gas Permits be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Crisis Governance in the Administrative State: 9/11 and the Financial Meltdown of 2008, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
A Loan Modification Approach to the Housing Crisis, Eric A. Posner and Luigi Zingales
Are American CEOS Overpaid, and, If So, What If Anything Should Be Done About It?, Richard A. Posner
Financial Regulatory Reform:The Politics of Denial, Richard A. Posner
Let Us Never Blame a Contract Breaker, Richard A. Posner
National Security and Constitutional Law Precis: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, Richard A. Posner
Rejoinder, Richard A. Posner
The Economics of Presidential Pardons and Commutations, Richard A. Posner
Uncertainty Aversion and Economic Depressions, Richard A. Posner
Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study, Richard A. Posner and William M. Landes
Antitrust in the Not-for-Profit Sector, Richard A. Posner and Tomas J. Philpson
'Much Ado About Nothing'?: The Emptiness of Rights' Claims in the Twenty-First Century United States, Gerald Rosenberg
Romancing the Court, Gerald Rosenberg
Saul Alinsky and the Litigation Campaign to Win the Right to Same-Sex Marriage, Gerald Rosenberg
Wonder of It All, Gerald Rosenberg
Randomization in Adjudication, Adam M. Samaha
Disparities and Discretion in Fast-Track Sentencing, Alison Siegler
A New Systematic Explanation of the Types and Mitigating Effects of Exculpatory Defenses, Jim Staihar
Book Review (reviewing Helen J. Knowles, The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty (2009)), Geoffrey R. Stone
Free Speech and National Security, Geoffrey R. Stone
Obama's America: Liberty, Geoffrey R. Stone
Same-Sex Marriage and the Establishment Clause, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Perils of Religious Passion: A Response to Professor Samuel Calhoun, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Death of Judicial Conservatism, David A. Strauss
The Modernizing Mission of Judicial Review, David A. Strauss
From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law, Laura Weinrib
Toward a New Approach to Disability Law, David A. Weisbach
The Design of a Carbon Tax, David A. Weisbach and Gilbert E. Metcalf
Will a New Administration Mean a New Policy on Climate Change?, David A. Weisbach and Gilbert E. Metcalf
Climate Change and Discounting the Future: A Guide for the Perplexed, David A. Weisbach and Cass R. Sunstein
Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Interaction between Judges and Economic Evidence, Diane P. Wood
The Changing Face of Diversity Jurisdiction, Diane P. Wood
Submissions from 2008
Plea Bargaining and the Death Penalty, Albert Alschuler
Studying the Exclusionary Rule: An Empirical Classic, Albert Alschuler
Bankruptcy's Undiscovered Country, Douglas G. Baird
The Holmesian Bad Man's First Critic, Douglas G. Baird
Other People's Money, Douglas G. Baird and M. Todd Henderson
Demystifying the Right to Exclude: Of Property, Inviolability, and Automatic Injunctions, Shyam Balganesh
The Judgment Power, William Baude
How Bad are Mandatory Arbitration Terms?, Omri Ben-Shahar
Self-Execution and Treaty Duality, Curtis A. Bradley
Terror and the Law, Curtis A. Bradley
Foreward, Curtis A. Bradley and Judith G. Kelley
The Concept of International Delegation, Curtis A. Bradley and Judith G. Kelley
Antibiotic Overuse: The Influence of Social Norms, Timothy G. Buchman, Jonathan Dushoff, Mark B. Effron, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Susan Fitzpatrick
A Few Words in Favor of Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace, Mary Anne Case
Feminist Fundamentalism on the Frontier between Government and Family Responsibility for Children, Mary Anne Case
Immigration Law's Organizing Principles, Adam B. Cox
Documenting Discrimination?, Adam B. Cox and Thomas J. Miles
Judging the Voting Rights Act, Adam B. Cox and Thomas J. Miles
Judicial Ideology and the Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Adam B. Cox and Thomas J. Miles
The Reconstruction Congress, David P. Currie
Taxing the Bandit Kings, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
What Problems and Opportunities are Created by Tax Havens?, Dhammika Dharmapala
On Constitutional Changes to Limit Government, Frank H. Easterbrook
Originalism and Pragmatism: Pragmatism's role in Interpretation, Frank H. Easterbrook
The Chicago School and Exclusionary Conduct, Frank H. Easterbrook
A Structural Interpretation of the Second Amendment: Why Heller is (Probably) Wrong on Originalist Grounds, Richard A. Epstein
Decentralized Responses to Good Fortune and Bad Luck Moral and Legal Luck, Richard A. Epstein
Federal Preemption, and Federal Common Law, in Nuisance Cases, Richard A. Epstein
Happiness and Revealed Preferences in Evolutionary Perspective, Richard A. Epstein
Is Group Selection Necessary? An Alternative Interpretation of Homogenous Middleman Groups: Comments on Janet Landa's Paper, Richard A. Epstein
Property Rights, Public Use, and the Perfect Storm: An Essay in Honor of Bernard H. Siegan, Richard A. Epstein
Should Antidiscrimination Laws Limit Freedom of Association? The Dangerous Allure of Human Rights Legislation, Richard A. Epstein
The AT&(and)T Consent Decree: In Praise of Interconnection Only, Richard A. Epstein
The Human and Economic Dimensions of Altruism: The Case of Organ Transplantation, Richard A. Epstein
The Many Faces of Fault in Contract Law: Or How to Do Economics Right, Without Really Trying, Richard A. Epstein
The Reflections and Responses of a Legal Contrarian, Richard A. Epstein
The Subprime Crisis: Why One Bad Turn Leads to Another at Pepperdine University School of Law, Richard A. Epstein
Why the Modern Administrative State Is Inconsistent with the Rule of Law, Richard A. Epstein
Cybersecurity in the Payment Card Industry, Richard A. Epstein and Thomas P. Brown
David P. Currie (1936-2007) In Memoriam, Richard A. Epstein, Gerhard Casper, David Gossett, and Herma Hill Kay
Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered, Brian D. Feinstein and Eric Schickler
Homeownership 2.0, Lee Anne Fennell
Soft Law: Lessons from Congressional Practice, Jacob Gersen and Eric A. Posner
Comparative Constitutional Drafting, Tom Ginsburg
Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation, Tom Ginsburg
Judicialization of Administrative Governance: Causes, Consequences and Limits, Tom Ginsburg
Military Occupations and Their Constitutional Residue, Tom Ginsburg
The Citizen as Founder: Public Participation in Constitutional Approval, Tom Ginsburg, Justin Blount, and Zachary Elkins
Commitment and Diffusion: How and Why National Constitutions Incorporate International Law, Tom Ginsburg, Svitlana Chernykh, and Zachary Elkins
Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases Roundtable, Tom Ginsburg, Hong Sik Cho, Narufumi Kadomatsu, and Jiunn-Rong Yeh
Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts, Tom Ginsburg and Zachary Elkins
Symposium: Public International Law and Economics - Introduction, Tom Ginsburg, Christoph Engel, and Anne van Aaken
The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils, Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa
A Reader's Companion to Against Prediction: A Reply to Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir on Economic Modeling, Selective Incapacitation, Governmentality, and Race, Bernard E. Harcourt
Repenser le Carcéral à Travers le Prisme de l' Institutionalisation : Sur les Liens entre Asiles et Prisons aux Etats-Unis, Bernard E. Harcourt
Supposons Que la Discipline et la Sécurité N’existen Pas: Rereading Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures, Bernard E. Harcourt
Book Review (reviewing Peter D. Clarke, The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (2007)), Richard H. Helmholz
Citing Fiction, M. Todd Henderson
Deconstructing Duff and Phelps, M. Todd Henderson
Imagining Counterterrorism's Future, Aziz Huq
The War on Crime as Precursor to the War on Terror, Aziz Huq and Christopher Muller
The Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights under International Treaties, Sital Kalantry
Book Review (reviewing Stephen L. Elkin, Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison (2006)), Alison LaCroix
Book Review (reviewing Ali Riaz & Subho Basu, Paradise Lost: State Failure in Nepal (2007)), Genevieve Lakier
Book Review (reviewing Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007)), Brian Leiter
Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
In Memoriam: David P. Currie (1936–2007), Saul Levmore
International Calendar, Lyonette Louis-Jacques
What's Wrong with International Law Scholarship?: Gaps in International Legal Literature, Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Patient Enrollment in Medical Trials: Selection Bias in a Randomized Experiment, Anup Malani
Regulation with Placebo Effects, Anup Malani
Valuing Laws as Local Amenities, Anup Malani
Does Nonprofit Status Signal Quality?, Anup Malani and Guy David
Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
Coordinating in the Shadow of the Law: Two Contextualized Tests of the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance, Richard H. McAdams and Janice Nadler
An Empirical Analysis of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted, Thomas J. Miles
The New Legal Realism, Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein
The Real World of Arbitrariness Review, Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein
Bankruptcy's Rarity: An Essay on Small Business Bankruptcy in the United States, Edward Morrison
Regulating the Rulemakers: A Proposal for Deliberative Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jennifer Nou
10 x 10: 10 years, 10 questions, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Beyond Toleration to Equal Respect, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Hiding From Humanity: Replies to Charlton, Haldane, Archard, and Brooks, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Nationalism and Development: Can There Be a Decent Patriotism?, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Robin West, 'Jurisprudence and Gender': Defending a Radical Liberalism, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Stoic Laughter: A Reading of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Toward a Globally Sensitive Patriotism, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Who Is the Happy Warrior?: Philosophy Poses Questions to Psychology, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Competition and Privacy in Web 2.0 and the Cloud, Randal C. Picker
Twombly, Leegin, and the Reshaping of Antitrust, Randal C. Picker
Boumediene and the Uncertain March of Judicial Cosmopolitanism, Eric A. Posner
Does Political Bias in the Judiciary Matter?: Implications of Judicial Bias Studies for Legal and Constitutional Reform, Eric A. Posner
Human Welfare, Not Human Rights, Eric A. Posner
Policy by Reflex (reviewing Stephen Holmes, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terrorism (2007)), Eric A. Posner
Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Matthew D. Adler
Climate Change Justice, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Introduction to the Conference on Law and Happiness, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Constitutional Showdowns, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Foreword: The Peer Review Experiment, Richard A. Posner
Privacy, Surveillance, and Law, Richard A. Posner
The Decline and Fall of AT&T: A Personal Recollection, Richard A. Posner
The Decline of Literary Criticism, Richard A. Posner
The State of Legal Scholarship Today: A Comment on Schlag, Richard A. Posner
The Latest Intelligence Crisis, Richard A. Posner and John McCreary
Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? (reviewing Zoltan J. Acs & Alan Lyles, Obesity, Business, and Public Policy, (2007)), Richard A. Posner and Tomas J. Philipson
Can the Income Tax Be Saved? The Promise and Pitfalls of Worldwide Formulary Appointment, Julie Roin
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
The New Illinois Right-to-Sue Law for Employment Discrimination, Randall D. Schmidt, Stephen E. Balogh, and Lindsey Marcus
Book Review (reviewing Neil Vidmar & Valerie P. Hans, American Juries: The Verdict (2007)), Geoffrey R. Stone
Free Speech in the Twenty-First Century: Ten Lessons from the Twentieth Century Lead Article, Geoffrey R. Stone
In Memoriam: David P. Currie (1936-2007), Geoffrey R. Stone
Kenneth Karst's Equality as a Central Principle in the First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
The Roberts Court, Stare Decisis, and the Future of Constitutional Law, Geoffrey R. Stone
The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?, Geoffrey R. Stone
War and Speech: The Right to Know Has Been a Casualty, Geoffrey R. Stone
Privacy versus Antidiscrimination, Lior Strahilevitz
Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information, Lior Strahilevitz
Book Review (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Justice in Robes (2006)), David A. Strauss
Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown, David A. Strauss
On the Origin of Rules (with Apologies to Darwin): A Comment on Antonin Scalia's the Rule of Law as a Law of Rules, David A. Strauss
Originalism and Precedent: Why Conservatives Shouldn't Be Originalists, David A. Strauss
Caste and Disability: The Moral Foundations of the Ada, Cass R. Sunstein
Does Red Lion Still Roar?, Cass R. Sunstein
Illusory Losses Legal Implications of the New Research on Happiness, 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 The Supreme Court, 2007 Term:, Cass R. Sunstein
Some Effects of Moral Indignation on Law, Cass R. Sunstein
The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity, David A. Weisbach
What Does Happiness Research Tell Us about Taxation?, David A. Weisbach
Antitrust Settlements in the United States Session One: Principles and Objectives of Antitrust Settlements: Panel II, Diane P. Wood
Snapshots from the Seventh Circuit: Continuity and Change, 1966-2007, Diane P. Wood
The Bedrock of Individual Rights in Times of Natural Disaster, Diane P. Wood
Submissions from 2007
Not Just Doctrine: The True Motivation for Federal Incorporation and International Human Rights Litigation, Daniel Abebe
The Upside and Downside of Police Hunches and Expertise, Albert Alschuler
Exclusionary Rule and Causation: Hudson v. Michigan and Its Ancestors, The, Albert W. Alschuler
In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Douglas G. Baird
Technology, Information, and Bankruptcy, Douglas G. Baird
The Young Astronomers, Douglas G. Baird
Tribute to Bernard Meltzer, Douglas G. Baird
Rethinking Copyright: Property through the Lenses of Unjust Enrichment and Unfair Competition, Shyam Balganesh
The Social Costs of Property Rights in Broadcast (and Cable) Signals, Shyam Balganesh
Against Irreparable Benefits, Omri Ben-Shahar
Partially Odious Debts?, Omri Ben-Shahar and G. Mitu Gulati
Unratified Treaties, Domestic Politics, and the U.S. Constitution, Curtis A. Bradley
All the World's the Men's Room, Mary Anne Case
Deference, Delegation, and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox
The Temporal Dimension of Voting Rights, Adam B. Cox
The Second-Order Structure of Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Eric A. Posner
Dividends and Tax Policy in the Long Run: Discussion, Dhammika Dharmapala
Chicago on Vertical Restrictions, Frank H. Easterbrook
Bell Atlantic v. Twombly: How Motions to Dismiss Become (Disguised) Summary Judgments, Richard A. Epstein
Conflicts of Interest in Health Care: Who Guards the Guardians?, Richard A. Epstein
Coniston Corp v. Village of Hoffman Hills: How to Make Procedural Due Process Disappear, Richard A. Epstein
Contingent Commissions in Insurance: A Legal and Economic Analysis, Richard A. Epstein
David Josiah Brewer Addresses Yale Law School, Richard A. Epstein
Defanging IRBs: Replacing Coercion with Information, Richard A. Epstein
From Penn Central to Lingle: The Long Backwards Road, Richard A. Epstein
How to Create - or Destroy - Wealth in Real Property, Richard A. Epstein
How to Solve (or Avoid) the Exactions Problem, Richard A. Epstein
Influence of Pharmaceutical Funding on the Conclusions of Meta-analyses, Richard A. Epstein
Introduction to the Italian Edition of Overdose, Richard A. Epstein
On Wal-Mart: Doing Good by Doing Nothing, Richard A. Epstein
Pharmaceutical Industry at Risk: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Innovation, Richard A. Epstein
The Dangers of Investor Protection in Securities Markets, Richard A. Epstein
The Erosion of Individual Autonomy in Medical Decisionmaking: Of the FDA and IRBs, Richard A. Epstein
The Neoclassical Economics of Consumer Contracts, Richard A. Epstein
Tribute to Bernard Meltzer, Richard A. Epstein
Zoning: Deliberative Democracy at Zero Prices, Richard A. Epstein
Federalism: Executive Power in Wartime, Richard A. Epstein, Roger Pilon, Geoffrey R. Stone, and John C. Yoo
Order with Outlaws?, Lee Anne Fennell
Property and Half-Torts, Lee Anne Fennell
Use of Statistical Evidence to Address Police Supervisory and Disciplinary Practices: The Chicago Police Department's Broken System, Craig B. Futterman, H. Melissa Mather, and Melanie Miles
Timing Rules and Legal Institutions, Jacob Gersen and Eric A. Posner
Lessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia, Tom Ginsburg
Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul: Constitution Making in Occupied States, Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton
Odious Debt, Odious Credit, Economic Development, and Democratization: Odious Debts and State Corruption, Tom Ginsburg and Thomas S. Ulen
Critique du champ pénal a l'âge actuariel, Bernard E. Harcourt
Judge Richard Posner on Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, Bernard E. Harcourt
Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment: On the Limits of Reason and the Virtues of Randomization, Bernard E. Harcourt
Sulla svolta atturiale in criminologia, Bernard E. Harcourt
Unconstitutional Police Searches and Collective Responsibility, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000, Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Children's Rights and the Canon Law: Law and Practice in Later Medieval England, Richard H. Helmholz
The Law of Nature and the Early History of Unenumerated Rights in the United States, Richard H. Helmholz
From Seriatim to Consensus and Back Again: A Theory of Dissent, M. Todd Henderson
Paying CEOs in Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson
Prediction Markets for Corporate Governance, M. Todd Henderson and Michael Abramowicz
Introduction to Symposium on Immigration Reform: Balancing Enforcement and Integration, Aziz Huq
The Hirota Gambit, Aziz Huq
The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic, Alison LaCroix
Posner on Beanie Babies, William M. Landes
Nietzsche's Theory of the Will, Brian Leiter
Science and Morality: Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty's 'Pragmatism', Brian Leiter
Mixed-Income Housing as a Pre-Commitment Strategy, Jeff Leslie
Animal Rights without Controversy, Jeff Leslie and Cass R. Sunstein
A Theory of Deception and then of Common Law Categories, Saul Levmore
In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Saul Levmore
Judging Deception, Saul Levmore
Parental Leave and American Exceptionalism, Saul Levmore
Tribute to Bernard Meltzer, Saul Levmore
Uncapturing Law School Regulation, Saul Levmore
Book Review (reviewing Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (2006)), Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Gaps in International Legal Literature: Skeptical Reappraisal, Lyonette Louis-Jacques
International Calendar, Lyonette Louis-Jacques
The Silence of the Lambdas: Deterring Incapacitation Research, Jens Ludwig and Thomas J. Miles
Current Research on Medical Malpractice Liability, Anup Malani
The Case for For-Profit Charities, Anup Malani and Eric A. Posner
Judicial Deference and the Credibility of Agency Commitments, Jonathan Masur
Probability Thresholds, Jonathan Masur
Reforming Entrapment Doctrine in United States v. Hollingsworth, Richard H. McAdams
Hate Crime: A Behavioral Economic Analysis, Richard H. McAdams, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Nuno Garoupa
Posner on Economic Loss in Tort: EVRA Corp v. Swiss Bank, Thomas J. Miles
Bankruptcy Decision Making: An Empirical Study of Continuation Bias in Small-Business Bankruptcies, Edward Morrison
Tribute to Bernard Meltzer, Phil C. Neal
Carr, Before and After: Power and Sex in Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corp, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Cultivating Humanity and World Citizenship, Martha Craven Nussbaum
‘Equal Respect for Conscience’: Roger Williams on the Moral Basis of Civil Peace, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Gewetenswrijheid, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Human Dignity and Basic Capabilities, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Human Rights and Human Capabilities, Martha Craven Nussbaum
In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Martha Craven Nussbaum
Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on Equal Respect, Martha Craven Nussbaum
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Capabilities Approach and Ethical Cosmopolitanism: A Response to Noah Feldman, Martha Craven Nussbaum
The Supreme Court 2006 Term - Foreword: Constitutions and Capabilities: 'Perception' against Lofty Formalism, Martha Craven Nussbaum
Is Public Reason Counterproductive?, Eduardo Peñalver
Restoring the Right Constitution? (reviewing Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (2004)), Eduardo Peñalver
Property Outlaws, Eduardo Peñalver and Sonia Katyal
Fair Use v. Fair Access, Randal C. Picker
Pulling a Rabbi out of His Hat: The Bankruptcy Magic of Dick Posner, Randal C. Picker
Agencies Should Ignore Distant-Future Generations, Eric A. Posner
Book Review (reviewing Jeremy A. Rabkin, Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign State (2005)), Eric A. Posner
Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal, Eric A. Posner
The International Protection of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner
Critique of the Odious Debt Doctrine, The Odious Debts and State Corruption, Eric A. Posner and Albert H. Choi
On Learning from Others, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
Economic Analysis of State and Individual Responsibility under International Law, An, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Originalism and Emergencies: A Reply to Lawson, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
American Legal Pragmatism, Richard A. Posner
In Defense of Prometheus: Some Ethical, Economic, and Regulatory Issues of Sports Doping, Richard A. Posner
In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Richard A. Posner
John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose, Richard A. Posner
Tribute to Ronald Dworkin and a Note on Pragmatic Adjudication, Richard A. Posner
The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks, Richard A. Posner, Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, and Alvin E. Roth
Classic Revisited: Penal Theory in Paradise Lost, Richard A. Posner and Jillisa Brittan
On Discounting Regulatory Benefits: Risk, Money, and Intergenerational Equity, Arden Rowell and Cass R. Sunstein