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 2025
Sweeping Section Three Under the Rug: A Comment on Trump v. Anderson, William Baude and Michael Paulsen
Colonial Experiences and Contemporary Laws, Adam Chilton, Yun-chien Chang, Nuno Garoupa, and Mila Versteeg
Political Ideology and Judicial Administration: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Adam Chilton, Christopher Cotropia, Kyle Rozema, and David Schwartz
Criminal Procedure in a Time of Abolition, Adam Davidson
A Natural Law Approach to Parental Rights, Richard Epstein
Lawyer CEOs, M. Henderson, Irena Hutton, Danling Jiang, and Matthew Pierson
Gender Equality in World Athletics: Transnational Norm Development by Private International Organizations, Michele Krech
Dispatches From Amendment Valley, Alison LaCroix
How Are Ideologies False? A Reconstruction of the Marxian Concept, Brian Leiter
Submissions from 2024
Layered Constitutionalism, Payvand Ahdout and Bridget Fahey
Bankruptcy Minimalism, Douglas Baird
General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment, William Baude, Jud Campbell, and Stephen Sachs
The General-Law Right to Bear Arms, William Baude and Robert Leider
The Sweep and Force of Section Three, William Baude and Michael Paulsen
Personalized Law and the Problem of Misinformation, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Opening Dialogue, Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone
Amendments to the Case-Zablocki Act Concerning Reporting and Publication of International Agreements and Related Regulations (U.S.), Curtis Bradley
Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and the Major Questions Doctrine, Curtis Bradley and Jack Goldsmith
Standing and Probabilistic Injury, Curtis Bradley and Ernest Young
Achieving Meaningful Youth Participation in Juvenile Court, Emily Buss
Restating the Law Governing Children's Education, Emily Buss
The role (and limits) of developmental neuroscience in determining adolescents’ autonomy rights: The case for reproductive and voting rights, Emily Buss, Julie Maslowsky, and Laura Wray-Lake
Bankruptcy by Another Name, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
Insolvency Courts: General Principles for Systems Design, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
Which Constitutional Provisions Are Most Important?, Adam Chilton, Richard Albert, Netta Barak-Corren, Daniel Brinks, Rosalind Dixon, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, Ran Hirschl, David Landau, Ashley Moran, Yvonne Tew, and Mila Versteeg
Dynamic Diffusion, Adam Chilton, Anu Bradford, and Katerina Linos
Foreword to JELS special issue, Adam Chilton, Dhammika Dharmapala, and William Hubbard
Constraining Constitution-Making, Adam Chilton, Cristián Eyzaguirre, David Landau, and Mila Versteeg
Social Rights Scapegoating, Adam Chilton, Cristián Eyzaguirre, and Mila Versteeg
The Limits of Diplomacy by Treaty: Evidence from China's Bilateral Investment Treaty Program, Adam Chilton and Weijia Rao
Administrative Enslavement, Adam Davidson
The Shadow of the Law of the Police, Adam Davidson
Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Social Rule-Following, Alma Diamond
Shadows or Forgeries? Explaining Legal Normativity, Alma Diamond
LOCHNER.COM?, Evelyn Douek and Genevieve Lakier
The Bottini Saga: Why Housing Shortages are Endemic in California, Richard Epstein
The DOJ and FTC's Misguided Attack on Mergers, Richard Epstein
The Natural Law Origins of Private and Public Law, Richard Epstein
The Impact of Civilian Investigative Agency Resources on the Timeliness of Police Misconduct Investigations, Sharon Fairley
What’s in a Name? ESG Mutual Funds and the SEC’s Names Rule, Jill Fisch and Adriana Robertson
Secrecy by Stipulation, Nora Freeman, David Freeman, Jonah Gelbach, Austin Peters, and Aaron Schaffer-Neitz
The Holocaust and the Age of Rights, Tom Ginsburg
It's the Procedures, Stupid: The Success and Failures of Chile's Constitutional Convention, Tom Ginsburg and Isabel Álvarez
Estimating and Implementing Conventional Fairness Metrics With Probabilistic Protected Features, Jacob Goldin, Hadi Elzayn, Emily Black, Patrick Vossler, Nathanael Jo, and Daniel Ho
Private Security and Public Police, Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport, and Michael Berg
Machine-Learning Human Rights, Han-wei Ho, Patrick Chung-Chia, Nuno Garoupa, Martin Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
An Anatomy Lesson for Democrats, Aziz Huq
On the Genealogy of Intimate Digital Harm, Aziz Huq
Structural Logics of Presidential Disqualification: An Essay on Trump v. Anderson, Aziz Huq
The Dignity of Legal Subjects, Aziz Huq
The Trouble with Classifications, Aziz Huq
The Necessary and Proper Stewardship of Judicial Data, Aziz Huq and Zachary Clopton
Imputing unreported hate crimes using Google Search data, Aziz Huq and Dhammika Dharmapala
What do oral contraceptive pills have to do with human rights abuses in sport?, Michele Krech and Katrina Karkazis
Lies and the Law: An Introduction, Genevieve Lakier
Falsely Shouting Fire, Genevieve Lakier and Evelyn Douek
Foucault As A Kind Of Realist: Genealogical Critique and the Debunking of the Human Sciences, Brian Leiter
Free Speech on the Internet: The Crisis of Epistemic Authority, Brian Leiter
Representing the Community Partner in Joint Ventures Utilizing Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Jeff Leslie
Sharing where Bargains are Impossible, Saul Levmore and Andrew Verstein
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Hannah Wiseman, and Shelley Welton
Comparing population-level humoral and cellular immunity to SARS-Cov-2 in Bangalore, India, Anup Malani, Jayashree Aiyar, Andrea Sant, Neha Kamran, Manoj Mohanan, Saloni Taneja, Bartek Woda, Wanran Zhao, and Anu Acharya
So Much for Plain Language: An Analysis of the Accessibility of United States Federal Laws Over Time, Eric Martinez, Frank Mollica, and Edward Gibson
Relentless as Entrenchment, Jonathan Masur
Competition and Congestion in Trademark Law, Jonathan Masur, Christopher Buccafusco, and Mark McKenna
Real-World Prior Art, Jonathan Masur and Lisa Ouellette
Succession’s Chappaquiddick Moment, Richard McAdams
Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms, Richard McAdams and Christoph Engel
The Consequences and Constitutionality of Training Police to Blame Victims, Richard McAdams and Margareth Etienne
Historical Analogy and the Role Morality of Reason-Giving, Darrell Miller
The New Outlawry, Darrell Miller and Jacob Charles
Technology, Tradition, and “The Terror of the People”, Darrell Miller, Alexandra Filindra, and Noah Kaplan
Are They All Textualists Now?, Austin Peters
tailwiz: Empowering Domain Experts with Easy-to-Use, Task-Specific Natural Language Processing Models, Austin Peters, Tim Daj, Jonah Gelbach, David Freeman, and Daniel Khang
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Vénus Noire, Farah Peterson
Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting, Philip Petrov
Market Power, Not Consumer Welfare: A Return to the Foundations of Merger Law, Eric Posner
Review of "The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything" by John Coates, Eric Posner
The New Labor Antitrust, Eric Posner
A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Estimating Age-Specific COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rates in Developing Countries, Sierra Pugh, Andrew Levin, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Satej Soman, Nana Owusu-Boaitey, Anthony Zwi, Anup Malani, Ander Wilson, and Bailey Fosdick
Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing, John Rappaport, Jonathan Masur, and Aurelie Ouss
Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds, Adriana Robertson and Peter Molk
The Additionality Double Standard, James Salzman and David Weisbach
Breaking the Saffron Wave?: Sangha Capture in South and Southeast Asia, Benjamin Schonthal and Tom Ginsburg
Did Booker Increase Disparity? Why the Evidence is Unpersuasive, Sonja Starr
The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness, Sonja Starr
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION Why Do We Need Constitutional Rights?, Geoffrey Stone
The Warren Court v. the Roberts Court, Geoffrey Stone
Free Speech on Campus: Examining the Campus Speech Debate through a First Amendment Lens, Geoffrey Stone and David Levi
What BROWN Taught Us About the Constitution, David Strauss
Point: Does More Procedure Produce Better Guidance?, David Weisbach
Redistribution with Political Constraints: Legal Rules Compared to Taxes and Transfers, David Weisbach
Tax Exceptionalism, David Weisbach
Submissions from 2023
Twilight-Zone Originalism: The Peculiar Reasoning and Unfortunate Consequences of New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen,, Albert Alschuler
The Promise & Perils of Open Finance, Dan Awrey and Joshua Macey
Three Faces of Creditor-on-Creditor Aggression, Douglas Baird
Severability First Principles, William Baude
The 2023 Scalia Lecture: Beyond Textualism?, William Baude
Proper Parties, Proper Relief, William Baude and Samuel Bray
Book Review: The “Common-Good” Manifesto, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance, Omri Ben-Shahar
Nonparty Interests in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar, David Hoffman, and Cathy Hwang
State International Agreements: The United States, Canada, and Constitutional Evolution, Curtis Bradley
The Political Question Doctrine and International Law, Curtis Bradley
State International Agreements: The United States, Canada, and Constitutional Evolution, Curtis A. Bradley
Efficacious Answers to the Non-Pro Rata Workout, Vincent Buccola
Does Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code Authorize Nonconsensual Nondebtor Releases? (23-124), Anthony Casey
Problems with Probability, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models, Adam Chilton, Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel Ho, Christopher Ré, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, and et al.
Beyond Constitutional Rights, Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Legal Origins and Human Rights Law, Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
A Modern Defense of Simple Rules for a Complex World, Richard Epstein
Levmore on Simple Rules, Richard Epstein
Rethinking Disclosure Obligations in Securities Regulations: Why less Is (Much) More, Richard Epstein
Sequential Uses of Copyrighted Materials: Transforming Transformative Use Doctrine In Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, Richard Epstein
SPACs, PIPEs, and Common Investors, Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore
Coordinated Rulemaking and Cooperative Federalism’s Administrative Law, Bridget A. Fahey
Strategic subdelegation, Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
Residents against Housing: A Response to Professor Infranca’s ‘Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies’, Lee Anne Fennell
As Complexidades Expressivas da Igualdade Constitucional, Tom Ginsburg
Outside-In and Inside-Out Multimethod Research: A Discussion of Chilton and Versteeg's How Constitutional Rights Matter, Tom Ginsburg
The Law of the Sea and Democracy, Tom Ginsburg
The Long Hand of Anti-Corruption: Israeli Judicial Reform in Comparative Perspective, Tom Ginsburg
Universities as Knowledge Institutions: A Reply to Professor Jackson, Tom Ginsburg
Democracy's Other Boundary Problem: The Law of Democratic Disqualification, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, and David Landau
The Constitutionalization of Democracy, Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
How Redundant are Redundant Encodings? Blindness in the Wild and Racial Disparity when Race is Unobserved, Jacob Goldin, Lingwei Cheng, Isabel Gallegos, Derek Ouyang, and Daniel Ho
Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation, Christopher S. Havasy, Joshua C. Macey, and Brian Richardson
Legal History and Abortion in American Law, Richard Helmholz
Our Federalism and Our Democracy: Complements or Foes?, Aziz Huq
The January 6 Insurrection and the Problem of Constitutional Guardianship, Aziz Huq
The Comparative Constitutional of Democratic Backsliding: A Report on the State of the Field, Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg
Statistical Inference and Power Analysis for Direct and Spillover Effects in Two-Stage Randomized Experiments, Zhichao Jiang, Kosuke Imai, and Anup Malani
Hidden Value Transfers in Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua Macey
The Corporate Governance of Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua A. Macey
International Constitution-making as a Technique of Gender Ordering: Considering the Role of the Family in Global Economic Relations, Michele Krech
The Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the United States, Filippo Lancieri, Eric Posner, and Luigi Zingales
On the Relevance of Etiology to Justification (with reference to Marx and Nietzsche), Brian Leiter
Realism, Disagreement, and Explanation, Brian Leiter
Fractured Majorities and Their Reasons, Saul Levmore
Simplicity and Complexity in Law and in Markets, Saul Levmore
Lessons from Disease and Economic Surveillance During COVID-19, Anup Malani
Conceptual and analytical approaches for modelling the developmental origins of inequality, Anup Malani, Elizabeth Archie, and Stacy Rosenbaum
What Do Law Professors Believe about Law and the Legal Academy?, Eric Martinez and Kevin Tobia
Horizontal Collusion and Parallel Wage Setting in Labor Markets, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
A Meditation on the Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Redemption, Darrell Miller
Common Good Gun Rights, Darrell Miller
'A Map Is Not the Territory' : The Theory and Future of Sensitive Places Doctrine, Darrell Miller, Joseph Blocher, and Jacob Charles
Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bullets and Bodies, Darrell Miller, Joseph Blocher, and Jacob Charles
Amicus Brief, Martha Nussbaum
Private Enforcement in the States, Austin Peters, Diego Zambrano, Neel Guha, and Jeffrey Xia
Enforcement of US antitrust law in labour markets, Eric Posner
Introduction to the Symposium on Labor Market Power, Eric A. Posner
Ownership and Rent Stigma: Two Experiments, Eric Posner and Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine; Sepultando a doutrina da não delegação, Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule
The (Mis)uses of the S&P 500, Adriana Z. Robertson
Statistical Discrimination, Sonja Starr
Free Speech and World War II, Geoffrey Stone
Review of Daniel Farber, Inequality and Regulation: Designing Rules to Address Race, Poverty, and Environmental Justice, David Weisbach
Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax, David Weisbach, Sam Kortum, Michael Wang, and Yujia Yao
Managerial Judging in the Courts of Appeals, Diane Wood and Zachary Clopton
Litigating Federal Reduction-in-Sentence Motions: The New Legal Landscape, Erica Zunkel and Jaden Lessnick
Submissions from 2022
The Corruption of the Pardon Power, Albert Alschuler
Civil Procedure as the Regulation of Externalities: Toward a New Theory of Civil Litigation, Ronen Avraham and William Hubbard
Open Access, Interoperability, and DTCC’s Unexpected Path to Monopoly, Dan Awrey and Joshua C. Macey
Reflections of a Supreme Court Commissioner, William Baude
Data Pollution, Omri Ben-Shahar
Personalized Class Actions, Omri Ben-Shahar
Nonparty Interests in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar, David A. Hoffman, and Cathy Hwang
Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study, Lisa Bernstein and Brad Peterson
Restating US Foreign Relations Law: Lessons from the Treaty Materials, Curtis Bradley and Edward Swaine
Kids Are Not So Different: The Path from Juvenile Exceptionalism to Prison Abolition, Emily Buss
Kids Are Not So Different: The Path from Juvenile Exceptionalism to Prison Abolition, Emily Buss
What Can We Learn From the Federal Approach to The Prosecution of Juvenile Crime?, Emily Buss
The Limits of Public Contract Law, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
Assessing Affirmative Action's Diversity Rationale, Adam Chilton, Justin Driver, Jonathan Masur, and Kyle Rozema
The Expanding Universe of Bilateral Labor Agreements, Adam Chilton and Bartosz Woda
Managing the Police Emergency, Adam Davidson
Procedural Losses and the Pyrrhic Victory of Abolishing Qualified Immunity, Adam A. Davidson
The Ghost of John Hart Ely, Ryan Doerfler
Modeling Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Dose Fractionation in India, Zhanwei Du, Lin Wang, Abhishek Pandey, Wey Wen Lim, Matteo Chinazzi, Ana Pastore Piontti, Eric H.Y. Lau, Peng Wu, Anup Malani, Sarah Cobey, and Benjamin Cowling
Antitrust Overreach in Labor Markets: A Response to Eric Posner, Richard Epstein
The Application of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets -Then and Now, Richard A. Epstein
Data Federalism, Bridget Fahey
Escape Room: Implicit Takings After Cedar Point Nursery, Lee Fennell
Streaming Property, Lee Anne Fennell
Article 2(4) and Authoritarian International Law, Tom Ginsburg
Democratic Backsliding and Multiracial Democracy. A Response to the 2021 Jorde Symposium Lecture by Steven Levitsky, Tom Ginsburg
Ideation and Innovation in Constitutional Rights, Tom Ginsburg
Police agencies on Facebook overreport on Black suspects, Ben Grunwald, Julian Nyarko, and John Rappaport
English Common Law and the Ius Commune: The Contributions of an English Civilian, R. H. Helmholz
Marching Orders, Richard Helmholz
Hidden Agendas in Shareholder Voting, Scott Hirst and Adriana Z. Robertson
The Supreme Court and the Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding, Aziz Huq
Artificially Intelligent Regulation, Aziz Huq and Mariano Florentino Cuéllar
Symposium Introduction: This Violent City? Urban Violence in Chicago and Beyond, Aziz Z. Huq and John Rappaport
Grid Reliability Through Clean Energy, Alexandra Klass, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Toward a “Tender Offer” Market for Labor Representation, Aneil Kovval and Jonathan R. Macey
A Counter-History of First Amendment Neutrality, Genevieve Lakier
The Epistemology of the Internet and the Regulation of Speech in America, Brian Leiter
Not-for-Profits, ESGs, and The Economic Structure of Corporate Law, Saul Levmore
Checks, Not Balances, Joshua C. Macey and Brian M. Richardson
Infrastructure, Enforcement and COVID-19 in Mumbai Slums: A First Look, Anup Malani, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Shaonlee Patranabis, and Luas Bettencourt
Promoting Regulatory Prediction, Jonathan Masur and Jonathan Remy Nash
Regulatory Oscillation, Jonathan S. Masur
Constitutional Challenges to Public Health Orders in Federal Courts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kenny Mok and Eric A. Posner
Labor Monopsony and the Limits of the Law, Suresh Naidu and Eric Posner
In Tribute: Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Jennifer Nou
Regulatory Diffusion, Jennifer Nou and Julian Nyarko
On Not Hating the Body, Martha Nussbaum
The Utility of a Psychoanalytic Theory of Law: A Benthamite Inquiry into John Deigh’s Insights, Martha Nussbaum
The First Thing Philosophers Have to Do is to Learn: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum, Martha Nussbaum, Marina Calloni, and Paolo Costa
Antitrust and Labor Markets: A Reply to Richard Epstein, Eric Posner
Antitrust and Inequality, Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein
The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait, Eric Posner and Lee Epstein
Introduction: This Violent City? Urban Violence in Chicago and Beyond, John Rappaport and Aziz Huq
Duplicative Taxation among the States: A Problem Not Worth Solving?, Julie Roin
The Legal Envelope Theorem, David A. Weisbach and Daniel J. Hemel
The Legal Envelope Theorem, David Weisbach and Daniel Hemel
The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens, Frank Wen, Anup Malani, and Sarah Cobey
Assembly-Line Plaintiffs, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
Class Action Boundaries, Daniel Wilf-Townsend
Indian Sovereignty in Context, Diane Wood
Words, Words, Words: Some Reflections on the Texas Law Review, Diane Wood
Submissions from 2021
The Social Science Approach to International Law, Daniel Abebe, Adam Chilton, and Tom Ginsburg
What Role Should Governments Play in Setting Rewards for Medical Innovation?, Michael Abramowicz Abramowicz, Daniel Hemel, and Bhaven Sampat
Plea Bargaining and Mass Incarceration, Albert Alschuler
Limiting the Pardon Power, Albert W. Alschuler
A Cause for Distress? Ways the Federal Income Tax Pushes Taxpayers into Bankruptcy, Douglas Baird
Bankruptcy - Past, Present, and Future, Douglas Baird and Marvin Isgur
Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Constitutionalizing Interstate Relations: The Temptation of the Dark Side, William Baude
The Real Enemies of Democracy, William Baude
Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance?, Anu Bradford, Yun-chien Chang, Adam Chilton, and Nuno Garoupa
Regulating Antitrust through Trade Agreements, Anu Bradford and Adam Chilton
Conflicting Approaches to the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, Curtis Bradley
Reassessing the Legislative Veto: The Statutory President, Foreign Affairs, and Congressional Workarounds, Curtis Bradley
Unpacking Third-Party Standing, Curtis Bradley and Ernest Young
The Milwaukee youth engagement pilot: Evidence of reciprocal legal socialization in Juvenile Court, Emily Buss
Symposium: The Roberts Court and Free Speech: Transcript, Michael Cahill, Joel Gora, and Geoffrey Stone
Sex and the Constitution: Some Additional Views of the Cathedral, Mary Anne Case
The Status of Marriage, Mary Anne Case
Who Conquers with This Sign? The Significance of The Secularization of The Bladensburg Cross, Mary Anne Case
Bankruptcy & Bailouts, Subsidies & Stimulus: The Government Toolset for Responding to Market Distress, Anthony Casey
Bankruptcy Shopping: Domestic Venue Races and Global Forum Wars, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
Micro-Directives and Computational Merger Review, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
New Empirical Tests for Classic Litigation Selection Models: Evidence from a Low Settlement Environment, Yun-chien Chang and William H.J. Hubbard
United Nations Endorsement and Support for Human Rights: An Experiment on Women's Rights in Pakistan., Adam Chilton, Gulnaz Anjum, and Zahid Usman
Designing Supreme Court Term Limits, Adam Chilton, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
Preferences and Compliance with International Law, Adam Chilton and Katerina Linos
Measurement and Causal Identification in Constitutional Law: A Reply to Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou, Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Taxing Buybacks, Daniel Daniel and Gregg Polsky
Guido Calabresi's "Other Justice Reasons", Adam Davidson
Democratizing the Supreme Court, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
On Disruption and Leximetrics: A Reply to Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg
What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions?, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg
Birth Rights and Birth Wrongs Through A Common Law Lens: Why the No Liability Regime Is Likely to Ensure, Richard Epstein
Delegation of Powers: A Historical and Functional Analysis, Richard Epstein
Liability Rules for Autonomous Vehicles, Richard Epstein
Rules and Reasons, Public and Private: On the Use and Limits of Simple Rules 25 Years Later, Richard Epstein
Valuation Blunders in the Law of Eminent Domain, Richard Epstein
Getting It Right: The push for open borders ignores the hard questions. How to ask--and answer--them., Richard A. Epstein
Police Deception in Interrogation as a Problem of Procedural Legitimacy, Margareth Etienne and Richard McAdams
Police Deception in Interrogation as a Problem of Procedural Legitimacy, Margareth Etienne and Richard McAdams
Congress's Commissioners, Brian Feinstein and M Henderson
Remixing Resources, Lee Fennell
Sizing Up Categories, Lee Fennell
Global Impunity: How Police Laws & Policies In The World's Wealthiest Countries Fail International Human Rights Standards, Claudia Flores, Brian Citro, Nino Guruli, Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Chelsea Kehrer, and Hannah Abrahams
Review of Dixon and Landau's Abusive Constitutional Borrowing, Tom Ginsburg
The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic, Tom Ginsburg
"The Economy, Stupid": Notes on a Continuing Conversation, Tom Ginsburg
The Performance of Africa's International Courts: Using Litigation for Political, Legal, and Social Change, Tom Ginsburg
Chevron's Next Chapter: A Fig Leaf for the Nondelegation Doctrine, Alison Gocke
The Limits of International Law Fifteen Years Later, Jack Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner
Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement, Nicole Hallett
The Law of Waste and the Law of Dilapidations: A Comparative History, Richard Helmholz
Beyond the Dignity of Work Comment on M. Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Daniel Hemel
Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?, Daniel Hemel
Four Futures for U.S. Pandemic Policy, Daniel Hemel
Price Gouging in a Pandemic, Daniel Hemel, Christopher Buccafusco, and Eric Talley
Trademark Law Pluralism, Daniel Hemel and Lisa Ouellette
The Behavioral Elasticity of Tax Revenue, Daniel Hemel and David Weisbach
How (not) to explain a democratic recession, Aziz Huq
Why Judicial Independence Fails, Aziz Huq
The Comparative Constitutional Law of Presidential Impeachment, Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, and David Landau
Democracy as Failure, Aziz Z. Huq
Can Mandating Corporate Social Responsibility Backfire, Hajin Kim
Essential Businesses and Shareholder Value, Aneil Kovvali
The Non-First Amendment Law of Speech, Genevieve Lakier
Back to Hart, Brian Leiter
Addictive Law, Saul Levmore
Probabilistic Disclosures for Corporate and other Law, Saul Levmore
The Eventual Decline of Empirical Law and Economics, Saul Levmore
The Evolutionary Force of Behavioral Economics in Law, Saul Levmore
Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment, Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
Long Live The Federal Power Act’s Bright Line, Joshua Macey
Utility Mergers and the Modern (and Future) Power Grid, Joshua Macey
Zombie Energy Laws, Joshua Macey
Research Letter: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India, Anup Malan, Manoj Mohanan, Kaushik Krishnan, and Anu Acharya
Still in Mortal Peril? Recent Research Suggests a New Agenda for Health Care Reform, Anup Malani
Moral Norms, Adaptive Preferences, and Hedonic Psychology, Jonathan Masur
The Scholar as Coauthor, Jonathan Masur
Drugs, Patents, and Wellbeing, Jonathan Masur and Christopher Buccafusco
Rethinking Law School Tenure Standards, Jonathan Masur, Adam Chilton, and Kyle Rozema
Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur and Eric Posner
Epstein on Private Discrimination: Searching for Common Ground, Richard McAdams
Introduction, Thomas Miles
The Future of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: Evidence from the Campaign to Restore Voting Rights in Florida, Michael Morse
Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual-Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws, Michael Morse, Phoebe Henninger, and Marc Meredith
The Racial Burden of Voter List Maintenance Errors, Michael Morse, Gregory Huber, Marc Meredith, and Katie Steele
Constraining Executive Entrenchment, Jennifer Nou
Cost-Benefit Conventions, Jennifer Nou
Identity, Equality, Freedom: McCloskey’s Crossing and the new Trans Scholarship, Martha C. Nussbaum
Can There Be Friendship Between Human Beings and Wild Animals?, Martha Nussbaum and Rachel Nussbaum
What Should We Do About The Big Tech Monopolies?, Randal Picker
Property Law for the Ages, Michael Pollack and Lior Strahilevitz
Policy Implications of the Common Ownership Debate, Eric Posner
The Boundaries of Normative Law and Economics, Eric Posner
The Economic Basis of the Independent Contractor/Employee Distinction, Eric Posner
The Other American Law, Elizabeth Reese
Changing Places, Changing Taxes: Exploiting Tax Discontinuities, Julie Roin
The Foreign Tax Credit Implications of Reallocating the Income of "Digital" Taxpayers, Julie Roin
Discovering Racial Discrimination by the Police, Alison Siegler
Solitary Confinement and the U.S. Prison Boom, Jessica Simes and Ryan Sakoda
On Prisoners, Politics, and the Administration of Criminal Justice: Professor Rachel Barkow, Sonja Starr
Introductory Remarks: The Roberts Court and the First Amendment: An Introduction, Geoffrey Stone
Sex and the Constitution: A Challenge of Our Times, Geoffrey Stone
The NSA, The Metadata Program, and the FISC, Geoffrey Stone
Hyde Park’s Two Turns in the Takings Clause Spotlight, Lior Strahilevitz
Sexual Orientation and the Dynamics of Discrimination, David Strauss
Debating Debating Climate Ethics, David Weisbach
Foreword: In Honor of Stephen Burbank: Beyond the Forest and the Trees, Diane Wood
Submissions from 2020
Common Law Judging in an Age of Statutes, Douglas Baird
Making Sense of Make-Wholes, Douglas Baird
Precedent and Discretion, William Baude
Historical Gloss, Madisonian Liquidation, and the Originalism Debate, Curtis A. Bradley and Neil S. Siegel
Chapter 11's Renegotiation Framework and the Purpose of Corporate Bankruptcy, Anthony Casey
The Chicago School's Limited Influence on International Antitrust, Adam Chilton, Anu Bradford, and Filippo Lancieri
A New Measure of Foreign Rule Based on Genetic Distance, Dhammika Dharmapala
The Tax Elasticity of Financial Statement Income: Implications for Current Reform Proposals, Dhammika Dharmapala
The "Ambiguity" Fallacy, Ryan Doerfler
A New Approach to Antitrust Law: Transparency, Frank Easterbrook, John Nalbandian, Deborah Garza, Eric Grannon, A.Douglas Melamed, Dan McGinnis, and Bob Popper
Property Rights: Long and Skinny, Richard Epstein
The Acquisition of Property Rights in Animals: A Brief Comment on Oliar and Stern: Right on Time: First Possession in Property and Intellectual Property, Richard Epstein
The Civil Rights Juggernaut David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Richard Epstein
Joint Employment: The Unintended and Unpredictable "Employment" Relationship, Richard Epstein, Timothy Tymkovich, Phillip Miscimarra, Richard Griffin, and Pepper Crutcher
Pattern Recognition in Tyus v. Urban Search Management, Lee Fennell
Foreword for special issue on legislatures in the time of Covid-19, Tom Ginsburg
How Authoritarians Use International Law, Tom Ginsburg
Review of Robert Hazell & Bob Morris, eds., The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy: European Monarchies Compared, Tom Ginsburg
Substitutes, Complements, and Irritants:Garza v Lappinand the Role of International Law in US Courts, Tom Ginsburg
The Machinery of International Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Problem of Term Limits, Tom Ginsburg
The Failed Transparency Regime for Executive Agreements: An Empirical and Normative Analysis, Oona A. Hathaway, Curtis A. Bradley, and Jack L. Goldsmith
Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market, Eric Helland, Darius Lakdawalla, Anup Malani, and Seth Seabury
Counsel in the Medieval Canon Law, Richard Helmholz
The Medieval Canon Law in Scotland: Marriage and Divorce, Richard Helmholz
Brian Tierney, Richard Helmholz, Stanley Chodorow, and Kenneth Pennington
A public health framework for COVID-19 business liability, Daniel Hemel and Daniel Rodriguez
Swanson v Citibank and the 1L Canon, William Hubbard
A Right to a Human Decision, Aziz Huq
Constitutional Rights in the Machine Learning State, Aziz Huq
Equality's Understudies, Aziz Huq
The Double Movement of National Origin Discrimination, Aziz Huq
Scaling Up Solutions for a Sustainability Transition, Hajin Kim, Eric Lambin, Jim Leape, and Kai Lee
HUKUKI POZITIVIZMIN RADIKALLIĜI, Brian Leiter
The Role of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View, Brian Leiter
Death as Divorce for the Abandoned Spouse: Davis v Combes and the Cautious and Gender-Sensitive Judiciary, Saul Levmore
My Dear Chief, Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Zombie Energy Laws, Joshua C. Macey
Rate Regulation Redux, Joshua Macey and Jackson Salovaara
Devise an India-specific Covid vaccination plan, Anup Malani
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in slums versus non-slums in Mumbai, India, Anup Malani, Daksha Shah, Gagandeep Kang, Gayatri Nair Lobo, Jayanthi Shastri, Manoj Mohanan, Rajesh Jain, Sachee Agrawal, Sandeep Juneja, and Sofia Imad
Cost-Benefit Analysis Under Trump: A Comment on Dan Farber's Regulatory Review in Anti-Regulatory Times, Jonathan Masur
Defending Speech Crimes, Judith Miller
Comments on Leif Wenar's Nussbaum Lecture "The Development of Unity", Martha Nussbaum
La Debilidad de Las Furias, Martha Nussbaum
Is Police Behavior Getting Worse? Data Selection and the Measurement of Policing Harms, Aurélie Ouss and John Rappoport
Constitutionalism in Unexpected Places, Farah Peterson
Expounding the Constitution, Farah Peterson
The Patriot Slave: The Dangerous Myth that Blacks in Bondage Chose Not to be Free in Revolutionary America, Farah Peterson
The Arc of Monopoly: A Case Study in Computing, Randal Picker
Deference to the Executive in the United States after September 11, Eric Posner
The Antitrust Challenge to Covenants Not to Compete in Employment Contracts, Eric Posner
The Boundaries of Normative Law and Economics, Eric Posner
Why Has Antitrust Law Failed Workers?, Eric Posner and Ioana Marinescu
Labor Monopsony and European Competition Law, Eric Posner and Cristina Volpin
Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study, J.J. Prescott and Sonja B. Starr
Judge Wood Meets International Tax, Julie Roin
Bail, Alison Siegler
Rethinking Federal Bail Advocacy to Change the Culture of Detention, Alison Siegler and Erika Zunkel
Expungement Reform in Arizona: The Empirical Case for a Clean Slate, Sonja Starr
The Power of a Clean Slate, Crime & Public Safety, Sonja Starr and J.J. Prescott
Data Security's Unjust Enrichment Theory, Lior Strahilevitz
Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data Personalized Law: Article and Comments, Lior Strahilevitz and Ariel Porat
Migratory Birds and the Administrative State, David Strauss
The Enduring Challenges for Habeas Corpus, Diane Wood
The Federal Judiciary's Role in Drug Law Reform in an Era of Congressional Dysfunction, Erica Zunkel and Alison Siegler
Submissions from 2019
Tax Sparing Agreements, Territorial Tax Reforms, and Foreign Direct Investment, Céline Azémar and Dhammika Dharmapala
Unlikely Resurrection: Richard Posner, Promissory Estoppel, and The Death of Contract, Douglas Baird
Constitutional Liquidation, William Baude
Grounding Originalism, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Personalizing Mandatory Rules in Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
Contract Governance in Small-World Networks: The Case of the Maghribi Traders, Lisa Bernstein
Trans Formations in the Vatican’s War on "Gender Ideology", Mary Anne Case
A Framework for the New Personalization of Law, Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett
Legal Rasputins? Law Clerk Influence on Voting at the U.S. Supreme Court, Adam S. Chilton, Adam Bonica, Kyle Rozema, and Jacob Goldin
Competition Gone Global: The Comparative Competition Law and Enforcement Datasets, Adam S. Chilton, Anu Bradford, Christopher Megaw, and Nathaniel Sokol
Profit Shifting in a Globalized World, Dhammika Dharmapala
Stock Market Reactions to India's 2016 Demonetization, Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Personalizing Precommitment, Lee Anne Fennell
Inversion Aversion, Lee Anne Fennell and Richard H. McAdams
From Catalonia to California: Secession in Constitutional Law, Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
Innovation Policy Pluralism, Daniel Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Outsourcing the Board: A Rebuttal, M. Todd Henderson
A Replication Study Worth Replicating: A Comment on Salmanowitz and Spamann, William Hubbard
Fourth Amendment Gloss, Aziz Huq
Racial Equity in Algorithmic Criminal Justice, Aziz Huq
The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches Under the 2017 Tax Legislation, David Kamin, David Gamage, Ari Glowgower, Rebecca Kysar, and Darien Shanske
Segregation by Citizenship, Emma Kaufman
The New Legal Liberalism, Emma Kaufman
Context-Specific Seminole Rock Reform, Aneil Kovvali
Assessing the Empirical Upside of Personalized Criminal Procedure, Matthew B. Kugler and Lior Strahilevitz
Imagining an Antisubordinating First Amendment, Genevieve Lakier
Not Such a Fixed Star After All: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, and the Changing Meaning of the First Amendment Right Not To Speak, Genevieve Lakier
Death of God and the Death of Morality, Brian Leiter
Rorty's Rejection of Philosophy, Brian Leiter
The Innocence of Becoming: Nietzsche against Guilt, Brian Leiter
Convergence and then Downstream Divergence in Torts and other Law, Saul Levmore
Labor Markets in Statistics: The Subject Supply Effect in Medical R&D, Anup Malani and Tomas J. Philipson
Patents, Property, and Prospectivity, Jonathan Masur and Adam Mortara
Norming in Administrative Law, Jonathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Civil Servant Disobedience, Jennifer Nou
Regulatory Bundling, Jennifer Nou and Jed Stiglitz
Disparate Impact, Unified Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Living Constitution and Moral Progress: A Comment On Professor Young’s Boden Lecture, David A. Strauss
Against Intolerance: The Red Scare Roots Of Legal Liberalism, Laura Weinrib
Financial Services Under A Consumption Tax: Grubert and Mackie (2000) Revisited, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2018
Why Limits on Contributions to Super PACs Should Survive Citizens United, Albert W. Alschuler, Laurence H. Tribe, Norman Eisen, and Richard W. Painter
Panel on Rules Versus Standards in Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation, Akhil Reed Amar, Frank H. Easterbrook, John C. Harrison, and William Francis Kuntz II
The Tax Legislative Process: A Byrd's Eye View, Ellen P. Aprill and Daniel Hemel
The Bankruptcy Partition, Douglas G. Baird, Anthony Casey, and Randal C. Picker
Caveat IRS: Problems with Abandoning the Full Deduction Rule, Joseph Bankman, David Gamage, Jacob Goldin, and Daniel Hemel
Is Qualified Immunity Unlawful?, William Baude
Originalism as a Constraint on Judges, William Baude
Arguing with Friends, William Baude and Ryan D. Doerfler
Compelled Subsidies and the First Amendment, William Baude and Eugene Volokh
Bringing the World's Constitutions to the Classroom, Jesse Baugher, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg
Data Driven Contract Interpretation: Discovering Plain Meaning through Quantitative Methods, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Restoration Remedy in Private Law, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
The Myth of Trade Usages: A Talk, Lisa Bernstein
The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity, Adam Bonica, Adam S. Chilton, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
Exiting Congressional-Executive Agreements, Curtis A. Bradley
Presidential Control over International Law, Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith
Treaty Exit in the United States: Insights from the United Kingdom or South Africa?, Curtis A. Bradley and Laurence R. Helfer
Analysing the Law's Effects on Human Well-Being: A Comparative Perspective, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
Intelligent Design, Christopher Buccafusco, Mark Lemley, and Jonathan Masur
From Executive Appointment to the Collegium System: The Impact on Diversity in the Indian Supreme Court, Aparna Chandra, William Hubbard, and Sital Kalantry
Competition Law Around the World from 1889 to 2010: The Competition Law Index, Adam S. Chilton and Anu Bradford
Optimal Design of Guest Worker Programs: An Introduction, Adam S. Chilton, Tom Ginsburg, and Eric A. Posner
Country Specific Investments and the Rights of Non-Citizens, Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
Treaties and Human Rights: The Role of Long-Term Trends, Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
Why Countries Sign Bilateral Labor Agreements, Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
Courts’ Limited Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights, Adam S. Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Revisiting the Uneasy Case for Corporate Taxation in an Uneasy World, Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
International Spillovers from Proposed US Tax Reforms, Dhammika Dharmapala
The Consequences of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act's International Provisions: Lessons from Existing Research, Dhammika Dharmapala
The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India's Companies Act of 2013, Dhammika Dharmapala and Vikramaditya S. Khanna
The Courts, the Schools, and the Constitution, Justin Driver
The Keyes of Constitutional Law, Justin Driver
A Common Law for the First Amendment, Richard A. Epstein
A Not Quite Contemporary View of Privacy, Richard A. Epstein
Positive and Negative Externalities in Real Estate Development, Richard A. Epstein
Regulatory Enforcement Under New York's Martin Act: From Financial Fraud to Global Warming, Richard A. Epstein
Sitaraman’s Mistaken Case for the Middle-Class Constitution, Richard A. Epstein
The Nature of the Religious Firm, Richard A. Epstein
The Role of Exit Rights: What the Theory Of the Firm Says About the Conduct of Brexit Negotiations, Richard A. Epstein
The Supreme Court Tackles Patent Reform: A Series of Articles Examining Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, Richard A. Epstein
The Wrong Rights, or: The Inescapable Weaknesses of Modern Liberal Constitutionalism, Richard A. Epstein
Congress in the Administrative State, Brian D. Feinstein
Judging Judicial Foreclosure, Brian D. Feinstein
Accidents and Aggregates, Lee Anne Fennell
Peter Stein 29.5.1926–7.8.2016., Richard Fentiman, Richard H. Helmholz, David Johnston, and Reinhard Zimmermann
Constitutional Knowledge, Tom Ginsburg
Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law, Tom Ginsburg
Introduction to the Symposium on Thomas Franck, "Emerging Right to Democratic Governance" at 25, Tom Ginsburg
The Jurisprudence of Anti-Erosion, Tom Ginsburg
Who Judges?: Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia and Europe, Tom Ginsburg
Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening, Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
A New Market-Based Approach to Securities Law, Kevin S. Haeberle and M. Todd Henderson
Making a Market for Corporate Disclosure, Kevin S. Haeberle and M. Todd Henderson
Economic Analysis in Labor Regulation, Hiba Hafiz
Picketing in the New Economy, Hiba Hafiz
Book Review (reviewing Gratian the Theologian by John C. Wei), Richard H. Helmholz
Pope Innocent III and the Annulment of Magna Carta, Richard H. Helmholz
Statutory Interpretation - Then and Now, Richard H. Helmholz
