The Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers series is organized by the Law School and covers constitutional law, statutory interpretation, intellectual property, family law, jurisprudence, civil procedure, voting rights, legal history, criminal law and procedure, privacy, and international law. Links to full-text are provided.
Submissions from 2014
Trade Usage in the Courts: The Flawed Conceptual and Evidentiary Basis of Article 2’s Incorporation Strategy, Lisa Bernstein
Well-Being and Public Policy, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
Addressing Minority Vote Dilution Through State Voting Rights Acts, Paige A. Epstein
Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell
Fairness in Law and Economics: Introduction, Lee Anne Fennell and Richard H. McAdams
Judicial Roles in Nonjudicial Functions, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg
Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton
Introduction, Chapter 1 of Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
Nuisance Suits, William Hubbard
The Discovery Sombrero, and Other Metaphors for Litigation, William Hubbard
Do Judges Follow the Law? An Empirical Test of Congressional Control Over Judicial Behavior, William Hubbard and M. Todd Henderson
Coasean Bargaining over the Structural Constitution, 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 Shadow Powers of Article I, Alison LaCroix
The Invention of Low-Value Speech, Genevieve Lakier
Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism, Brian Leiter
Preface to the Paperback Edition of Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter
The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter
The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy, Brian Leiter
Credible Threats, Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
[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
Deference Mistakes, Jonathan Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
The Psychology of Corporate Rights, Avital Mentovich, Aziz Huq, and Moran Cerf
Sub-Regulating Elections, Jennifer Nou
Valuable Lies, Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
Martii Koskenniemi on Human Rights: An Empirical Perspective, Eric A. Posner
Voting Rules in International Organizations, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulations: A Response to Criticisms, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Aligning Campaign Finance Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Teaching Election Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee
Distributionally-Weighted Cost Benefit Analysis: Welfare Economics Meets Organizational Design, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2013
One Voice or Many? The Political Question Doctrine and Acoustic Dissonance in Foreign Affairs, Daniel Abebe
Foreign Affairs Federalism: A Revisionist Approach, Daniel Abebe and Aziz Huq
Lafler and Frye: Two Small Band-Aids for a Festering Wound, Albert W. Alschuler
Bankruptcy Step Zero, Douglas G. Baird and Anthony Casey
Crowdsourcing Land Use, Lee Anne Fennell
Forcings, Lee Anne Fennell
Property in Housing, Lee Anne Fennell
Exactions Creep, Lee Anne Fennell and Eduardo Peñalver
Patent Invalidity versus Noninfringement, Roger Ford
Political Constraints on International Courts, Tom Ginsburg
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, Tom Ginsburg, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Zachary Elkins
The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps', Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon
Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice, Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and Beth Simmons
'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles, Tom Ginsburg, Nick Foti, and Daniel Rockmore
Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law, Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard H. McAdams
Beccaria's 'On Crimes and Punishments': A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
'Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment': A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session, Bernard E. Harcourt, Gary S. Becker, and François Ewald
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Shady Grove v. Allstate on Forum Shopping in the New York Courts, William Hubbard
A Theory of Pleading, William Hubbard
Federalism, Liberty, and Risk in NIFB v. Sebelius, Aziz Huq
Removal as a Political Question, Aziz Huq
Standing for the Structural Constitution, Aziz Huq
The Social Production of National Security, Aziz Huq
Tiers of Scrutiny in Enumerated Powers Jurisprudence, Aziz Huq
Women in Prison in Argentina: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences, Sital Kalantry
Historical Gloss: A Primer, Alison LaCroix
The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment, Alison LaCroix
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon, Brian Leiter
Why Legal Positivism (Again), Brian Leiter
Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases, Anup Malani and Jonathan Masur
Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law, Jonathan Masur and Christopher Buccafusco
Policing Immigration, Thomas J. Miles and Adam B. Cox
Agency Self-Insulation Under Presidential Review, Jennifer Nou
Inside or Outside the System?, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Elections and Alignment, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The Consequences of Consequentialist Criteria, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
The South After Shelby County, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Toward a Positive Theory of Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data, Lior Strahilevitz and Ariel Porat
Submissions from 2012
Rethinking the Costs of International Delegations, Daniel Abebe
The Global Determinants of U.S. Foreign Affairs Law, Daniel Abebe
Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures, Gary S. Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard E. Harcourt
Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design, Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg
Lumpy Property, Lee Anne Fennell
Picturing Takings, Lee Anne Fennell
The Problem of Resource Access, Lee Anne Fennell
Courts and New Democracies: Recent Works, Tom Ginsburg
When to Overthrow Your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, and Mila Versteeg
Fantasies and Illusions: On Liberty, Order and Free Markets, Bernard E. Harcourt
On the American Paradox of Laissez Faire and Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt
Punitive Preventive Justice: A Critique, Bernard E. Harcourt
The Politics of Incivility, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reverse Regulatory Arbitrage: An Auction Approach to Regulatory Assignments, M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung
Binding the Executive (by Law or by Politics), Aziz Huq
Enforcing (But Not Defending) 'Unconstitutional' Laws, Aziz Huq
Forum Choice for Terrorism Suspects, Aziz Huq
Preserving Political Speech from Ourselves and Others, Aziz Huq
Private Religious Discrimination, National Security, and the First Amendment, Aziz Huq
Structural Constitutionalism as Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq
The Institution Matching Canon, Aziz Huq
When Was Judicial Self-Restraint, Aziz Huq
Eavesdropping on the Vox Populi, Alison LaCroix
On Being 'Bound Thereby', Alison LaCroix