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 2010
What Good Is Habeas?, Aziz Huq
Federalists, Federalism and Federal Jurisdiction, Alison LaCroix
Temporal Imperialism, Alison LaCroix
Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What Is the Issue?, Brian Leiter
Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: A Comment on Professor Szubka, Brian Leiter
The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism, Brian Leiter
The Radicalism of Legal Positivism, Brian Leiter
Booker Reconsidered, Jonathan Masur
Patent Inflation, Jonathan Masur
Retribution and the Experience of Punishment, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco
Randomization and the Fourth Amendment, Tracey L. Meares and Bernard E. Harcourt
The Institutional Dynamics of Transition Relief, Jonathan Remy Nash and Jonathan Masur
The Constitution of the Roman Republic: A Political Economy Perspective, Eric A. Posner
Foreign Affairs Legalism: A Critique, Eric A. Posner and Daniel Abebe
Universal Exceptionalism in International Law, Eric A. Posner and Anu Bradford
The Limits of Constitutional Convergence, Eric A. Posner and Rosalind Dixon
Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Jonathan Masur
Low Stakes and Constitutional Interpretation, Adam M. Samaha
On Law's Tiebreakers, Adam M. Samaha
The Story of FCC v. Pacifica Foundatin (and Its Second Life), Adam M. Samaha
Pseudonymous Litigation, Lior Strahilevitz
Reunifying Privacy Law, Lior Strahilevitz
Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counter-Terrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, and Aziz Huq
Submissions from 2009
Great Power Politics and the Structure of Foreign Relations Law, Daniel Abebe
A Few Words in Favor of Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace, Mary Anne Case
No Male or Female, but All Are One, Mary Anne Case
Immigration Law's Organizing Principles, Adam B. Cox
A Minimalist Charter of Rights for Australia: The U.K. or Canada as a Model?, Rosalind Dixon
Female Justices, Feminism and the Politics of Judicial Appointment: A Reexamination, Rosalind Dixon
The Supreme Court of Canada, Charter Dialogue and Deference, Rosalind Dixon
Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform: Why the Reid Bill Is Unconstitutional, Richard A. Epstein
Commons, Anticommons, Semicommons, Lee Anne Fennell
The Unbounded Home, Property Values beyond Property Lines, Lee Anne Fennell
Willpower and Legal Policy, Lee Anne Fennell
Controlling Residential Stakes, Lee Anne Fennell and Julie Roin
Ambiguity about Ambiguity: An Empicical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation, Dustin F. Guzior, Ward Farnsworth, and Anup Malani
Henry Louis Gates and Racial Profiling: What's the Problem?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Neoliberal Penality: A Brief Genealogy, Bernard E. Harcourt
Supreme Court Brief of Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners, F. Scott Kieff and Richard A. Epstein
Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect?, Brian Leiter
Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche, Brian Leiter
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Action, Brian Leiter
The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault, Brian Leiter
Why Legal Positivism?, Brian Leiter
Why Legal Positivism?, Brian Leiter
Ambiguous Statutes, Saul Levmore
Welfare as Happiness, Jonathan Masur, Christopher Buccafusco, and John Bronsteen
The Design of a Carbon Tax, Gilbert E. Metcalf and David A. Weisbach
Hiding in Plain Sight? Timing and Transparency in the Administrative State, Anne Joseph O'Connell and Jacob Gersen
Randomization in Criminal Justice: A Criminal Law Conversation, Michael O'Hear, Bernard E. Harcourt, A. Harel, Ken Levy, and Alice Ristroph
The Rights of Migrants, Eric A. Posner and Adam B. Cox
Against Feasibility Analysis, Eric A. Posner and Jonathan Masur
Tyrannophobia, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
The President and Immigration Law, Cristina M. Rodriguez and Adam B. Cox
Randomization in Adjudication, Adam M. Samaha
Gun Control after Heller: Threats and Sideshows from a Social Welfare Perspective, Adam M. Samaha, Philip K. Cook, and Jens Ludwig
The Right to Abandon, Lior Strahilevitz
The Modernizing Mission of Judicial Review, David A. Strauss
Accounting for Differences among Patients in the FDA Approval Process, Mark Van Der Laan, Anup Malani, and Oliver Van Der Bembom
Responsibility for Climate Change, by the Numbers, David A. Weisbach
Responsibility for Climate Change, By the Numbers, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2008
A Nation Divided: Eastern China, Western China, and the Problem of Global Warming, Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur
Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, Shyam Balganesh
After Innocence: Framing Wrongful Convictions, Susan A. Bandes
Emotions, Values and the Construction of Risk, Susan A. Bandes
The Heart Has Its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty, Susan A. Bandes
Victims, "Closure", and the Sociology of Emotion, Susan A. Bandes
Happiness and Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
Delegation and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox
Belief in a Just World, Blaming the Victim, and Hate Crime Statutes, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, and Richard H. McAdams
Adjusting Alienability, Lee Anne Fennell
Slices and Lumps, Lee Anne Fennell
Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg
The Unbundled Executive, Jacob Gersen and Christopher R. Berry
Constitutional Afterlife: The Continuing Impact of Thailand’s Post-Political Constitution, Tom Ginsburg
The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court, Tom Ginsburg
Abolition in the U.S.A. by 2050: On Political Capital and Ordniary Acts of Resistance, Bernard E. Harcourt
Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets, Bernard E. Harcourt
Supposons que la Discipline et la Securite n'Existent Pas~ Rereading Foucault's College de France Lectures, Bernard E. Harcourt and Paul Veyne
Optimal Remedies for Patent Infringement: A Transactional Model, Paul J. Heald
Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypothesis: Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007), Paul J. Heald
Citing Fiction, M. Todd Henderson
The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic, Alison LaCroix
Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches, Brian Leiter
Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered, Brian Leiter
Privatizing Trademarks, Irina Manta
Process as Purpose: Administrative Procedure, Costly Screens and Examination at the Patent Office, Jonathan Masur
Beyond the Prisoner's Dilemma: Coordination, Game Theory, and the Law, Richard H. McAdams
The Political Economy of Criminal Law and Procedure: The Pessimists' View, Richard H. McAdams
Documenting Discrimination?, Thomas J. Miles and Adam B. Cox
Judicial Ideology and the Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Thomas J. Miles and Adam B. Cox
Taxes and the Success of Non-Tax Market-Based Environmental Regulatory Regimes, Jonathan Remy Nash
The Majority that Wasn't: Stare Decisis, Majority Rule and the Mischief of Quorum Requirements, Jonathan Remy Nash
The Uneasy Case for Transjurisdictional Adjudication, Jonathan Remy Nash
Deadlines in Administrative Law, Anne Joseph O'Connell and Jacob Gersen
Expanding Restitution: Liability for Unrequested Benefits, Ariel Porat
Aggregating Probabilities across Offences in Criminal Law, Ariel Porat and Alon Harel
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
Erga Omnes Norms, Institutionalization, and Constitutionalism in International Law, Eric A. Posner
