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 2009
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
Human Welfare, Not Human Rights, Eric A. Posner
Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts?, Eric A. Posner, Stephen J. Choi, and G. Mitu Gulati
Soft Law, Eric A. Posner and Jacob Gersen
Which States Enter into Treaties, and Why?, Eric A. Posner and Thomas J. Miles
Crisis Governance in the Administrative State: 9/11 and the Financial Meltdown of 2008, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
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
Adolescent Risk-Taking and Social Meaning: A Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein
Beyond Judicial Minimalism, 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, Cass R. Sunstein
Trimming, Cass R. Sunstein
Two Concepts of Irreversible Environmental Harm, Cass R. Sunstein
Four Failures of Deliberating Groups, Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie
Depoliticizing Administrative Law, Cass R. Sunstein and Thomas J. Miles
Should Green House Gas Permits be Allocated on a Per Capita Basis?, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
Conspiracy Theories, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Overreaction to Fearsome Risks, Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Zeckhauser
Behavioral Criminal Law and Economics, Thomas S. Ulen and Richard H. McAdams
Submissions from 2007
Demystifying the Right to Exclude: Of Property, Inviolability, and Automatic Injunctions, Shyam Balganesh
Contraindicated Drug Courts, Josh Bowers
Grassroots Plea Bargaining, Josh Bowers
Punishing the Innocent, Josh Bowers