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 2025
StubHub for Courts? Technology, Markets, and New Solutions to Court Congestion, Ronen Avraham and William H. J. Hubbard
Informative Jury Disagreement, Roy Baharad
Fear of Balancing, William Baude
Yes, The Founders Were Originalists, William Baude
When the Executive Has Unclean Hands, William Baude and Samuel L. Bray
Safety Score Liability, Omri Ben-Shaharz
The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, and Katerina Linos
Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Authority, Curtis Bradley
The Supreme Court Under Threat: Early Lessons in Judicial Self- Protection, Curtis Bradley and Neil S. Siegel
Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases, Samuel L. Bray
Remedies in the First Hundred Days of Trump II: A Gently Adversarial Collaboration, Samuel Bray and James E. Pfander
Purdue Pharma and the New Bankruptcy Exceptionalism, Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey
Forced Migration and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya Refugees, Adam Chilton, Katerina Linos, and Anup Malani
Constitutional Drafting Processes and Constitutional Success, Adam Chilton, Murat C. Mungan, and Mila Versteeg
Do Constitutional Unamendability Rules Make a Difference?, Adam Chilton and Mila Vertseeg
Bargaining in the Shadow of the EFAA, Samuel Cole
The Society Cases, Adam A. Davidson
From WTP to WTF: Valuation and Distributive Discourse, Lee Anne Fennell
Owning Marriage in Robinson's Gilead Novels, Lee Anne Fennell
Space Over Time: Housing for the Life Cycle, Lee Anne Fennell
The Exactions Illusion: Sheetz's Missing Dissent, Lee Anne Fennell and Timothy M. Mulvaney
Machine-Learning Human Rights, Han‐Wei Ho, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
Islands of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining a Democratic Digital Public Sphere, Aziz Z. Huq
On Disciplining States, Aziz Z. Huq
Structural Logics of Presidential Immunity, Aziz Z. Huq
Agonistic Federalism, Aziz Z. Huq and Zachary D. Clopton
Family, Faith and Nation: The Roberts Court and the Global Pivot Against Legal Liberalism, Aziz Z. Huq and Tom Ginsburg
The Economics of Healthcare Fraud, Jetson Leder-Luis and Anup Malani
Bypassing Agency Adjudication, Brian Lipshutz
A Meditation on the Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Redemption, Darrell A.H. Miller
Falsifying Tradition, Darrell A.H. Miller
Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State, Jennifer Nou
Can AI Hold Office Hours?, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Amy R. Motomura, Jason Reinecke, and Jonathan S. Masur
The Tom Sawyer Effect: Invisible Work And Labor Market Power, Eric A. Posner
Algorithmic Selection of Iconic Constitutions, Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
The Genesis of Constitutions: A Natural Language Processing Approach, Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, and Tom Ginsburg
Pillar Two: Much Ado About Next to Nothing?, Julie Roin
Function Over Form in Federal Drug Sentencing, Alison Siegler and Grant Delaune
Pretrial Detention Without Counsel, Alison M. Siegler and Jaden M. Lessnick
The Constitution and the War on DEI, Sonja A. Starr and Genevieve Lakier
Taxing Corporate Payouts, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2024
Which Constitutional Provisions Are Most Important?, Richard Albert, Netta Barak Corren, Daniel M. Brinks, Adam Chilton, Rosalind Dixon, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, Ran Hirschl, David Landau, Ashley Moran, Yvonne Tew, and Mila Versteeg
The Sweep and Force of Section Three, William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
Ideological Concordance Between Students and Professors, Adam Bonica
Disfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal CourtsCurtis Bradley, Curtis Bradley and Tara Leigh Grove
Trade Secrecy's Information Paradox, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Deepa Varadarajan
Kalven For Corporations: Should For-Profit Corporations Adopt Public Statement Policies?, Anthony Casey and Tom Tom Ginsburg
Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Legal Profession, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, and Sarath Sanga
How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?, Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
Administrative Enslavement, Adam Davidson
Criminal Procedure in a Time of Abolition, Adam Davidson
Guido Calabresi’s “Other Justice Reasons”, Adam Davidson
The Shadow of the Law of the Police, Adam Davidson
Unwritten Administrative Law and the Regulatory Last Mile, Anthony B. Derron
Bootstrapped: A (Qualified) Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument, Alma Diamond
Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms, Christoph Engel and Richard H. McAdams
The Law of Information States: Evidence from China and the United States, Bridget Fahey, Yuping Lin, and Taisu Zhang
The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and Tarunabh Khaitan
Private Security and Public Police, Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport, and Michael Berg
Structural Logics of Presidential Disqualification: An Essay on Trump v. Anderson, Aziz Z. Huq
The Geopolitics of Digital Regulation, Aziz Z. Huq
The Trouble with Classifications, Aziz Z. Huq
The Constitutional Money Problem, Aziz Z. Huq and Brian D. Galle
Dispatches From Amendment Valley, Alison L. LaCroix
Predictability and Adaptation in Law and other Markets (chapter in a coming book: Research Handbook on Law and Time), Saul Levmore
Cash Substitution and Deferred Consumption as Data Breach Harms, Lisa Yao Liu and Lior Strahilevitz
A New Measure of Surviving Children that Sheds Light on Long-term Trends in Fertility, Anup Malani and Ari Jacob
Disclosure Puzzles in Patent Law, Jonathan S. Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
The Common Political Foundations of Originalism and Cost-benefit Analysis, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
Originalism's Selection Problem, Darrell A.H. Miller
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Vénus Noire, Farah Peterson
The Impossibility of Religious Equality, Zalman Rothschild
The Additionality Double Standard, James Salzman
Admissions Essays After SFFA, Sonja B. Starr
An APA for Tax, David A. Weisbach
Submissions from 2023
Be Careful What You Wish For, Albert W. Alschuler
Twilight-Zone Originalism: The Peculiar Reasoning and Unfortunate Consequences of New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen, Albert W. Alschuler
International Agreements by U.S. States: Federalism, Foreign Affairs, and Constitutional Change, Curtis A. Bradley
Foreign Affairs, Nondelegation, and the Major Questions Doctrine, Curtis Bradley and Jack Landman Goldsmith
The Hidden Judicial Springs of U.S. Foreign Policy, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq
A Constitutional Perspective on Institutional Neutrality, Tom Ginsburg
Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation, Christopher Havasy, Joshua Macey, and Brian Richardson
The Corporate Governance of Public Utilities, Aneil Kovvali and Joshua Macey
Cross-Border Influencers: Democracy and Externalities, Saul Levmore
Investments in The Magnificent Ambersons: Business, Marriage, and Law-Making, Saul Levmore
Sharing where Bargains are Impossible, Saul Levmore and Andrew Verstein
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Real-World Prior Art, Jonathan S. Masur and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing, Jonathan S. Masur, Aurélie Ouss, and John Rappaport
Toward Principled Background Principles in Takings Law, Lior Strahilevitz and Becca Hansen
Climate Change Policy in the International Context: Solving the Carbon Leakage Problem, David A. Weisbach and Samuel S. Kortum
Submissions from 2022
The Corruption of the Pardon Power, Albert Alschuler
Is Quasi-Judicial Immunity Qualified Immunity?, William Baude
The Folk Theory of Well-Being, John Bronsteen, Brian Leiter, Jonathan Masur, and Kevin Tobia
Screening Meaning, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, and Mark P. McKenna
Managing the Police Emergency, Adam Davidson
Personalized Law, Political Power, and the Dangerous Few, Adam Davidson
Procedural Losses and the Pyrrhic Victory of Abolishing Qualified Immunity, Adam Davidson
The Unexpected Costs of Moral Minimization as an Interrogation Tactic, Margareth Etienne and Richard H. McAdams
