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 2024
Predictability and Adaptation in Law and other Markets (chapter in a coming book: Research Handbook on Law and Time), Saul Levmore
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
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
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
Data Federalism, Bridget Fahey
Submerged Independent Agencies, Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
Optional Price Discrimination, Lee Anne Fennell
Streaming Property, Lee Anne Fennell
The Gun and the Paperweight: Risk Control Services and Disservices, Lee Anne Fennell
The United States as the Ultimate Tax Haven, Daniel Hemel
Militant Democracy Comes to the Metaverse, Aziz Z. Huq
The Counter-Democratic Difficulty, Aziz Z. Huq
What we ask of law, Aziz Z. Huq
Digital Privacy for Reproductive Choice in the Post-Roe Era, Aziz Z. Huq and Rebecca Wexler
Stark Choices for Corporate Reform, Aneil Kovval
Toward a "Tender Offer" Market for Labor Representation, Aneil Kovvali and Jonathan R. Macey
Appellate Panels of One, Saul Levmore
Reasoning and Precedents in Appellate Courts, Saul Levmore
Checks, Not Balances, Joshua Macey and Brian Richardson
Horizontal Collusion and Parallel Wage-Setting in Labor Markets, Johnathan Masur and Eric A. Posner
Criminogenic Risks of Interrogation, Richard H. McAdams and Margareth Etienne
Regulatory Diffusion, Jennifer Nou and Julian Nyarko
Strategic Rulemaking Disclosure, Jennifer Nou and Edward H. Stiglitz
Our Constitutionalism of Force, Farah Peterson
Cash Substitution and Deferred Consumption as Data Breach Harms, Lior Strahilevitz and Lisa Yao Liu
Submissions from 2021
Framing Vaccine Mandates: Messenger and Message Effects, Christopher Buccafusco and Daniel Hemel
Assessing Affirmative Action's Diversity Rationale, Adam Chilton, Justin Driver, Jonathan S. Masur, and Kyle Rozema
Designing Supreme Court Term Limits, Adam Chilton, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen
Late-Stage Textualism, Ryan D. Doerfler
Congress’s Commissioners: Former Hill Staffers at the S.E.C. and Other Independent Regulatory Commissions, Brian D. Feinstein and M. Todd Henderson
Escape Room: Implicit Takings After Cedar Point Nursery, Lee Anne Fennell
Visibility and Indivisibility in Resource Arrangements, Lee Anne 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 S. Abrahams
The Future of Liberal Democracy in the International Legal Order, Tom Ginsburg
The Institutional Context of the International Court of Justice, Tom Ginsburg
The Law of Democratic Disqualification, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq, and David Landau
Regulation and Redistribution with Lives in the Balance, Daniel J. Hemel
Revitalizing the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Daniel J. Hemel and Robert Lord
Equalizing the Tax Treatment of Stock Buybacks and Dividends, Daniel J. Hemel and Gregg D. Polsky
Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law, Aziz Z. Huq
The Discrete Charm of Leveling Down, Aziz Z. Huq
The Public Trust in Data, Aziz Z. Huq
Shining a Light on Dark Patterns, Jamie Luguri and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Promoting Regulatory Prediction, Johnathan S. Masur and Jonathan Remy Nash
Property Law for the Ages, Michael C. Pollack and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
The Limits of International Law Fifteen Years Later, Eric A. Posner and Jack L. Goldsmith
Submissions from 2020
Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules, Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being, Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan S. Masur
Toward the Democratic Regulation of AI Systems: A Prolegomenon, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq
Outside Advisers Inside Agencies, Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel
State Politics and Mortgage Markets, Brian D. Feinstein, Chen Meng, and Manisha Padi
Owning Bad: Leverage and Spite in Property Law, Lee Anne Fennell
Property as the Law of Complements, Lee Anne Fennell
Remixing Resources, Lee Anne Fennell
Sizing Up Categories, Lee Anne Fennell
The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic, Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
The Wandering Officer, Ben Grunwald and John Rappaport
Indexing, Unchained, Daniel J. Hemel
Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis, Daniel J. Hemel and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
A Public Health Framework for COVID-19 Business Liability, Daniel Hemel and Daniel B. Rodriguez
Constitutional Rights in the Machine Learning State, Aziz Z. Huq
Illiberalism and Islam, Aziz Z. Huq
Death as Divorce for the Abandoned Spouse: Davis v. Combes and the Cautious and Gender-Sensitive Judiciary, Saul Levmore
MOPR Madness, Joshua C. Macey and Robert Ward
Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
Policy Implications of the Common Ownership Debate, Eric Posner
Changing Places, Changing Taxes: Exploiting Tax Discontinuities, Julie Roin
The Legal Envelope Theorem, David A. Weisbach and Daniel J. Hemel
Submissions from 2019
The Unconstitutionality of Justice Black, William Baude
Abortion, the Disabilities of Pregnancy, and the Dignity of Risk, Mary Anne Case
Economies of Surveillance, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq
Privacy’s Political Economy and the State of Machine Learning, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Aziz Z. Huq
Imputing Unreported Hate Crimes Using Google Search Data, Dhammika Dharmapala and Aziz Huq
How Clear Is "Clear" Enough?, Ryan D. Doerfler
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Rules, Standards, and Judicial Discretion, Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore
Property Attachments, Lee Anne Fennell
Property Beyond Exclusion, Lee Anne Fennell
Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (Intro + Ch 1), Lee Anne Fennell
The Architecture of a Basic Income, Miranda Perry Fleischer and Daniel Hemel
The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Impeachment, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, and David Landau