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Papers from 2010

A Right to Silence for Civil Defendants?, Abraham L. Wickelgren (January 1, 2010)

Papers from 2009

The Idea of Police in China, Kam C. Wong (July 1, 2009)

The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions, Jacob E. Gersen and Christopher R. Berry (June 1, 2009)

Less Can Be More: Conflicting Ballot Proposals and the Highest Vote Rule, Michael D. Gilbert and Joshua M. Levine (June 1, 2009)

Least Cost Avoidance: The Tragedy of the Common Safety, Nuno Garoupa and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (April 1, 2009)

U.S. Patent Law (with M. Addy) (forthcoming 2009), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2009)

A Theory of Judicial Power and Judicial Review, David S. Law (April 1, 2009)

Policing with Chinese Characteristics, Kam C. Wong (April 1, 2009)

A General Theory of Community Policing, Kam C. Wong (March 12, 2009)

Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal, Theodore Eisenberg and Michael Heise (January 1, 2009)

Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, Michael E. Lewyn (January 1, 2009)

The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, Richard Albert (January 1, 2009)

Soft Law, Jacob E. Gersen and Eric A. Posner (January 1, 2009)

The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation, Brad Borden (January 1, 2009)

The Child Protection Pretense, James G. Dwyer (January 1, 2009)

International Trade Law: Cases and Materials, Aspen Publishers, Andrew T. Guzman and Joost Pauwelyn (January 1, 2009)

Justifications for Tax Exemption, Evelyn Brody (January 1, 2009)

Nonconstitutional Amendments, Richard Albert (January 1, 2009)

Anticompetitive Trade Remedies (forthcoming), Sungjoon Cho (January 1, 2009)

Police Education in China, Kam C. Wong (January 1, 2009)

Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg (January 1, 2009)

Judicial Independence and Party Politics in the Kelsenian Constitutional Courts: The Case of Portugal, Nuno Garoupa, Sofia Amaral Garcia, and Veronica Grembi (January 1, 2009)

A Brief History of Corporation Law (forthcoming), RICHARD A. BOOTH (January 1, 2009)

Appraisal & Valuation in Corporation Law (forthcoming), RICHARD A. BOOTH (January 1, 2009)

The Nature of Rights, Siegfried Van Duffel (January 1, 2009)

Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law, Maxwell L. Stearns and Todd Zywicki (January 1, 2009)

Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?, Matthew Freedman, Fredrik Andersson, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, and Kathryn Shaw (January 1, 2009)

Interest as Damages, John Y. Gotanda and Theirry Senechal (January 1, 2009)

Sprawl in Europe And America, Michael E. Lewyn (January 1, 2009)

Cross-Examining Film, Jessica M. Silbey (January 1, 2009)

The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg (January 1, 2009)

Papers from 2008

Presentation: A Continuity of Congress Proposal, Seth Barrett Tillman (December 1, 2008)

Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry, Kimberly D. Krawiec (December 1, 2008)

Fantasy Crime, Susan Brenner (November 19, 2008)

Law and the Poverty of Nations, Robert D. Cooter and Hans Bernd Schaefer (November 1, 2008)

A Unified Theory of 28 U.S.C. § 1331 Jurisdiction, Lumen N. Mulligan (November 1, 2008)

Corso: Istituti di tutela del patrimonio, Thomas Tassani (October 2, 2008)

A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, Scott Dodson (October 1, 2008)

The (Not So) Puzzling Behavior of Angel Investors, Darian M. Ibrahim (October 1, 2008)

South Carolina Criminal Offenses: Elements and Defenses (in progress), Miller W. Shealy and Margaret Lawton (October 1, 2008)

The Legal Impact of Homeland Security On Businesses, Gregory S. McNeal (October 1, 2008)

Beyond Guantanamo., Gregory S. McNeal (October 1, 2008)

Restitution and the Production of Legal Doctrine, Chaim Saiman (October 1, 2008)

Veiled Impunity: Iran's Use of Non-State Armed Groups, Keith A. Petty (September 1, 2008)

Priceless? The Competitive Costs of Credit Cards, Adam J. Levitin (September 1, 2008)

Inherent Spin Versus Hidden Variables Teorem, Milan Meszaros (September 1, 2008)

Separation of Powers In The Hood, Clif Bennette (September 1, 2008)

Extraterritoriality, Antitrust, and the Pragmatist Style, Justin Desautels-Stein (August 10, 2008)

Medellin and Originalism, D. A. Jeremy Telman (August 7, 2008)

An Empirical Assessment of the Potential for Will Substitutes to Improve State Intestacy Statutes, E. Gary Spitko, Mary Louise Fellows, and Charles Q. Strohm (August 6, 2008)

Hard and soft constitutionalism, Noel Cox (August 5, 2008)

The IDEA Eligibility Mess, Mark C. Weber (August 5, 2008)

Bloodstains on a "Code of Honor", Kenneth Lasson (August 5, 2008)

Combating Terrorism under Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Regime, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman and Borhan Uddin Khan (August 1, 2008)

Evidence - A Contemporary Approach, Sydney Aaron Beckman, Susan Crump, and Fred Galves (August 1, 2008)

Evidence: A Video Library, Sydney Aaron Beckman and Miller Shealy (August 1, 2008)

A Study of Interest, John Y. Gotanda (August 1, 2008)

Against Freedom of Commercial Expression, Tamara R. Piety (August 1, 2008)

Ten Facts About Fundamental Tax Reform, Edward J. McCaffery (July 31, 2008)

The Unlawful Conduct Defense in Legal Malpractice, Vincent R. Johnson (July 30, 2008)

American Legal Ethics in an Age of Anxiety, Michael Ariens (July 30, 2008)

AN ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PEER REVIEW IMMUNITY IN TEXAS:, Lamar Odom and John A. Daniels (July 29, 2008)

Behavioral Public Finance, Edward J. McCaffery (July 29, 2008)

Reply in Support of Certiorari in Ruiz-Rivera v. Pfizer, Samuel R. Bagenstos (July 28, 2008)

Creating a Torture Culture, Alan Clarke (July 23, 2008)

Life After Oil, Michael E. Lewyn (July 22, 2008)

A Better Path for Constitutional Tort Law, John M. Greabe (July 21, 2008)

Evangelizing Climate Change, Albert C. Lin (July 21, 2008)

Tellabs v. Makor: One Year Later, John D. Castiglione (July 21, 2008)

Faint-Hearted Precommitments in National-Security Law, Jonathan F. Mitchell (July 17, 2008)

Homeland Security Challenges of Global Climate Change, Patrick E. Tolan (July 15, 2008)

Senate Testimony on the ADA Amendments Act, Samuel R. Bagenstos (July 15, 2008)

The Real ID Act: Is it Really Worth it?, Sheena Eastman (July 14, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (PDF FORMAT), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (July 5, 2008)

Copyright and Fair Use in the New Digital Age, Jonathan R. Medina (July 4, 2008)

Heller, the Second Amendment, and the Right to Arms, Clayton E. Cramer (July 3, 2008)

International Law and Islamic Law, Mashood A. Baderin (July 1, 2008)

Smoke and Mirrors: An Escomateur as an Expert Witness, Sydney Aaron Beckman (July 1, 2008)

South Carolina Family Code Annotated, Sydney Aaron Beckman and Judge Kaye Hearn (July 1, 2008)

The Like-Kind Exchange Equity Conundrum, Brad Borden (July 1, 2008)

Election Law Violations, A. David Pardo (July 1, 2008)

Accidental Privacy Spills, James Grimmelmann (July 1, 2008)

PRC Police Major Events - 1949 - 1978 - Data, Kam C. Wong (July 1, 2008)

Rumors of War, Kam C. Wong (July 1, 2008)

The Mouse Roars! Rhode Island High Court Rejects Expansion of Public Nuisance, Richard O. Faulk, John S. Gray, and Thomas R. Bender (July 1, 2008)

Why class actions are a dangerous mistake in Latin America, Juan Javier del Granado (July 1, 2008)

Legal Families and Research in Comparative Law, Jaakko Husa (June 30, 2008)

Book Review of "How Judges Think" by Richard Posner, charles D. Kelso and R. Randall Kelso (June 30, 2008)

Externalities and Pay as You Drive Auto Insurance, Aaron S. Edlin (June 30, 2008)

Education for Judicial Aspirants, Keith R. Fisher (June 27, 2008)

The Economic Merits of Theoretical Non-Infinging Alternatives, Christopher P. Wazzan (June 24, 2008)

Retained by the People, charles D. Kelso (June 24, 2008)

Lots of It, Michael E. Lewyn (June 24, 2008)

Like-Kind Exchanges of Personal-Use Residences, Brad Borden and Alex Hamrick (June 23, 2008)

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: What's It All About?, Kimberlee G. Weatherall (June 20, 2008)

The Economic Realities of Immigration in the United States: Implications for Policy, Emily A. Harrell and David L. Franklin (June 18, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (PDF FORMAT), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (June 14, 2008)

EFFICIENCY IN REGISTRATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY, Celia Martinez-Escribano (June 10, 2008)

The concept of Renvoi in the Conflict of Laws, Abhishek Bharti (June 10, 2008)

In the Name of Efficiency, Scott Shackelford (June 7, 2008)

Reviving the Forgotten American Dream, Geoffrey D. Korff (June 5, 2008)

On the Nature of Forgiveness and Vengeance, Theodore Y. Blumoff (June 4, 2008)

Patent Search, Kaviraj Singh (June 2, 2008)

"William Littell, Kurt X. Metzmeier (June 1, 2008)

Tax Equity, Anthony C. Infanti (June 1, 2008)

Renegotiation of Cash Flow Rights in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms, Brian Broughman and Jesse Fried (June 1, 2008)

Overcoming the Economic Bariers To Climate Change and Energy Security, Jason Bordoff, Jason Furman, Manasi Deshpande, and Pascal Noel (June 1, 2008)

Policing Hong Kong Police in the Use of Force, Kam C. Wong (June 1, 2008)

The DeGentrification of New Markets Tax Credits, Roger M. Groves (June 1, 2008)

Jacksonville: Not So Driver Friendly, Michael E. Lewyn (May 30, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US, Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (May 26, 2008)

China and Africa: A Response, Flavio G. I. Inocencio (May 26, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US, Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (May 26, 2008)

Judicial Paradoxes, Randolph R. Goldman (May 19, 2008)

The High Costs of Shareholder Participation, Harry G. Hutchison (May 16, 2008)

A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Obstacles to Institutional Investor Activism in Europe and in the Us, enrico baffi, paolo santella, carlo drago, and dino lattuca (May 16, 2008)

Are You a Boy or a Girl? Show Me Your Real ID, James J. McGrath (May 12, 2008)

Study of Policing in China, Kam C. Wong (May 12, 2008)

Growing Threat to Land-In-Trust Statute, Matthew L.M. Fletcher (May 9, 2008)

THE TRADEMARK TRAP, Aneta Ferguson (May 8, 2008)

Saiban In Seido: Lost in Translation?, Douglas G. Levin (May 8, 2008)

The National Masturbators Task Force, William B. Turner (May 7, 2008)

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND THE VANISHING TRIAL: COMPARING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LITIGATION AND ADR OUTCOMES, Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Tina Nabatchi, Jeffrey Senger, and Michael Scott Jackman (May 6, 2008)

The Love Song of The Delaware Court of Chancery, David K. Kessler (May 6, 2008)

Vivimos un periodo de cambios de mentalidad y costumbres, José Luis Vargas Aguilar (May 5, 2008)

Redefining Adultery in the Virtual Age, Sydney Aaron Beckman (May 1, 2008)

Automating Contract Law, George Geis (May 1, 2008)

Criminology and Its Discontents, Franklin E. Zimring (May 1, 2008)

Macroeconomic Crises since 1870, José Francisco Ursúa Remírez and Robert Barro (May 1, 2008)

Payment Sequence in Winding Up: A Critique of Corporate Insolvency, Dyutimoy Mukherjee and Jeevan Ballav Panda (May 1, 2008)

Cyber Embargo: Countering the Internet Jihad, Gregory S. McNeal (May 1, 2008)

Information and the Cost of Capital: An Ex-Ante Perspective, Peter O. Christensen, Leonidas E. de la Rosa, and Gerald A. Feltham (May 1, 2008)

Il contratto di mediazione nel diritto tedesco, Valerio Sangiovanni (May 1, 2008)

Rights as Fairness, James M. Donovan (May 1, 2008)

Energy Polarization and Popular Representation: Evidence from the Russian Duma, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis and Benno Torgler (April 28, 2008)

Title VII and Gender Nonconformity in Men, Colleen M. Keating (April 27, 2008)

Einstein's Theory of Taxation, William A. Drennan (April 25, 2008)

Commentator, Beyond Intimacy (Laura Rosenbury), Robin Effron (April 24, 2008)

Integrated Sovereignty, Philip M. Nichols (April 23, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (POWERPOINT), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (April 23, 2008)

Patent Trolls and Patent-Busters, Matthew Rimmer (April 21, 2008)

THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL LAW, Timothy Keefe (April 18, 2008)

Entrenched Inequity: Health Care in the United States of America, Jean Connolly Carmalt, Sarah Zaidi, and Alicia Ely Yamin (April 18, 2008)

JUST NOT WHO WE ARE: A CRITIQUE OF COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM, Andrew C. Spiropoulos (April 18, 2008)

Effect of the Shape of the Baffles on the Hydrodynamics of a Fluidized Bed, Srinivasa Rao Venkata Naga Kaza (April 16, 2008)

Happy Fifth Birthday to JHSEM, Claire B. Rubin (April 16, 2008)

The National Masturbators Task Force, William B. Turner (April 16, 2008)

Is the Right to Vote Really Fundamental?, Joshua A. Douglas (April 16, 2008)

THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL LAW, Timothy Keefe (April 16, 2008)

Time to Revive Puerto Rican Voting Rights, Katherine Culliton (April 14, 2008)

Applying Rule 404, Renee A. Pistone (April 13, 2008)

Privacy in Federal Courts, Allyson W. Haynes (April 11, 2008)

Foreign Tax Credit Arbitrage, eric silver (April 9, 2008)

Get Rid of the Patent Absurdities, Matthew Rimmer (April 9, 2008)

The End of the Red Queen's Race: Medical Marijuana in the New Century, Ruth C. Stern and J. Herbie DiFonzo (April 8, 2008)

Book Review, Eric Heinze (April 8, 2008)

Book Review, Eric Heinze (April 8, 2008)

The SEC's 2006 Soft Dollar Guidance: Law and Economics, D. Bruce Johnsen (April 7, 2008)

Terrorist Financing & Counterfeit Currency, Cenan Al-Ekabi (April 4, 2008)

Is That a Bundle in Your Pocket, Or . . .?, Allison Hayward (April 3, 2008)

Clearly, Using Intensifiers Is Very Bad--Or Is It?, Lance N. Long and William F. Chistensen (April 2, 2008)

Free Speech and Human Dignity, Steven J. Heyman (April 1, 2008)

Patent Litigation and Strategy (with K. Moore & P. Michel), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

Mixing Property, Amnon Lehavi (April 1, 2008)

Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine, David A. Hoffman, Alan J. Izenman, and Jeffrey R. Lidicker (April 1, 2008)

The Case for the Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, Becky Freeman, Simon Chapman, and Matthew Rimmer (April 1, 2008)

Economics as Context for Contract Law, George Geis (April 1, 2008)

CAFA's Impact on Litigation as a Public Good, Elizabeth C. Burch (April 1, 2008)

Extraterritoriality in U.S. Patent Law, Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

Patents for Poets, Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

The Jurisprudence of Notice and Comment, Jamison E. Colburn (April 1, 2008)

A Course in Ethics and Economics, Mario J. Rizzo (April 1, 2008)

International E-Discovery: Navigating the Maze, Erica M. Davila (April 1, 2008)

Private Parties and WTO Dispute Settlement System, alberto alemanno (April 1, 2008)

Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance, Jason Bordoff (April 1, 2008)

Rhetoric Counts: What We Should Teach When We Teach Posner, Kathleen M. O'Neill (April 1, 2008)

Thurgood Marshall's Bill of Rights for Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak (April 1, 2008)

Ethical Judicial Opinion Writing, Gerald Lebovits (April 1, 2008)

Trademark Dilution Bibliography, Don E. Reeve (April 1, 2008)

Effective Oral Argument: 15 Points in 15 Minutes, Gerald Lebovits (April 1, 2008)

Typical contracts versus typical torts: an economic analysis, Juan Javier del Granado (April 1, 2008)

The Ghost in Our Genes: Legal and Ethical Implications of Epigenetics, Gary E. Marchant, Mark A. Rothstein, and Yu Cai (March 31, 2008)

Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.5), Chris Hoofnagle (March 31, 2008)

Einstein's Theory of Taxation, William A. Drennan (March 30, 2008)

The Pirates Will Party On!, William A. Drennan (March 30, 2008)

Vertical Price Restraints After Leegin, Edward D. Cavanagh (March 29, 2008)

Economic Substance and the Standard of Review, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz (March 28, 2008)

Tracing the Contours of the Ninth Amendment, Alan Tauber (March 28, 2008)

Why Every Law Student Should Be A Gunner, Robert M. Lloyd (March 28, 2008)

Can Tax Policy Stop Human Trafficking?, Diane L. Fahey (March 27, 2008)

Making Civil Society Meaningful in Independent Kosovo, Henry H. Perritt (March 27, 2008)

Religion in the Schools, Mark Strasser (March 26, 2008)

Ending Liberalism's Holy War against the Holy?, Anne SY Cheung and Puja Kapai (March 25, 2008)

Leave Those Orcs Alone: Property Rights in Virtual Worlds, Kevin E. Deenihan (March 25, 2008)

The Role of Economic Emergency Situation Determinations in Expediting Fire Salvage, Melanie Stidham, Gwen Busby, and K. Norman Johnson (March 24, 2008)

Why Every Law Student Should Be A Gunner, Robert M. Lloyd (March 23, 2008)

Built in Obsolescence: The Coming End to the Abortion Debate, Vernellia R. Randall and Tshaka C. Randall (March 22, 2008)

Legal Archaeology, Julie Novkov (March 21, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (POWERPOINT), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (March 21, 2008)

Credit Cards and Bankruptcy, Todd J. Zywicki (March 20, 2008)