Northwestern Law Legal Working Paper Series
Law and Economics Papers
Papers from 2005
Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?, Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff (December 7, 2005)
Judicial Citation to Legislative History: Contextual Theory and Empirical Analysis, Michael B. Abramowicz and Emerson H. Tiller (May 23, 2005)
The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income, Robert H. Sitkoff (May 17, 2005)
Trust as Uncorporation: A Research Agenda, Robert H. Sitkoff (May 17, 2005)
God in the Machine: A New Structural Analysis of Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine, Matthew J. Sag (May 2, 2005)
Further Reflections on the Guillotine, Ronald Jay Allen and Amy Shavell (April 20, 2005)
The Judicial Signaling Game: How Judges Shape their Dockets, Tonja Jacobi (April 6, 2005)
Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive v. Optional Remedies, Ronen Avraham and Zhiyong Liu (April 4, 2005)
Counting Guns in Early America, James T. Lindgren and Justin Lee Heather (March 30, 2005)
Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal, James T. Lindgren (March 30, 2005)
Are Babies Efficient?, Marshall S. Shapo (February 22, 2005)
Commodifying and Banking Pollution Rights, Reducing Innovation, David A. Dana (February 22, 2005)
Handcuffing Justice: The Shaky Empirical Foundations of the Feeney Amendment, Max Matthew Schanzenbach (February 17, 2005)
A Positive Theory of the War Powers Constitution, Jide Nzelibe (February 16, 2005)
Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, Robert H. Sitkoff and Max Matthew Schanzenbach (February 14, 2005)
Remedies for Anticipatory Breach of Contract with Two-Sided Asymmetric Information: A Comparison of Legal Regimes, Ronen Avraham and Zhiyong Lin (February 11, 2005)
The Kiodynamic Theory of Tort, Christopher P. Guzelian (January 17, 2005)
Papers from 2004
Deregulating Telecommunications in Internet Time, James B. Speta (November 30, 2004)
Supermajority Rules and the Judicial Confirmation Process, John McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport (August 4, 2004)
Trigger Happy or Gun Shy? Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts, Richard R.W. Brooks and Kathryn E. Spier (June 14, 2004)
Adequacy of Representation' in Time (Or Why the Result in Stephenson is Correct), David A. Dana (June 7, 2004)
Against Global Governance in the WTO, John McGinnis and Movsesian L. Movsesian (May 17, 2004)
What'd I Say?: Coase, Demsetz and the Unending Externality Debate, Fred S. McChesney (January 23, 2004)
A Good Old Habit, or Just an Old One? Preferential Tax Treatment for Reorganizations, Yariv Brauner (January 23, 2004)
Politics and the Business Corporation, Robert H. Sitkoff (January 5, 2004)
Papers from 2003
Existence Value and Federal Preservation Regulation, David A. Dana (December 23, 2003)
Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency, Robert H. Sitkoff (December 11, 2003)
Irrelevant Internalities, Irrelevant Externalities, and Irrelevant Anxieties, David D. Haddock (August 26, 2003)
Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others, Bruce L. Hay and Kathryn E. Spier (August 19, 2003)
Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game, Richard H. McAdams and Janice Nadler (August 12, 2003)
Legal Negotiation and Communication Technology: How Small Talk Can Facilitate E-mail Dealmaking, Janice Nadler (August 8, 2003)
Why Wonder Bread Lost No Dough: Materiality, Settlements and the FTC's Ad Substantiation Program, Richard S. Higgins and Fred S. McChesney (August 6, 2003)
Talking 'Bout My Antitrust Generation: Competition For and In the Field of Competition Law, Fred S. McChesney (August 5, 2003)
On the Internal Contradictions of the Law of One Price, David D. Haddock, Fred S. McChesney, and William Franklin Shughart (July 28, 2003)
Symmetric Entrenchment: A Constitutional and Normative Theory, Michael B. Rappaport and John McGinnis (June 19, 2003)
Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters, Robert H. Sitkoff (June 8, 2003)
An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law, Robert H. Sitkoff (June 4, 2003)
Papers from 2002
Flouting the Law: Does Perceived Injustice Provoke General Non-Compliance?, Janice Nadler (November 27, 2002)
Access to Networks: Economic and Constitutional Connections, Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo (September 28, 2002)
Roundtable Discussion: Corporate Governance, William J. Carney, Jack B. Jacobs, Richard W. Painter, Robert Pritzker, and Robert H. Sitkoff (July 29, 2002)
Papers from 2001
The Use of 'Most-Favored-Nation' Clauses in Settlement of Litigation, Kathryn E. Spier (November 5, 2001)
Real Time: Governing the Market After the Failure of Knowledge, Annelise Riles (June 7, 2001)
Counting Guns in Early America, James T. Lindgren and Justin Lee Heather (June 2, 2001)
Papers from 2000
Facilitating Scientific Research: Intellectual Property Rights and the Norms of Science - A Response to Rai and Eisenberg, Scott F. Kieff (October 9, 2000)