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)

Further Reflections on the Guillotine, Ronald Jay Allen and Amy Shavell (April 20, 2005)

Counting Guns in Early America, James T. Lindgren and Justin Lee Heather (March 30, 2005)

Are Babies Efficient?, Marshall S. Shapo (February 22, 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)

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)

Against Global Governance in the WTO, John McGinnis and Movsesian L. Movsesian (May 17, 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)

Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others, Bruce L. Hay and Kathryn E. Spier (August 19, 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)

An Agency Costs Theory of Trust Law, Robert H. Sitkoff (June 4, 2003)

Papers from 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

Counting Guns in Early America, James T. Lindgren and Justin Lee Heather (June 2, 2001)

Papers from 2000