Northwestern Law Legal Working Paper Series

Public Law and Legal Theory Papers

Papers from 2006

Taming the Electoral College, Robert Bennett (February 15, 2006)

Papers from 2005

Perpetuities or Tax: Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust, Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff (October 31, 2005)

Judicial Citation to Legislative History: Contextual Theory and Empirical Analysis, Michael B. Abramowicz and Emerson H. Tiller (May 23, 2005)

What is Legal Doctrine, Emerson Tiller and Frank B. Cross (May 16, 2005)

Flouting the Law, Janice Nadler (April 12, 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)

Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm?, Andrew Koppelman (February 11, 2005)

Papers from 2004

The Distinctiveness of Trial Narrative, Robert P. Burns (September 23, 2004)

Supermajority Rules and the Judicial Confirmation Process, John McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport (August 4, 2004)

The Unitary Executive During the Third Half-Century, 1889-1945, Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi, and Laurence Nee (June 29, 2004)

The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2001, Christopher S. Yoo and Steven G. Calabresi (June 23, 2004)

Against Global Governance in the WTO, John McGinnis and Movsesian L. Movsesian (May 17, 2004)

Lawrence v. Texas and Judicial Hubris, Nelson Robert Lund and John O. McGinnis (April 22, 2004)

Burdens of Persuasion in Civil Cases: Algorithms v. Explanations, Ronald Jay Allen and Sarah Lively (January 8, 2004)

Papers from 2003

The Self-Incrimination Clause Explained and Its Future Predicted, Ronald Jay Allen and M. Kristin Mace (December 26, 2003)

Existence Value and Federal Preservation Regulation, David A. Dana (December 23, 2003)

Why Be Fair When You Can Have Welfare?, Anthony D'Amato (August 28, 2003)

The Juridical Management of Factual Uncertainty, Ronald Jay Allen and Craig R. Callen (August 26, 2003)

Untangling the Myth of the Model Minority, Miranda H. McGowan and James T. Lindgren (June 27, 2003)

Symmetric Entrenchment: A Constitutional and Normative Theory, Michael B. Rappaport and John McGinnis (June 19, 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)

Some Ethical Issues Surrounding Mediation, Robert P. Burns (June 8, 2002)

Legal Phenomena, Knowledge, and Theory: A Cautionary Tale of Hedgehogs and Foxes, Ronald Jay Allen and Ross M. Rosenberg (March 6, 2002)

Papers from 2001

Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence, Ronald Jay Allen and Brian R. Leiter (December 11, 2001)

Papers from 2000