Northwestern Law Legal Working Paper Series
Public Law and Legal Theory Papers
Papers from 2006
Electoral College Reform Is Heating Up, And Posing Some Tough Choices, Robert Bennett (February 27, 2006)
Taming the Electoral College, Robert Bennett (February 15, 2006)
Papers from 2005
Reflections on the Law and Economics of Copyright Scope and its Implications for Fair Use, Matthew J. Sag (November 1, 2005)
Perpetuities or Tax: Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust, Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff (October 31, 2005)
Strategic Judging Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence, Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson Tiller (May 23, 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)
Tax Treaties For Investment And Aid To Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study, Allison Christians (April 19, 2005)
Flouting the Law, Janice Nadler (April 12, 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)
Using the Veil of Ignorance to Ensure Distributive Justice in Class Actions: A Rawlsian Approach to 'Adequacy of Representation' after Stephenson, David A. Dana (February 17, 2005)
Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm?, Andrew Koppelman (February 11, 2005)
Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages and Civil Unions: A Handbook for Judges, Andrew Koppelman (February 11, 2005)
Papers from 2004
The Distinctiveness of Trial Narrative, Robert P. Burns (September 23, 2004)
Federalism vs. States' Rights: A Defense of Judicial Review in a Federal System, John McGinnis and Ilya Somin (August 18, 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)
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)
Trait Discrimination as Sex Discrimination: An Argument Against Neutrality, Kim Yuracko (May 10, 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)
Development Policy in the New Millennium and the Doha 'Development Round', Kenneth W. Abbott (August 22, 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)
Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters, Robert H. Sitkoff (June 8, 2003)
Regulatory Mismatch in the International Market for Legal Services, Carole Silver (May 23, 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)
The Mead Doctrine: Of Rules And Standards, Meta-Rules And Meta-Standards, Thomas W. Merrill (March 20, 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)
Examining the American Bar Association's Ratings of Nominees to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for Political Bias, 1989-2000, James T. Lindgren (November 14, 2001)
The Case of the Foreign Lawyer: Internationalizing the U.S. Legal Profession, Carole Silver (October 24, 2001)
Encountering Amateurism: John Henry Wigmore and the Uses of American Formalism, Annelise Riles (January 5, 2001)
Papers from 2000
The Virtual Sociality of Rights: The Case of "Women's Rights are Human Rights", Annelise Riles (October 17, 2000)
Should Parents Be Given Extra Votes on Account of Their Children?: Toward a Conversational Understanding of American Democracy, Robert Bennett (January 13, 2000)