University of Illinois Legal Working Paper Series
University of Illinois Law and Economics Working Papers
Papers from 2008
The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg (November 11, 2008)
Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors, Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter, John Pottow, Deborah Thorne, Angela K. Littwin, and Elizabeth Warren (November 7, 2008)
Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN, Andres A. Gallo and Jay P. Kesan (August 28, 2008)
Happiness and Punishment, Jonathan S. Masur, Christopher Buccafusco, and John Bronsteen (August 20, 2008)
Borders & The Environment, Andrew P. Morriss (August 15, 2008)
Spiritualism and Will(s) in the Age of Contract, Christopher Buccafusco (August 1, 2008)
A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits, Richard L. Kaplan (August 1, 2008)
Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients, Jennifer Robbennolt (July 17, 2008)
Judicial Independence and Party Politics in the Kelsenian Constitutional Courts: The Case of Portugal, Sofia AmaralGarcia, Nuno Garoupa, and Veronica Grembi (July 7, 2008)
Lost in Translation: Interoperability Issues for Open Standards -- ODF and OOXML as Examples, Rajiv Shah and Jay P. Kesan (July 1, 2008)
Uncorporating the Large Firm, Larry E. Ribstein (May 28, 2008)
A Single-License Approach to Regulating Insurance, Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein (May 23, 2008)
The Uncorporation and Corporate Indeterminacy, Larry E. Ribstein (April 1, 2008)
Top Ten Myths of Social Security, Richard L. Kaplan (March 25, 2008)
Privacy, Ethics, and the Meaning of News, Amy Gajda (March 5, 2008)
Rules and Institutions in Developing a Law Market: Views from the U.S. and Europe, Erin O'Hara and Larry E. Ribstein (February 27, 2008)
Henry Manne: Intellectual Entrepreneur, Larry E. Ribstein (February 18, 2008)
ARE PARTNERS AGENTS?, Larry E. Ribstein (January 18, 2008)
Papers from 2007
Bootleggers, Baptists & Televangelists: Regulating Tobacco by Litigation, Bruce Yandle, Joseph A. Rotondi, Andrew P. Morriss, and Andrew Dorchak (August 1, 2007)
The Rise of the Uncorporation, Larry E. Ribstein (July 29, 2007)
A Different Ethical Issue In Anatomy of a Murder: Friendly Fire from the Cowboy/Hero, Nina W. Tarr (June 22, 2007)
Why Limit Charity?, Miranda Perry Fleischer (June 13, 2007)
Retirement Planning's Greatest Gap: Funding Long-Term Care , Richard L. Kaplan (June 12, 2007)
Gasoline, Markets, and Regulators, Andrew P. Morriss (June 1, 2007)
Bias Arbitrage, Amitai Aviram (May 1, 2007)
Counter-Cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law, Amitai Aviram (April 27, 2007)
Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN, Jay P. Kesan and Andres A. Gallo (April 27, 2007)
Odious Debt, Odious Credit, Economic Development, and Democratization, Tom Ginsburg and Thomas S. Ulen (April 1, 2007)
Classical Rhetoric, Explanatory Synthesis, and the TREAT Paradigm, Michael D. Murray (March 15, 2007)
Getting the Haves to Come Out Behind: Fixing the Distributive Injustices of American Health Care, David A. Hyman (March 1, 2007)
Do Norms Still Matter? The Corrosive Effects of Globalization on the Vitality of Norms, Patrick J. Keenan (February 27, 2007)
The Undercivilization of Corporate Law, Christine Hurt (February 25, 2007)
Constitutional Possibilities, Lawrence B. Solum (February 23, 2007)
Papers from 2006
Consumer Bankruptcy Filings: Trends and Indicators, Charles J. Tabb (October 1, 2006)
The Evolving Partnership, Larry E. Ribstein (October 1, 2006)
Why Gasoline Costs So Much (And Why It's Going to Cost More), Andrew P. Morriss and Nathaniel Stewart (September 1, 2006)
Property Rights Legislation in Agricultural Biotechnology: United States and Argentina, Andres A. Gallo and Jay P. Kesan (September 1, 2006)
Setting Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics, Jay P. Kesan and Rajiv C. Shah (August 1, 2006)
Means-Testing Medicare: Retiree Pain for Little Governmental Gain, Richard L. Kaplan (August 1, 2006)
Dabit, Preemption and Choice of Law, Larry E. Ribstein (July 1, 2006)
Perils of Criminalizing Agency Costs, Larry E. Ribstein (July 1, 2006)
Exclusion's Attraction: Land Use Controls in Tieboutian Perspective, Lee Anne Fennell (May 1, 2006)
Properties of Concentration, Lee Anne Fennell (May 1, 2006)
The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa , and Richard H. McAdams (April 26, 2006)
The Public Face of Scholarship, Larry E. Ribstein (April 17, 2006)
The Paradox of Consumer Credit, Robert M. Lawless (April 1, 2006)
Flying without a Statutory Basis: Why McDonnell-Douglas Is Not Justified by Any Statutory Construction Methodology, Sandra F. Sperino (March 27, 2006)
Outsider Trading as an Incentive Device, Larry E. Ribstein and Bruce H. Kobayashi (March 1, 2006)
Locking in Democracy: Constitutions, Commitment and International Law, Tom Ginsburg (March 1, 2006)
Should History Lock in Lock-In?, Larry E. Ribstein (February 13, 2006)
How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes , Jay P. Kesan and Gwendolyn G. Ball (February 1, 2006)
Directors' Duties in Failing Firms, Larry E. Ribstein and Kelli A. Alces (January 31, 2006)
The Economics of Federalism, Larry E. Ribstein and Bruce H. Kobayashi (January 11, 2006)
Federal Tax Policy and Family-Provided Care for Older Adults, Richard L. Kaplan (January 1, 2006)
Papers from 2005
The Medicare Drug Benefit: A Prescription for Confusion, Richard L. Kaplan (December 1, 2005)
Rescue without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue, David A. Hyman (November 10, 2005)
Courting Controversy, Charles J. Tabb (November 1, 2005)
The Brave New World of Bankruptcy Preferences, Charles J. Tabb (November 1, 2005)
Consumer Bankruptcy after the Fall: United States Law under S.256, Charles J. Tabb (November 1, 2005)
Top Twenty Issues in the History of Consumer Bankruptcy, Charles J. Tabb (November 1, 2005)
Who's Afraid of Personal Responsibility? Health Savings Accounts and the Future of American Health Care, Richard L. Kaplan (October 1, 2005)
Fraud on a Noisy Market, Larry E. Ribstein (September 16, 2005)
Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood's View of Business, Larry E. Ribstein (September 1, 2005)
Accountability and Responsibility in Corporate Governance, Larry E. Ribstein (September 1, 2005)
A Tempting State: The Political Economy of Entrapment, Richard H. McAdams (September 1, 2005)
Foreign Corporations Listing in the U.S. -- Does Law Matter? Testing the Israeli Phenomenon, Ariel Yehezkel (September 1, 2005)
The Placebo Effect of Law, Amitai Aviram (August 1, 2005)
Lessons from the Globalization of Consumer Bankruptcy, Charles J. Tabb (June 1, 2005)
Sarbanes-Oxley After Three Years, Larry E. Ribstein (June 1, 2005)
Imagining Wall Street, Larry E. Ribstein (June 1, 2005)
The Important Role of Non-Organization Law, Larry E. Ribstein (May 17, 2005)
The New Deterrence: Crime and Policy in the Age of Globalization, Patrick J. Keenan (April 4, 2005)
Initial Reflections on the Law and Economics of Blogging, Larry E. Ribstein (April 4, 2005)
The Security of Social Security Benefits and the President's Proposal, Richard L. Kaplan (April 1, 2005)
International Judicial Lawmaking, Tom Ginsburg (April 1, 2005)
Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald's and Less Like the United Nations, Stephen F. Ross and Stefan Szymanski (March 1, 2005)
The Market for Private Dispute Resolution Services -- An Empirical Re-Assessment of ICANN-UDRP Performance, Jay P. Kesan and Andres A. Gallo (March 1, 2005)
Conformity to Inegalitarian Conventions and Norms: The Contribution of Coordination and Esteem, Richard H. McAdams (March 1, 2005)
Why Corporations?, Larry E. Ribstein (March 1, 2005)
Taking Eminent Domain Apart, Lee Anne Fennell (February 18, 2005)
Papers from 2004
Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law After Inspire Art: Unbundling Delaware's Product for Europe, Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, and Wulf Kaal (November 1, 2004)
The Nanny State Meets the Inner Lawyer: Overregulating while Underprotecting Human Participants in Research, C. K. Gunsalus (November 1, 2004)
Locked In Segregation, Daria Roithmayr (October 1, 2004)
Are Partners Fiduciaries?, Larry E. Ribstein (September 28, 2004)
A Standard Form Approach to Same Sex Marriage, Larry E. Ribstein (September 27, 2004)
The Unreluctant Litigant? An Empirical Analysis of Japan's Turn to Litigation, Tom Ginsburg and Glenn Hoetker (September 8, 2004)
Expressive Adjudication, Richard H. McAdams (September 1, 2004)
The Economic Case for Cyberinsurance, Jay P. Kesan, Rupterto P. Majuca, and William J. Yurcik (July 1, 2004)
Mother of All Conflicts: Auditors and Their Clients, Richard Kaplan (June 14, 2004)
Convergence and Competition in Rules Governing Lawyers and Auditors, Richard W. Painter (June 7, 2004)
The Market for Elite Law Firm Associates, Tom Ginsburg and Jeffrey A. Wolf (June 1, 2004)
Cracking the Conundrum: Toward a Rational Financing of Long-Term Care, Richard L. Kaplan (May 1, 2004)
Enron, Pension Policy, and Social Security Privitization, Richard L. Kaplan (March 1, 2004)
Economic Inequality and the Role of Law, Richard L. Kaplan (February 7, 2004)
Book Review: Democracy, Markets and Doomsaying: Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?, Tom Ginsburg (February 1, 2004)