Journal of Legal Studies
Journal of Legal Studies
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Volume 16(1)
Inducement of Breach of Contract as a Problem of Ostensible Ownership
R.A. Epstein
1
Variety and Uniformity in the Treatment of the Good-Faith Purchaser
S. Levmore
43
A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control
R.C. Ellickson
67
Rent Extraction and Rent Creation in the Economic Theory of Regulation
R.S. McChesney
101
Breach of Contract in the Soviet Economy
H. Kroll
119
The Coase Theorem and California Animal Trespass Law
K.R. Vogel
149
Some Agency Problems in Settlement
G.P. Miller
189
Fear and Loathing in the Coase Theorem: Experimental Tests Involving Physical Discomfort
D.L. Coursey, E. Hoffman and M.L. Spitzer
217
Raising the Alcohol Purchase Age: Its Effects on Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes in Twenty-six States
W. DuMouchel, A.F. Williams and P. Zador
249
Volume 16(2)
Marriage, Divorce and Quasi Rents; or, ÑI Gave Him the Best Years of My Lifeæ
L. Cohen
267
Liability Rules and Accident Prevention in the Workplace: Empirical Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century
P.V. Fishback
305
A Market in Personal Injury Tort Claims
M.J. Shukaitis
329
Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities
H. Saffer and M. Grossman
351
The Efficiency of Comparative Negligence
D.L. Rubinfeld
375
Loss of Innocence: Eyewitness Identification and Proof of Guilt
S.R. Gross
395
Hadley v. Baxendale and the Expansion of the Middleman Economy
J.T. Landa
455
Two Definitions of Efficiency in Law and Economics
S.E. Margolis
471
The Divergence between Social and Private Incentives to Sue: A Comment on Shavell, Menell and Kaplow
S. Rose-Ackerman and M. Geistfeld
483
Volume 17(1)
Does Altruism Produce Efficient Outcomes? Marshall versus Kaldor
D. D. Friedman
1-13
Common Law Control of Strategic Behavior: Railroad Sparks and the Farmer
M. F. Grady
15-42
Criminal Justice Discretion as a Regulatory System
S. J. Schulhofer
43-82
Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange
G. M. Anderson, C. K. Rowley and R. D. Tollison
83-100
Product Liability Litigation with Risk Aversion
W. K. Viscusi
101-21
Legal Advice about Contemplated Acts: The Decision to Obtain Advice, Its Social Desirability and Protection of Confidentiality
S. Shavell
123-50
The Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation for the Level of Liability
A. M. Polinsky and D. L. Rubinfeld
151-64
The Fairness of Tender Offer Prices in Utilitarian Theory
A. Schwartz
165-96
The Sole Owner Standard for Takeover Policy
L. A. Bebchuk
197-229
The Sole Owner Standard Reviewed
A. Schwartz
231-35
Volume 17(2)
A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions
S. Schwab
237-68
Takings, Insurance and Michelman: Comments on Economic Interpretations of "Just Compensation" Law
W. A. Fischel and P. Shapiro
269-93
Accountable Accountants: Is Third-Party Liability Necessary?
V. P. Goldberg
295-312
Dispute Resolution, Bargaining and the Selection of Cases for Trial: A Study of the Generation of Biased and Unbiased Data
D. Wittman
313-52
Contract Breach and Contract Discharge Due to Impossibility: A Unified Theory
M. J. White
353-76
Measuring the Cost of Corporate Litigation: Five Case Studies
K. Engelmann and B. Cornell
377-99
Precontractual Investigation as an Optimal Precaution Problem
R. Craswell
401-36
Suing Solely to Extract a Settlement Offer
L. A. Bebchuk
437-50
A Systematic Approach to Comparative Law: The Effect of Cost, Fee and Financing Rules on the Development of the Substantive Law
J. R. S. Prichard
451-75
Volume 18(1)
The Efficient Breach Fallacy
D. Friedmann
1-24
Dikes, Dams and Vicious Hogs: Entitlement and Efficiency in Tort w
S. Rose Ackerman
25-50
Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims and Legal Convergence
J. M. Ramseyer
51-77
The Statistical Basis of Athenian-American Constitutional Theory
D. M. Levy
79-103
Beyond Foreseeability: Consequential Damages in the Law of Contract
R. A. Epstein
105-38
Indemnity, Settlement and Litigation, or I'll Be Suing You
J. C. Hause
157-79
The Assignment of Rights, Entry Effects and the Allocation of Resources
C. G. Holderness
181-89
Trials and Settlements in the Criminal Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Dispositions and Sentencing
H. W. Elder
191-208
Volume 18(2)
A Theory of Loan Priorities
A. Schwartz
209-61
The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan
J. M. Ramseyer and M. Nakazato
263-90
The Economic Nature of Wildlife Law
D. Lueck
291-324
An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law
W. M. Landes and R. A. Posner
325-63
Performance, Reliance and One-Sided Information
R. Craswell
365-401
Why Comply: One-Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws
J. R. Lott, Jr. and R. D. Roberts
403-14
Punitive Damages and the Rule of Law: The Role of Defendant's Wealth
K. S. Abraham and J. C. Jeffries, Jr.
415-25
Causation and Incentives to Take Care under the Negligence Rule
M. Kahan
427-47
Volume 19(1)
Why Do Universities Have Endowments?
H. Hansmann
3-42
The Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in a Second-Best World
A. O. Sykes
43-94
Liability Salvage--By Private Ordering
W. T. Brough
95-111
Why Tender Offers? The Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Supply of Stock and Signaling
L. R. Cohen
113-43
Empirical Evidence on the Selection Hypothesis and the Decision to Litigate or Settle
L. R. Stanley and D. L. Coursey
145-72
The Incentive to Sue: An Option-Pricing Approach
B. Cornell
173-87
Second Thoughts on the Public-Good Justification for Government Poverty Programs
D. R. Lee and R. B. McKenzie
189-202
An Experimental Study of Single-Actor Accidents
L. Kornhauser and A. Schotter
203-33
Indemnity, Settlement and Litigation: Comment and Extension
P. L. Hersch
235-41
A Transaction-Costs Explanation for Why the Poor Are More Likely to Commit Crime
J. R. Lott, Jr.
243-45
The Courts and the Market: An Economic Analysis of Contingent Fees in Class-Action Litigation
W. J. Lynk
247-60
Volume 19(2-1)
Energy and Efficiency in the Realignment of Common-Law Water Rights
C. M. Rose
261-96
Government as Definer of Property Rights: Indian Lands, Ethnic Externalities and Bureaucratic Budgets
F. S. McChesney
297-335
Testing the Selection Effect: A New Theoretical Framework with Empirical Tests
T. Eisenberg
337-58
A Positive Theory of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine
R. J. Allen and et al.
359-97
Insecurity, Repudiation and Cure
R. Craswell
399-434
Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts
S. Shavell
435-66
Contract Law, Mutual Mistake and Incentives to Produce and Disclose Information
J. K. Smith and R. L. Smith
467-88
A Theory of Administrative Law
W. Bishop
489-530
Volume 19(2-2)
Introduction: The Law and Economics of Risk
R. A. Epstein and G. R. Miller
531-33
Commercial Relationships and the Selection of Default Rules for Remote Risks
C. P. Gillette
535-81
Self-interest and Cooperation in Long-term Contracts
D. G. Baird
583-96
A Relational Theory of Default Rules for Commercial Contracts
R. E. Scott
597-616
Apportioning Damages among Potentially Insolvent Actors
L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz
617-51
Multiple Tortfeasors and the Economy of Prevention
M. F. Grady
653-78
Insolvency and Joint Torts: A Comment
W. M. Landes
679-89
Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution and Recurring Wrongs
S. Levmore
691-726
Recurring Misses
D. A. Farber
727-37
Market-Share Allocations in Tort Law: Strengths and Weaknesses
S. Rose Ackerman
739-46
Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation
R. G. Noll and J. E. Krier
747-79
Risk and Design
J. E. Krier
781-90
Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment
C. F. Camerer
791-99
Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment
M. L. Spitzer
801-08
The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes
W. K. Viscusi
809-36
Products Liability Law and Insurance Profitability
K. S. Abraham
837-44
The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes: Comment
M. Trebilcock
845-49
Volume 20(1)
Fraudulent Conveyances, Agency Costs and Leveraged Buyouts
D. G. Baird
1-24
Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies and Tenure Choice
H. Hansmann
25-71
Rent Extraction and Interest-Group Organization in a Coasean Model of Regulation
F. S. McChesney
73-90
Legal Rules in Repeated Deals: Banking in the Shadow of Defection in Japan
J. M. Ramseyer
91-117
The Superiority of Comparative Negligence: Another Vote
D. Orr
119-29
Congressional Influence and the Supreme Court: The Budget as a Signaling Device
E. F. Toma
131-46
The Dimensions of the Product Liability Crisis
W. K. Viscusi
147-77
Impossibility, Subjective Probability and Punishment for Attempts
D. D. Friedman
179-86
Are Attorneys Paid What They're Worth? Contingent Fees and the Settlement Process
T. Thomason
187-223
Volume 20(2)
Legal Policy and the Endowment Effect
H. Hovenkamp
225-47
Recovery for Pure Economic Loss in Tort: Another Look at Robins Dry Dock v. Flint
V. P. Goldberg
249-75
Risk Taking and Ruin: Bankruptcy and Investment Choice
S. Rose Ackerman
277-310
A Simple Noncooperative Bargaining Model of Corporate Reorganizations
D. G. Baird and R. C. Picker
311-49
Holdouts and Free Riders
L. Cohen
351-62
Sequential Decisions by a Single Tortfeasor
L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz
363-80
Contingent Fees for Lawyers: The Impact on Litigation and Accident Prevention
T. J. Miceli and K. Segerson
381-99
An Economic Analysis of Altruism and Deferred Gifts
S. Shavell
401-21
The Economics of Woman Suffrage
E. B. Jones
423-37
Real Rates, Expected Rates and Damage Awards
R. A. L. Carter and J. P. Palmer
439-62
The Distribution of Posttrial Adjustments to Jury Awards
M. G. Shanley
463-81