Journal of Legal Studies  

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Volume 16(1)

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Inducement of Breach of Contract as a Problem of Ostensible Ownership

R.A. Epstein

1

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Variety and Uniformity in the Treatment of the Good-Faith Purchaser

S. Levmore

43

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A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control

R.C. Ellickson

67

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Rent Extraction and Rent Creation in the Economic Theory of Regulation

R.S. McChesney

101

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Breach of Contract in the Soviet Economy

H. Kroll

119

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The Coase Theorem and California Animal Trespass Law

K.R. Vogel

149

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Some Agency Problems in Settlement

G.P. Miller

189

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Fear and Loathing in the Coase Theorem: Experimental Tests Involving Physical Discomfort

D.L. Coursey, E. Hoffman and M.L. Spitzer

217

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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

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Volume 16(2)

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Marriage, Divorce and Quasi Rents; or, ÑI Gave Him the Best Years of My Lifeæ

L. Cohen

267

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Liability Rules and Accident Prevention in the Workplace: Empirical Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century

P.V. Fishback

305

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A Market in Personal Injury Tort Claims

M.J. Shukaitis

329

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Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities

H. Saffer and M. Grossman

351

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The Efficiency of Comparative Negligence

D.L. Rubinfeld

375

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Loss of Innocence: Eyewitness Identification and Proof of Guilt

S.R. Gross

395

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Hadley v. Baxendale and the Expansion of the Middleman Economy

J.T. Landa

455

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Two Definitions of Efficiency in Law and Economics

S.E. Margolis

471

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The Divergence between Social and Private Incentives to Sue: A Comment on Shavell, Menell and Kaplow

S. Rose-Ackerman and M. Geistfeld

483

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Volume 17(1)

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Does Altruism Produce Efficient Outcomes? Marshall versus Kaldor

D. D. Friedman

1-13

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Common Law Control of Strategic Behavior: Railroad Sparks and the Farmer

M. F. Grady

15-42

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Criminal Justice Discretion as a Regulatory System

S. J. Schulhofer

43-82

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Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange

G. M. Anderson, C. K. Rowley and R. D. Tollison

83-100

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Product Liability Litigation with Risk Aversion

W. K. Viscusi

101-21

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Legal Advice about Contemplated Acts: The Decision to Obtain Advice, Its Social Desirability and Protection of Confidentiality

S. Shavell

123-50

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The Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation for the Level of Liability

A. M. Polinsky and D. L. Rubinfeld

151-64

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The Fairness of Tender Offer Prices in Utilitarian Theory

A. Schwartz

165-96

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The Sole Owner Standard for Takeover Policy

L. A. Bebchuk

197-229

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The Sole Owner Standard Reviewed

A. Schwartz

231-35

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Volume 17(2)

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A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions

S. Schwab

237-68

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Takings, Insurance and Michelman: Comments on Economic Interpretations of "Just Compensation" Law

W. A. Fischel and P. Shapiro

269-93

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Accountable Accountants: Is Third-Party Liability Necessary?

V. P. Goldberg

295-312

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Dispute Resolution, Bargaining and the Selection of Cases for Trial: A Study of the Generation of Biased and Unbiased Data

D. Wittman

313-52

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Contract Breach and Contract Discharge Due to Impossibility: A Unified Theory

M. J. White

353-76

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Measuring the Cost of Corporate Litigation: Five Case Studies

K. Engelmann and B. Cornell

377-99

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Precontractual Investigation as an Optimal Precaution Problem

R. Craswell

401-36

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Suing Solely to Extract a Settlement Offer

L. A. Bebchuk

437-50

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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

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Volume 18(1)

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The Efficient Breach Fallacy

D. Friedmann

1-24

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Dikes, Dams and Vicious Hogs: Entitlement and Efficiency in Tort w

S. Rose Ackerman

25-50

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Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims and Legal Convergence

J. M. Ramseyer

51-77

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The Statistical Basis of Athenian-American Constitutional Theory

D. M. Levy

79-103

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Beyond Foreseeability: Consequential Damages in the Law of Contract

R. A. Epstein

105-38

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Indemnity, Settlement and Litigation, or I'll Be Suing You

J. C. Hause

157-79

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The Assignment of Rights, Entry Effects and the Allocation of Resources

C. G. Holderness

181-89

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Trials and Settlements in the Criminal Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Dispositions and Sentencing

H. W. Elder

191-208

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Volume 18(2)

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A Theory of Loan Priorities

A. Schwartz

209-61

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The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan

J. M. Ramseyer and M. Nakazato

263-90

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The Economic Nature of Wildlife Law

D. Lueck

291-324

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An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law

W. M. Landes and R. A. Posner

325-63

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Performance, Reliance and One-Sided Information

R. Craswell

365-401

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Why Comply: One-Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws

J. R. Lott, Jr. and R. D. Roberts

403-14

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Punitive Damages and the Rule of Law: The Role of Defendant's Wealth

K. S. Abraham and J. C. Jeffries, Jr.

415-25

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Causation and Incentives to Take Care under the Negligence Rule

M. Kahan

427-47

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Volume 19(1)

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Why Do Universities Have Endowments?

H. Hansmann

3-42

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The Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in a Second-Best World

A. O. Sykes

43-94

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Liability Salvage--By Private Ordering

W. T. Brough

95-111

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Why Tender Offers? The Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Supply of Stock and Signaling

L. R. Cohen

113-43

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Empirical Evidence on the Selection Hypothesis and the Decision to Litigate or Settle

L. R. Stanley and D. L. Coursey

145-72

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The Incentive to Sue: An Option-Pricing Approach

B. Cornell

173-87

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Second Thoughts on the Public-Good Justification for Government Poverty Programs

D. R. Lee and R. B. McKenzie

189-202

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An Experimental Study of Single-Actor Accidents

L. Kornhauser and A. Schotter

203-33

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Indemnity, Settlement and Litigation: Comment and Extension

P. L. Hersch

235-41

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A Transaction-Costs Explanation for Why the Poor Are More Likely to Commit Crime

J. R. Lott, Jr.

243-45

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The Courts and the Market: An Economic Analysis of Contingent Fees in Class-Action Litigation

W. J. Lynk

247-60

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Volume 19(2-1)

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Energy and Efficiency in the Realignment of Common-Law Water Rights

C. M. Rose

261-96

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Government as Definer of Property Rights: Indian Lands, Ethnic Externalities and Bureaucratic Budgets

F. S. McChesney

297-335

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Testing the Selection Effect: A New Theoretical Framework with Empirical Tests

T. Eisenberg

337-58

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A Positive Theory of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine

R. J. Allen and et al.

359-97

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Insecurity, Repudiation and Cure

R. Craswell

399-434

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Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts

S. Shavell

435-66

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Contract Law, Mutual Mistake and Incentives to Produce and Disclose Information

J. K. Smith and R. L. Smith

467-88

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A Theory of Administrative Law

W. Bishop

489-530

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Volume 19(2-2)

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Introduction: The Law and Economics of Risk

R. A. Epstein and G. R. Miller

531-33

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Commercial Relationships and the Selection of Default Rules for Remote Risks

C. P. Gillette

535-81

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Self-interest and Cooperation in Long-term Contracts

D. G. Baird

583-96

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A Relational Theory of Default Rules for Commercial Contracts

R. E. Scott

597-616

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Apportioning Damages among Potentially Insolvent Actors

L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz

617-51

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Multiple Tortfeasors and the Economy of Prevention

M. F. Grady

653-78

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Insolvency and Joint Torts: A Comment

W. M. Landes

679-89

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Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution and Recurring Wrongs

S. Levmore

691-726

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Recurring Misses

D. A. Farber

727-37

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Market-Share Allocations in Tort Law: Strengths and Weaknesses

S. Rose Ackerman

739-46

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Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation

R. G. Noll and J. E. Krier

747-79

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Risk and Design

J. E. Krier

781-90

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Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment

C. F. Camerer

791-99

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Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment

M. L. Spitzer

801-08

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The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes

W. K. Viscusi

809-36

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Products Liability Law and Insurance Profitability

K. S. Abraham

837-44

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The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes: Comment

M. Trebilcock

845-49

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Volume 20(1)

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Fraudulent Conveyances, Agency Costs and Leveraged Buyouts

D. G. Baird

1-24

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Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies and Tenure Choice

H. Hansmann

25-71

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Rent Extraction and Interest-Group Organization in a Coasean Model of Regulation

F. S. McChesney

73-90

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Legal Rules in Repeated Deals: Banking in the Shadow of Defection in Japan

J. M. Ramseyer

91-117

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The Superiority of Comparative Negligence: Another Vote

D. Orr

119-29

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Congressional Influence and the Supreme Court: The Budget as a Signaling Device

E. F. Toma

131-46

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The Dimensions of the Product Liability Crisis

W. K. Viscusi

147-77

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Impossibility, Subjective Probability and Punishment for Attempts

D. D. Friedman

179-86

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Are Attorneys Paid What They're Worth? Contingent Fees and the Settlement Process

T. Thomason

187-223

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Volume 20(2)

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Legal Policy and the Endowment Effect

H. Hovenkamp

225-47

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Recovery for Pure Economic Loss in Tort: Another Look at Robins Dry Dock v. Flint

V. P. Goldberg

249-75

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Risk Taking and Ruin: Bankruptcy and Investment Choice

S. Rose Ackerman

277-310

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A Simple Noncooperative Bargaining Model of Corporate Reorganizations

D. G. Baird and R. C. Picker

311-49

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Holdouts and Free Riders

L. Cohen

351-62

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Sequential Decisions by a Single Tortfeasor

L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz

363-80

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Contingent Fees for Lawyers: The Impact on Litigation and Accident Prevention

T. J. Miceli and K. Segerson

381-99

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An Economic Analysis of Altruism and Deferred Gifts

S. Shavell

401-21

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The Economics of Woman Suffrage

E. B. Jones

423-37

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Real Rates, Expected Rates and Damage Awards

R. A. L. Carter and J. P. Palmer

439-62

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The Distribution of Posttrial Adjustments to Jury Awards

M. G. Shanley

463-81