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Journal of Legal Studies  


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Volume 21(1)


The Path to The T. J. Hooper: The Theory and History of Custom in the Law of Tort

R. A. Epstein

1-38


Reconsidering Gratuitous Promises

A. Kull

39-65


When Is Parody Fair Use?

R. A. Posner

67-78


Copyright Protection of Letters, Diaries and Other Unpublished Works: An Economic Approach

W. M. Landes

79-113


Opting Out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry

L. Bernstein

115-57


An Attempt at Measuring the Total Monetary Penalty from Drug Convictions: The Importance of an Individual's Reputation

J. R. Lott, Jr.

159-87


Adverse Selection and Long-Term Hazards: The Choice between Contract and Mandatory Liability Rules

S. N. Wiggins and A. H. Ringleb

189-215


Rent Extraction through Political Extortion: An Empirical Examination

R. Beck, C. Hoskins and J. M. Connolly

217-24


Secured Debt under Conditions of Imperfect Information

G. G. Triantis

225-58


 


Volume 21(2)


Liability and the Incentive to Obtain Information about Risk

S. Shavell

259-70


Relational Contracts in the Courts: An Analysis of Incomplete Agreements and Judicial Strategies

A. Schwartz

271-318


Rule-Based Negligence and the Regulation of Activity Levels

S. G. Gilles

319-63


Optimal Sanctions When Individuals Are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension

L. A. Bebchuk and L. Kaplow

365-70


Some Implications of Damage Payments for Nonpecuniary Losses

J. E. Calfee and P. H. Rubin

371-411


Should Defendants' Wealth Matter?

J. H. Arlen

413-29


Debtholders and Equityholders

H. Kanda

431-48


Of Harms and Benefits: Torts, Restitution and Intellectual Property

W. J. Gordon

449-82


 


Volume 22(1)


Suit versus Settlement when Parties Seek Nonmonetary Judgments

S. Shavell

1-13


Contracts of Genesis

G. P. Miller

15-45


The Lessons of the Lighthouse: "Government" or "Private" Provision of Goods

D. E. Van Zandt

47-72


An Equity-Agency Solution to the Bankruptcy-Priority Puzzle

B. E. Adler

73-98


Sequential versus Unitary Trials: An Economic Analysis

W. M. Landes

99-134


Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pretrial Bargaining

G. Loewenstein and et al.

135-59


Alcohol-Control Policies and Motor-Vehicle Fatalities

F. J. Chaloupka, H. Saffer and M. Grossman

161-86


Asymmetric Information and the Selection of Disputes for Litigation

K. N. Hylton

187-210


 


Volume 22(2)


Gary Becker's Contributions to Law and Economics

R. A. Posner

211-15


Endogenous Preferences, Environmental Law

C. R. Sunstein

217-54


Precommitment, Prohibition and the Problem of Dissent

D. A. Dripps

255-63


The Case for Retroactive Taxation

S. Levmore

265-307


Mutual and Unilateral Mistake in Contract Law

E. Rasmusen and I. Ayres

309-43


Hanged for a Sheep--The Economics of Marginal Deterrence

D. Friedman and W. Sjostrom

345-66


A Case-Study Analysis of Franchise Contracts

A. W. Dnes

367-93


Efficiency of Comparative Negligence: A Game Theoretic Analysis

T. Y. Chung

395-404


The Superior Performance of Savings and Loan Associations with Substantial Holding Companies

H. E. Jackson

405-56


Litigation Cost Allocation Rules and Compliance with the Negligence Standard

K. N. Hylton

457-76


Ritual and Regulation: A Legal-Economic Interpretation of Selected Biblical Texts

G. P. Miller

477-501


Inefficient Dissolutions as a Consequence of Public Goods: The Case of No-Fault Divorce

M. Zelder

503-20


 


Volume 23(1-1)


Recovery for Economic Loss following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

V. P. Goldberg

1-39


Multidefendant Settlements: The Impact of Joint and Several Liability

L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz

41-76


"Bad Faith" Refusal to Settle by Liability Insurers: Some Implications of the Judgment-Proof Problem

A. O. Sykes

77-110


Should We Abolish Chapter 11? The Evidence from Japan

T. Eisenberg and S. Tagashira

111-57


Judicial Competence and the Interpretation of Incomplete Contracts

G. K. Hadfield

159-84


The Courts and the Plaintiffs' Bar: Awarding the Attorney's Fee in Class-Action Litigation

W. J. Lynk

185-209


Do Contingent Fees Promote Excessive Litigation?

T. J. Miceli

211-24


Improving Settlement Devices: Rule 68 and Beyond

D. A. Anderson

225-46


The Economic Underpinnings of Patent Law

K. W. Dam

247-71


Risk-Adjusted Valuation of Professional Degrees in Divorce

D. D. Polsby and M. Zelder

273-85


Discontinuities, Causation and Grady's Uncertainty Theorem

S. Marks

287-301


 


Volume 23(1-2)


Introduction: Economic Analysis of Civil Procedure

G. P. Miller

303-06


The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis

L. Kaplow

307-401


Neoactuarialism: Comment

D. R. Ortiz

403-09


Valuing Accuracy--Filling out the Framework: Comment

S. M. Bundy

411-33


An Economic Model of Legal Discovery

R. D. Cooter and D. L. Rubinfeld

435-63


Discovery Cost Allocation: Comment

E. H. Cooper

465-80


Civil Discovery: Its Effects and Optimal Scope

B. L. Hay

481-515


Multidefendant Settlements under Joint and Several Liability: The Problem of Insolvency

L. A. Kornhauser and R. L. Revesz

517-42


The Effect of Joint and Several Liability on the Settlement Rate--Mathematical Symmetries and Metaissues about Rational Litigant Behavior: Comment

J. J. Donohue, III

543-58


A Note on Joint and Several Liability: Insolvency, Settlement and Incentives

K. E. Spier

559-68


Avoiding Surprise from Federal Civil Rule Making: The Role of Economic Analysis

L. Walker

569-93


The Empirical Turn in Procedural Rule Making: Comment

R. G. Bone

595-613


Repealing the Law of Unintended Consequences? Comment

T. D. Rowe, Jr.

615-26


Judicial Preferences, Public Choice and the Rules of Procedure

J. R. Macey

627-46


Judges' Self-Interest and Procedural Rules: Comment

J. C. Alexander

647-65


 


Volume 23(2)


Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient Than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income

L. Kaplow and S. Shavell

667-81


The Economics of Anticipatory Adjudication

W. M. Landes and R. A. Posner

683-719


The Puzzling (In)dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach

J. M. Ramseyer

721-47


Regulatory Takings: When Should Compensation Be Paid?

T. J. Miceli and K. Segerson

749-76


A Comparison of Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Medical Malpractice

H. S. Farber and M. J. White

777-806


The Role of Lawyers in Changing the Law

P. H. Rubin and M. J. Bailey

807-31


The Potentially Perverse Effects of Corporate Criminal Liability

J. Arlen

832-67


Marriage and Opportunism

M. F. Brinig and S. M. Crafton

869-94


Noncompensatory Damages and Potential Insolvency

J. Boyd and D. E. Ingberman

895-910


 


Volume 24(1)


Alternative Dispute Resolution: An Economic Analysis.

S. Shavell

1-28.


Effort, Information, Settlement, Trial.

B. L. Hay

29-62.


The Market for Shares of Companies with Unlimited Liability: The Case of American Express.

P. Z. Grossman

63-85.


Settlement Escrows.

R. H. Gertner and G. P. Miller

87-122.


Some Experimental Evidence on Differences between Student and Prisoner Reactions to Monetary Penalties and Risk.

M. K. Block and V. E. Gerety

123-38.


Contract Remedies and Options Pricing.

P. G. Mahoney

139-63.


Revelation of Private Information about Unpaid Notes in the Trade Credit Bill System in Japan.

T. Matsumura and M. Ryser

165-87.


Defining Efficient Care: The Role of Income Distribution.

T. J. Miceli and K. Segerson

189-208.


The Trial Selection Hypothesis without the 50 Percent Rule: Some Experimental Evidence.

R. E. Thomas

209-28.


The Efficient Scope of Private Transactions-Cost-reducing Institutions: The Successes and Failures of Commodity Exchanges

S. C. Pirrong

229-55.


 


Volume 24(2)


Politics and the Judiciary: The Influence of Judicial Background on Case Outcomes.

O. Ashenfelter, T. Eisenberg and S. J. Schwab

257-82.


Contract Law in the Welfare State: A Defense of the Unconscionability Doctrine, Usury Laws and Related Limitations on the Freedom to Contract.

E. A. Posner

283-320.


Some Economic Considerations in the Intellectual Property Protection of Software.

K. W. Dam

321-378.


The Appeals Process as a Means of Error Correction.

S. Shavell

379-426.


The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects to Test the Priest-Klein Hypothesis.

P. Siegelman and J. J. Donohue III

427-62.


Medical Malpractice Insurance in the Wake of Liability Reform.

W. K. Viscusi and P. Born

463-90.


From Race to Age: The Expanding Scope of Employment Discrimination Law.

G. Rutherglen

491-522.


Should Criminal Penalties Include Third-Party Avoidance Costs?.

K. Daniel and J. R. Lott Jr.

523-34.


Decisions to Retain Attorneys and File Lawsuits: An Examination of the Comparative Negligence Rule in Accident Law.

S. Low and J. Kiholm Smith

535-57.  


Volume 25(1)


A New Theory Concerning the Credibility and Success of Threats to Sue.

L. A. Bebchuk

1-25.


On the Degree of Confidence for Adverse Decisions.

F. Schauer and R. Zeckhauser

pagea.


Coase v. Pigou Reexamined.

A. W. B. Simpson

53-97.


Coase v. Pigou Reexamined: An Addendum.

A. W. B. Simpson

99-101.


Law and Economics and A. W. Brian Simpson.

R. H. Coase

103-19.


Corporal Punishments and Optimal Incapacitation.

S. S. Kan

121-30.


An Economic Analysis of Uniform State Laws.

L. E. Ribstein and B. H. Kobayashi

131-99.


The Market for Deadbeats.

M. F. Brinig and F. H. Buckley

201-32.


Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation.

D. Kessler, T. Meites and G. Miller

233-59.


Settlement of Litigation under Rule 68: An Economic Analysis.

T-Y. Chung

261-86.


 


Volume 25(2)


Context-Dependence in Legal Decision Making.

M. Kelman, Y. Rottenstreich and A. Tversky

287-318.


Corporate Crime.

D. Fischel and A. O. Sykes

319-49.


Buyouts in Large Companies.

B. Hermalin and A. Schwartz

351-70.


An Analysis of Fee Shifting Based on the Margin of Victory: On Frivolous Suits, Meritorious Suits, and the Role of Rule 11.

L. A. Bebchuk and H. F. Chang

371-403.


"Bad Faith" Breach of Contract by First-Party Insurers.

A. O. Sykes

405-44.


Settling Multidefendant Lawsuits: The Advantage of Conditional Setoff Rules.

D. Klerman

445-62.


Damage Multipliers in Market Relationships.

R. Craswell

463-92.


Any Frequency of Plaintiff Victory at Trial Is Possible.

S. Shavell

493-501.


Contingent Fees and Agency Costs.

B. L. Hay

503-33.

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