The Journal of Legal Studies

1974 - 2025

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Introduction pp. S1 - S7: Thomas J. Miles
Classical Liberal Property and the Question of Institutional Choice pp. S9 - S25: Thomas W. Merrill
Field Preemption: Opening the “Gates of Escape” from Tort Law pp. S27 - S52: Catherine M. Sharkey
Stakeholder Dynamics in Land Development Projects pp. S53 - S70: Karen Bradshaw
Hyde Park’s Two Turns in the Takings Clause Spotlight pp. S71 - S89: Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
The Genius of Common-Law Intellectual Property pp. S91 - S110: Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Lessons for Today’s Fields of Intellectual Property and Trade from Epstein’s Insights about Private Law and History pp. S111 - S128: F. Scott Kieff
Patent Injunctions, Economics, and Rights pp. S129 - S149: Adam Mossoff and Eric R. Claeys
Interest Groups Repairing Unconstitutionality: India’s Ninth Schedule pp. S151 - S178: Shruti Rajagopalan
Old Chicago against Static Welfare Economics pp. S179 - S198: Malte Dold and Mario J. Rizzo
Epstein on Health Law and Policy pp. S199 - S217: David A. Hyman
Transaction Cost Economics, Labor Law, and the Gig Economy pp. S219 - S237: Seth Oranburg and Liya Palagashvili
Still in Mortal Peril? Recent Research Suggests a New Agenda for Health Care Reform pp. S239 - S273: Anup Malani
Classical Liberal Criminal Law pp. S275 - S291: Rachel E. Barkow
Epstein on Private Discrimination: Searching for Common Ground pp. S293 - S312: Richard H. McAdams

Contract Design When Relationship-Specific Investment Produces Asymmetric Information pp. 219 - 260: Albert H. Choi and George Triantis
Judicial Accountability and Racial Disparity in Criminal Appeals pp. 261 - 302: Anna Harvey and Sidak Yntiso
Masked Evaluations: The Role of Gender Homophily pp. 303 - 330: Heidi H. Liu
Insolvency Institutions, Pledgeable Assets, and Efficiency pp. 331 - 378: Miguel Garcia-Posada
The Personal Finances of United States Supreme Court Justices and Decision-making in Economic Litigation pp. 379 - 405: Jordan Carr Peterson, Thora Giallouri and Elli Menounou
Discovery and Disclosure in a Signaling Model of Final-Offer Arbitration pp. 407 - 443: Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino
Optimal Enforcement with Heterogeneous Private Costs of Punishment pp. 445 - 472: Brian Galle and Murat C. Mungan

Rethinking Law School Tenure Standards pp. 1 - 34: Adam Chilton, Jonathan S. Masur and Kyle Rozema
Unexpected Effects of Expected Sanctions pp. 35 - 74: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Alex Raskolnikov
Religious Exemptions Increase Discrimination toward Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Masterpiece Cakeshop pp. 75 - 110: Netta Barak-Corren
A Theory of Defiant Courts in Nondemocratic Regimes pp. 111 - 144: Nuno Garoupa and Leyla D. Karakas
Domestic Politics and Settlement in Investor-State Arbitration pp. 145 - 185: Weijia Rao
Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance pp. 187 - 217: Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Curtis J. Milhaupt

On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles pp. 243 - 285: Steven Shavell
Short and Distort pp. 287 - 334: Joshua Mitts
Leniency and Damages: Where Is the Conflict? pp. 335 - 379: Paolo Buccirossi, Catarina Marvao and Giancarlo Spagnolo
Procurement and Accidents: The Liability Curse pp. 381 - 429: Juan-José Ganuza and Fernando Gómez
Cybercrime and Punishment pp. 431 - 466: Ye Hong and William Neilson
Extension: Lawyers’ Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists despite Intervention pp. 467 - 485: Holger Spamann

Disagreement and Capital Structure Complexity pp. 1 - 32: Kenneth Ayotte
Promises, Reliance, and Psychological Lock-In pp. 33 - 72: Rebecca Stone and Alexander Stremitzer
Harm Displacement and Tort Doctrine pp. 73 - 101: Yehonatan Givati and Yotam Kaplan
Disclosure Rules in Contract Law pp. 103 - 152: Oren Bar-Gill and Ariel Porat
Is Police Behavior Getting Worse? Data Selection and the Measurement of Policing Harms pp. 153 - 198: Aurélie Ouss and John Rappaport
Judicial Elections and Criminal Case Outcomes pp. 199 - 242: Gregory DeAngelo and Bryan McCannon

Price and Prejudice: An Empirical Test of Financial Incentives, Altruism, and Racial Bias pp. 245 - 274: Kristen Underhill
Deterrence, Contagion, and Legitimacy in Anticorruption Policy Making: An Experimental Analysis pp. 275 - 305: Amadou Boly, Robert Gillanders and Topi Miettinen
Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types: Theory and Evidence pp. 307 - 339: Yehonatan Givati
Conforming against Expectations: The Formalism of Nonlawyers at the World Trade Organization pp. 341 - 375: Julian Nyarko and Jerome Hsiang
Policy Disagreement and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the 1937 Court-Packing Plan pp. 377 - 408: Alex Badas
Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships pp. 409 - 440: Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan, S. Eric Reinhart and Glen Taksler
Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens pp. 441 - 473: Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

The Insignificance of Clear-Day Poison Pills pp. 1 - 44: Emiliano M. Catan
Constitutional Folk Theories as a Guide to Constitutional Values? The Case of the Legislative Veto pp. 45 - 79: Edward H. Stiglitz
Active Firms and Active Shareholders: Corporate Political Activity and Shareholder Proposals pp. 81 - 116: Geeyoung Min and Hye Young You
Rent Seeking and Bias in Appeals Systems pp. 117 - 157: Tim Friehe and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Costly Pretrial Agreements pp. 159 - 188: Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli and Giovanni Immordino
To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement pp. 189 - 216: Michael Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann and Alexander Tabarrok
Follow the Leader? Testing for the Internalization of Law pp. 217 - 244: Shaun Larcom, Luca Panzone and Timothy Swanson