The Journal of Legal Studies

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Volume 19, issue 2, 1990

Energy and Efficiency in the Realignment of Common-Law Water Rights pp. 261-96

Carol M Rose

Government as Definer of Property Rights: Indian Lands, Ethnic Externalities, and Bureaucratic Budgets pp. 297-335

Fred S McChesney

Testing the Selection Effect: A New Theoretical Framework with Empirical Tests pp. 337-58

Theodore Eisenberg

A Positive Theory of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine pp. 359-97

Ronald J Allen, Mark F Grady, Daniel D Polsby and Michael S Yashko

Insecurity, Repudiation, and Cure pp. 399-434

Richard Craswell

Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts pp. 435-66

Steven Shavell

Contract Law, Mutual Mistake, and Incentives to Produce and Disclose Information pp. 467-88

Janet Smith and Richard Smith

A Theory of Administrative Law pp. 489-530

William Bishop

The Law and Economics of Risk: Introduction pp. 531-33

Richard A Epstein and Geoffrey R Miller

Commercial Relationships and the Selection of Default Rules for Remote Risks pp. 535-81

Clayton P Gillette

Self-interest and Cooperation in Long-term Contracts pp. 583-96

Douglas G Baird

A Relational Theory of Default Rules for Commercial Contracts pp. 597-616

Robert E Scott

Apportioning Damages among Potentially Insolvent Actors pp. 617-51

Lewis A Kornhauser and Richard L Revesz

Multiple Tortfeasors and the Economy of Prevention pp. 653-78

Mark F Grady

Insolvency and Joint Torts: A Comment pp. 679-89

William Landes

Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution, and Recurring Wrongs pp. 691-726

Saul Levmore

Recurring Misses pp. 727-37

Daniel A Farber

Market-Share Allocations in Tort Law: Strengths and Weaknesses pp. 739-46

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation pp. 747-79

Roger Noll and James E Krier

Risk and Design pp. 781-90

James E Krier

Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment pp. 791-99

Colin Camerer

Some Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Risk Regulation: Comment pp. 801-08

Matthew L Spitzer

The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes pp. 809-36

W Viscusi

Products Liability Law and Insurance Profitability pp. 837-44

Kenneth S Abraham

The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes: Comment pp. 845-49

Michael Trebilcock

Volume 19, issue 1, 1990

Why Do Universities Have Endowments? pp. 3-42

Henry Hansmann

The Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in a Second-Best World pp. 43-94

Alan O Sykes

Liability Salvage--By Private Ordering pp. 95-111

Wayne T Brough

Why Tender Offers? The Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Supply of Stock, and Signaling pp. 113-43

Lloyd R Cohen

Empirical Evidence on the Selection Hypothesis and the Decision to Litigate or Settle pp. 145-72

Linda R Stanley and Don L Coursey

The Incentive to Sue: An Option-Pricing Approach pp. 173-87

Bradford Cornell

Second Thoughts on the Public-Good Justification for Government Poverty Programs pp. 189-202

Dwight R Lee and Richard B McKenzie

An Experimental Study of Single-Actor Accidents pp. 203-33

Lewis Kornhauser and Andrew Schotter

Indemnity, Settlement, and Litigation: Comment and Extension pp. 235-41

Philip L Hersch

A Transaction-Costs Explanation for Why the Poor Are More Likely to Commit Crime pp. 243-45

Lott, John R,

The Courts and the Market: An Economic Analysis of Contingent Fees in Class-Action Litigation pp. 247-60

William J Lynk

Volume 18, issue 2, 1989

A Theory of Loan Priorities pp. 209-61

Alan Schwartz

The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan pp. 263-90

John Ramseyer and Minoru Nakazato

The Economic Nature of Wildlife Law pp. 291-324

Dean Lueck

An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law pp. 325-63

William Landes and Richard Posner

Performance, Reliance, and One-Sided Information pp. 365-401

Richard Craswell

Why Comply: One-Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws pp. 403-14

Lott, John R, and Russell D Roberts

Punitive Damages and the Rule of Law: The Role of Defendant's Wealth pp. 415-25

Kenneth S Abraham and Jeffries, John C,

Causation and Incentives to Take Care under the Negligence Rule pp. 427-47

Marcel Kahan

Volume 18, issue 1, 1989

The Efficient Breach Fallacy pp. 1-24

Daniel Friedmann

Dikes, Dams, and Vicious Hogs: Entitlement and Efficiency in Tort Law pp. 25-50

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence pp. 51-77

John Ramseyer

The Statistical Basis of Athenian-American Constitutional Theory pp. 79-103

David Levy

Beyond Foreseeability: Consequential Damages in the Law of Contract pp. 105-38

Richard A Epstein

Indemnity, Settlement, and Litigation, or I'll Be Suing You pp. 157-79

John C Hause

The Assignment of Rights, Entry Effects, and the Allocation of Resources pp. 181-89

Clifford G Holderness

Trials and Settlements in the Criminal Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Dispositions and Sentencing pp. 191-208

Harold W Elder