The Journal of Legal Studies

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Volume 32, issue 1, 2003

Share Price Changes and the Arrival of Limited Liability in California pp. 1-25

Mark I. Weinstein

Race, Poverty, and American Tort Awards: Evidence from Three Data Sets pp. 27-58

Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok

“When the Devil Turns … ”: The Political Foundations of Independent Judicial Review pp. 59-89

Matthew C. Stephenson

“Tied to the Mast”: Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement Contracts pp. 91-120

Kathryn E. Spier

Correlated Values in the Theory of Property and Liability Rules pp. 121-151

Ian Ayres and Paul M. Goldbart

Origins of Common-Law Restrictions on Water Transfers: Groundwater Law in Nineteenth-Century California pp. 153-180

Mark Kanazawa

Nonvoted Ballots and Discrimination in Florida pp. 181-220

John R. Lott and Jr.

Kaplow and Shavell on the Substance of Fairness pp. 245-275

Richard Craswell

Locating Distribution pp. 277-302

Jeremy Waldron

Preference, Well-Being, and Morality in Social Decisions pp. 303-329

Lewis A. Kornhauser

Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice pp. 331-362

Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

Volume 31, issue 2, 2002

Anti-insurance pp. 203-32

Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat

Corporate Law's Limits pp. 233-71

Mark Roe

The Value of Prominent Directors: Corporate Governance and Bank Access in Transitional Japan pp. 273-301

Yoshiro Miwa and John Ramseyer

The Cost of Credibility: Explaining Resistance to Interstate Dispute Resolution Mechanisms pp. 303-26

Andrew T Guzman

On Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem pp. 327-49

Paul H Edelman

Introduction: The Demsetz Thesis and the Evolution of Property Rights pp. S331-38

Thomas W Merrill

The Rhino's Horn: Incomplete Property Rights and the Optimal Value of an Asset pp. S339-58

Douglas Allen

Transitions between Property Regimes pp. S359-71

Stuart Banner

Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerus Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights pp. S373-420

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Two Stories about the Evolution of Property Rights pp. S421-51

Saul Levmore

Exclusion versus Governance: Two Strategies for Delineating Property Rights pp. S453-87

Henry E Smith

Cowboys and Contracts pp. S489-514

Terry L Anderson and Peter J Hill

The Allocation of the Commons: Parking on Public Roads pp. S515-44

Richard A Epstein

The Black Death and Property Rights pp. S545-87

David D Haddock and Lynne Kiesling

The Economic Evolution of Petroleum Property Rights in the United States pp. S589-608

Gary Libecap and James Smith

The Extermination and Conservation of the American Bison pp. S609-52

Dean Lueck

Toward a Theory of Property Rights II: The Competition between Private and Collective Ownership pp. S653-72

Harold Demsetz

Volume 31, issue 1, 2002

Endowment Effects within Corporate Agency Relationships pp. 1-37

Jennifer Arlen, Matthew Spitzer and Eric Talley

The President's Rational Choice of a Treaty's Preratification Pathway: Article II, Congressional-Executive Agreement, or Executive Agreement? pp. S5-39

John K Setear

Does Repeat Play Elicit Cooperation? Evidence from Federal Civil Litigation pp. 39-60

Jason Scott Johnston and Joel Waldfogel

The Laws of War, Common Conjectures, and Legal Systems in International Politics pp. S41-60

James D Morrow

Taxation without Coordination pp. S61-94

Julie Roin

The Strategy of Judging: Evidence from Administrative Law pp. 61-82

Joseph L Smith and Emerson H Tiller

Rights as Signals pp. 83-98

Daniel A Farber

Reputation, Compliance, and International Law pp. S95-114

George W Downs and Michael A Jones

Efficient Time Bars: A New Rationale for the Existence of Statutes of Limitations in Criminal Law pp. 99-118

Yair Listokin

Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective pp. S115-39

Jack L Goldsmith and Eric A Posner

The Rule of One-Third pp. 119-37

Rick Geddes and Paul Zak

Optimal Title Search pp. 139-58

Matthew Baker, Thomas J Miceli, C F Sirmans and Geoffrey K Turnbull

Values and Interests: International Legalization in the Fight against Corruption pp. S141-78

Kenneth W Abbott and Duncan Snidal

Fear of the First Strike: The Full Deterrent Effect of California's Two- and Three-Strikes Legislation pp. 159-201

Joanna M Shepherd

The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization pp. S179-204

Warren F Schwartz and Alan O Sykes

To Settle or Empanel? An Empirical Analysis of Litigation and Settlement at the World Trade Organization pp. S205-35

Andrew Guzman and Beth A Simmons

International Environmental Law and Emotional Rational Choice pp. S237-58

Peter H Huang

Can Cooperation Survive Changes in Bargaining Power? The Case of Coffee pp. S259-83

Barbara Koremenos

Applying Rational Choice Theory to International Law: The Promise and Pitfalls pp. S285-306

Alexander Thompson

Rational Choice Theory and International Law: Insights and Limitations pp. S307-19

Robert O Keohane

Some Economics of International Law: Comment on Conference Papers pp. S321-29

Richard Posner

Volume 30, issue 2, 2001

Forecasting Life and Death: Juror Race, Religion, and Attitude toward the Death Penalty pp. 277-311

Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P Garvey and Martin T Wells

The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics pp. 313-50

W Viscusi

Why Shareholders Sue: The Evidence from Japan pp. 351-82

Mark D West

Subrogation and Insolvency pp. 383-99

Alan O Sykes

Should Courts Deduct Nonlegal Sanctions from Damages? pp. 401-22

Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat

Precontractual Reliance pp. 423-57

Lucian Bebchuk and Omri Ben-Shahar

Does Law Matter? The Separation of Ownership and Control in the United Kingdom pp. 459-84

Brian R Cheffins

Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited pp. 485-501

Oren Bar-Gill and Alon Harel

The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right pp. 503-25

Paul G Mahoney

Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Market Change, Social Norms, and the Trust "Reposed in the Workmen." pp. 531-67

David A Hyman

An Economic Explanation for Fraud and Abuse in Public Medical Care Programs pp. 569-77

Roger Feldman

Health Care Fraud and Abuse: A Tale of Behavior Induced by Payment Structure pp. 579-87

Arti K Rai

Hospitalists and the Doctor-Patient Relationship pp. 589-606

David Meltzer

Commentary of "Hospitalists and the Doctor-Patient Relationship." pp. 607-14

Harold C Sox

Response to David Meltzer's Paper "Hospitalists and the Doctor-Patient Relationship." pp. 615-23

Robert M Wachter

The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, ERISA Preemption, and Class Actions pp. 625-59

Richard A Epstein and Alan O Sykes

Comments on "The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, ERISA Preemption, and Class Actions." pp. 661-68

Patricia Danzon and Frank Sloan

In the Eye of the Storm: A Regulator's Perspective on Managed Care Organization Liability pp. 669-85

Nathaniel S Shapo

Medical Privacy and Research pp. 687-701

Norman M Bradburn

Comments on Privacy and Medicine pp. 703-07

Mike Koetting

Privacy and Medicine: A Comment pp. 709-14

Cass Sunstein

Managed Care, Health Care Quality, and Regulation pp. 715-41

Laurence C Baker and Mark B McClellan

The Effect of Managed Care Penetration on Treatment Patterns pp. 743-51

John Cawley

Managed Care and the Quality of Health Care: A Misguided Debate? pp. 753-58

Tomas Philipson

Volume 30, issue 1, 2001

The Political Economy of the Securities Act of 1933 pp. 1-31

Paul G Mahoney

The Roman Law of Blackmail pp. 33-52

R H Helmholz

Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High? pp. 53-88

John Ramseyer and Eric Rasmusen

The Lethal Effects of Three-Strikes Laws pp. 89-106

Thomas B Marvell and Carlisle Moody

Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts pp. 107-42

W Viscusi

Damage Caps, Motivated Anchoring, and Bargaining Impasse pp. 143-59

Greg Pogarsky and Linda Babcock

Harmless Error pp. 161-92

William Landes and Richard Posner

The Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Redistricting: An Empirical Analysis pp. 193-221

W. Crain

The Determinants of Judicial Prestige and Influence: Some Empirical Evidence from the High Court of Australia pp. 223-52

Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth

The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival, and Jewish Attitudes toward Competition in Torah Education pp. 253-75

Dennis Carlton and Avi Weiss