The Journal of Legal Studies

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Volume 33, issue 2, 2004

Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States pp. 255-282

Laura M. Argys and Naci Mocan

Murders of Passion, Execution Delays, and the Deterrence of Capital Punishment pp. 283-321

Joanna M. Shepherd

Should Plaintiffs Win What Defendants Lose? Litigation Stakes, Litigation Effort, and the Benefits of Decoupling pp. 323-354

Albert Choi and Chris Sanchirico

The Effect of Bad-Faith Laws on First-Party Insurance Claims Decisions pp. 355-390

Mark J. Browne, Ellen S. Pryor and Bob Puelz

The Law of Duress and the Economics of Credible Threats pp. 391-430

Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar

Learning about Judicial Independence: Institutional Change in the State Courts pp. 431-473

F. Andrew Hanssen

The Economic Ascent of the Middle East’s Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism pp. 475-515

Timur Kuran

The Public Choice of Elder Abuse Law pp. 517-549

Margaret F. Brinig, Gerald Jogerst, Jeanette Daly, Gretchen Schmuch and Jeffrey Dawson

Volume 33, issue 1, 2004

Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform pp. 1-36

Joni Hersch and W Viscusi

When Ignorance Is Bliss: Information Exchange and Inefficiency in Bargaining pp. 37-58

George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore

Measuring Secrecy: A Cost of the Patent System Revealed pp. 59-84

Jeremy M. Grushcow

Felon Disenfranchisement and Voter Turnout pp. 85-129

Thomas J. Miles

An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining with Voluntary Transmission of Private Information pp. 131-156

Paul Pecorino and Mark Van Boening

Decreasing-Liability Contracts pp. 157-197

Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat

Measurement and Tax Depreciation Policy: The Case of Short-Term Intangibles pp. 199-229

David A. Weisbach

Do the Sentencing Guidelines Influence the Retirement Decisions of Federal Judges? pp. 231-253

Richard T. Boylan

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

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

Joseph L Smith and Emerson H Tiller

Taxation without Coordination pp. S61-94

Julie Roin

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