The Journal of Legal Studies

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Volume 29, issue 2, 2000

Regulating Consumer Bankruptcy: A Theoretical Inquiry pp. 585-613

Barry Adler, Ben Polak and Alan Schwartz

Property Rights in Emerging Platform Technologies pp. 615-48

Douglas Lichtman

Judicial Auditing pp. 649-83

Matt Spitzer and Eric Talley

Litigation and Settlement in the Federal Appellate Courts: Impact of Panel Selection Procedures on Ideologically Divided Courts pp. 685-710

Richard L Revesz

Is the Ninth Circuit Too Large? A Statistical Study of Judicial Quality pp. 711-19

Richard Posner

An Empirical Analysis of Supreme Court Justices' Decision Making pp. 721-52

Youngsik Lim

Evolution of the Common Law and the Emergence of Compromise pp. 753-81

Douglas Glen Whitman

Partition of Real Estate; or, Breaking Up Is (Not) Hard to Do pp. 783-96

Thomas Miceli and C F Sirmans

Taxes versus Legal Rules as Instruments for Equity: A More Equitable View pp. 797-820

Chris Sanchirico

Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income pp. 821-35

Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives: Introduction pp. 837-42

Matthew D Adler and Eric A Posner

Risk Equity pp. 843-71

W Viscusi

State and Federal Regulatory Reform: A Comparative Analysis pp. 873-912

Robert Hahn

Why Is Cost-Benefit Analysis So Controversial? pp. 913-30

Robert Frank

The Discipline of Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 931-52

Amartya Sen

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Population pp. 953-70

John Broome

The Stupidity of the Cost-Benefit Standard pp. 971-1003

Henry S Richardson

The Costs of Tragedy: Some Moral Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 1005-36

Martha C Nussbaum

On Justifying Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 1037-57

Lewis A Kornhauser

Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 1059-1103

Cass Sunstein

Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis When Preferences Are Distorted pp. 1105-47

Matthew D Adler and Eric A Posner

A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 1149-52

Gary Becker

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Definition, Justification, and Comment on Conference Papers pp. 1153-77

Richard Posner

Volume 29, issue 1, 2000

A Fine is a Price pp. 1-17

Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini

Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict pp. 19-34

Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat

Financial Slack Policy and the Laws of Secured Transactions pp. 35-69

George G Triantis

An Efficiency Analysis of the Line Drawing in the Tax Law pp. 71-97

David A Weisbach

Have Changing Liability Rules Compensated Workers Twice for Occupational Hazards? Earnings Premiums and Cancer Risks pp. 99-130

Lott, John R, and Richard L Manning

Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields pp. 131-69

Henry E Smith

Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Lessons from the Prewar Japanese Cotton Textile Industry pp. 171-203

Yoshiro Miwa and John Ramseyer

Incentives to Settle under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation pp. 205-36

Howard F Chang and Hilary Sigman

Do People Want Optimal Deterrence? pp. 237-53

Cass Sunstein, David A Schkade and Daniel Kahneman

An Optimal Personal Bankruptcy Procedure and Proposed Reforms pp. 255-86

Hung-Jen Wang and Michelle J White

Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement When Violators Have Heterogeneous Probabilities of Apprehension pp. 287-300

Robert Innes

Pildes on Dworkin's Theory of Rights pp. 301-07

Jeremy Waldron

Dworkin's Two Conceptions of Rights pp. 309-15

Richard H Pildes

Citations, Age, Fame, and the Web pp. 319-44

William Landes and Richard Posner

Scholarly Influence in a Diverse Legal Academy: Race, Sex, and Citation Counts pp. 345-68

Deborah Jones Merritt

Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from Within pp. 369-88

Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T Wells

The Most-Cited Law Reviews pp. 389-96

Fred R Shapiro

The Most-Cited Legal Scholars pp. 409-26

Fred R Shapiro

Determinants of Citations to Articles in Elite Law Reviews pp. 427-50

Ian Ayres and Fredrick E Vars

Volume 28, issue 2, 1999

Voting Paradoxes and Interest Groups pp. 259-81

Saul Levmore

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts pp. 283-339

Erik K Moller, Nicholas M Pace and Stephen J Carroll

Damage Caps and Settlement: A Behavioral Approach pp. 341-70

Linda Babcock and Greg Pogarsky

The Prestige and Influence of Individual Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals pp. 371-91

David Klein and Darby Morrisroe

Self-Help in the Digital Jungle pp. 393-412

Kenneth W Dam

Managing Delegation Ex Ante: Using Law to Steer Administrative Agencies pp. 413-59

David B Spence

Incentives and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice: Evidence from the Reform Act of 1978 pp. 461-87

Ian Domowitz and Robert L Sartain

The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement pp. 489-513

Lucian Bebchuk and Howard F Chang

Enforcement of Property Rights during the Russian Transition: Problems and Some Approaches to a New Liberal Solution pp. 515-44

Serguey Braguinsky

Volume 28, issue 1, 1999

On the Disutility and Discounting of Imprisonment and the Theory of Deterrence pp. 1-16

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

Regulating Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems: A Law and Economics Perspective pp. 17-54

Jonathan R Macey and Maureen O'Hara

Judicial Review of Settlements and Consent Decrees: An Economic Analysis pp. 55-99

Sanford I Weisburst

Toward a Taxonomy of Disputes: New Evidence through the Prism of the Priest/Klein Model pp. 101-30

Peter Siegelman and Joel Waldfogel

Tortious Interference with Contract versus "Efficient" Breach: Theory and Empirical Evidence pp. 131-86

Fred S McChesney

Courts as Casinos? An Empirical Investigation of Randomness and Efficiency in Civil Litigation pp. 187-203

Evan Osborne

The Effect of Judicial Institutions on Uncertainty and the Rate of Litigation: The Election versus Appointment of State Judges pp. 205-32

F. Andrew Hanssen

Should We Abolish Chapter 11? Evidence from Canada pp. 233-57

Timothy Fisher and Jocelyn Martel