The Journal of Legal Studies

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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

Volume 27, issue 2, 1998

The Economics of Desecration: Flag Burning and Related Activities pp. 245-69

Eric Rasmusen

Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges pp. 271-332

William Landes, Lawrence Lessig and Michael E Solimine

Measuring the Influence of Supreme Court Justices pp. 333-72

Montgomery N Kosma

Ranking and Explaining the Scholarly Impact of Law Schools pp. 373-413

Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T Wells

Bargaining with Informative Offers: An Analysis of Final-Offer Arbitration pp. 415-32

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

An Interest-Group Theory of Central Bank Independence pp. 433-53

Geoffrey P Miller

Property Rights, Costs, and Welfare: Delaware Water Mill Legislation, 1719-1859 pp. 455-71

John F Hart

Settlement Strategies pp. 473-81

Thomas Miceli

The Puzzling Phenomenon of Interest-Rate Discounts on Auto Loans pp. 483-501

Lloyd Cohen

Does Lawyer Advertising Adversely Influence the Image of Lawyers in the United States? An Alternative Perspective and New Empirical Evidence pp. 503-16

Richard Cebula

Does the English Rule Discourage Low-Probability-of-Prevailing Plaintiffs? pp. 519-35

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L Rubinfeld

Law and Economics Discovers Social Norms pp. 537-52

Robert C Ellickson

Social Norms, Social Meaning, and Economic Analysis of Law: A Comment pp. 553-65

Richard Posner

Meanings of Violence pp. 567-84

Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello

Expressive Law and Economics pp. 585-608

Robert Cooter

Social Meaning and the Economic Analysis of Crime pp. 609-22

Dan M Kahan

Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation through Reputational Cascades pp. 623-59

Timur Kuran

The New Chicago School pp. 661-91

Lawrence Lessig

"Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily Services pp. 693-724

Martha C Nussbaum

Why Rights Are Not Trumps: Social Meanings, Expressive Harms, and Constitutionalism pp. 725-63

Richard H Pildes

Symbols, Signals, and Social Norms in Politics and the Law pp. 765-98

Eric A Posner

Selective Fatalism pp. 799-823

Cass Sunstein

Volume 27, issue 1, 1998

Allocating Resources among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle against Crime pp. 1-43

John Donohue and Peter Siegelman

Compatible Incentives and the Purchase of Military Commissions pp. 45-66

Douglas Allen

Profit-Sharing Contracts in Hollywood: Evolution and Analysis pp. 67-112

Mark Weinstein

The Origin of the New York Stock Exchange, 1791-1860 pp. 113-40

Stuart Banner

Does the English Rule Discourage Low-Probability-of-Prevailing Plaintiffs? pp. 141-57

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L Rubinfeld

Efficiency in Western Water Law: The Development of the California Doctrine, 1850-1911 pp. 159-85

Mark Kanazawa

The Bankruptcy Puzzle pp. 187-207

F H Buckley and Margaret F Brinig

Do Right-to-Carry Laws Deter Violent Crime? pp. 209-19

Dan Black and Daniel S Nagin

The Concealed-Handgun Debate pp. 221-43

Lott, John R,

Volume 26, issue 2, 1997

Does Disputing through Agents Enhance Cooperation? Experimental Evidence pp. 331-45

Rachel Croson and Robert H Mnookin

Decision Costs and the Strategic Design of Administrative Process and Judicial Review pp. 347-70

Pablo Spiller and Emerson H Tiller

Legal Design and the Evolution of Commercial Norms pp. 377-411

Jody S Kraus

Burdens of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Economic Perspective pp. 413-31

Bruce L Hay and Kathryn E Spier

Should "Relative Safety" Be a Test of Product Liability? pp. 433-73

James Boyd and Daniel E Ingberman

Explaining the Variance in the Number of Tort Suits across U.S. States and between the United States and England pp. 477-89

Richard Posner

Tort Liability: A Minefield for Managed Care? pp. 491-519

Patricia Danzon

Procedural versus Substantive Controls of Mass Tort Class Actions pp. 521-73

George L Priest

The Fundamental Divergence between the Private and the Social Motive to Use the Legal System pp. 575-612

Steven Shavell

A Note on the Divergence between the Private and the Social Motive to Settle under a Negligence Rule pp. 613-21

Kathryn E Spier

The Predictability of Punitive Damages pp. 623-61

Theodore Eisenberg, John Goerdt, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman and Martin T Wells

Are Punitive Damages Really Insignificant, Predictable, and Rational? A Comment on Eisenberg et al pp. 663-77

A. Mitchell Polinsky

Volume 26, issue 1, 1997

Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns pp. 1-68

Lott, John R, and David Mustard

Using Lotteries to Expand the Range of Litigation Settlements pp. 69-94

James D Miller

Authors' and Artists' Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis pp. 95-143

Henry Hansmann and Marina Santilli

Learning Liability Rules pp. 145-64

Donald Wittman, Daniel Friedman, Stephanie Crevier and Aaron Braskin

Legal Rules and Social Norms in Japan's Secret World of Sumo pp. 165-201

Mark D West

Contracts as Bilateral Commitments: A New Perspective on Contract Modification pp. 203-37

Christine Jolls

Sequential versus Unitary Trials with Asymmetric Information pp. 239-58

Kong-Pin Chen, Hung-Ken Chien and C Y Cyrus Chu

Optimal Contingent Fees in a World of Settlement pp. 259-78

Bruce L Hay

Was the Fairness Doctrine a "Chilling Effect"? Evidence from the Postderegulation Radio Market pp. 279-301

Thomas Hazlett and David W Sosa

The Political Economy of Competition for Corporate Charters pp. 303-29

William J Carney