Content Posted in 2013
Accidental Suicide Pacts and Creditor Collective Action Problems: The Mortgage Mess, the Deadweight Loss, and How to Get the Value Back, Robert C. Hockett
A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions, Stewart J. Schwab
A Cognitive Theory of Fiduciary Relationships, Gregory S. Alexander
Actual Versus Perceived Performance of Judges, Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher, and Issi Rosen-Zvi
A Federalist Blessing in Disguise: From National Inaction to Local Action on Underwater Mortgages, Robert C. Hockett and John Vlahoplus
A History of GATT Unfair Trade Remedy Law--Confusion of Purposes, John J. Barceló III
Altering Attention in Adjudication, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich, and Chris Guthrie
A Moderate Defense of Hate Speech Regulations on University Campuses, W. Bradley Wendel
An Analysis of the Cessation of Contractual Relations, Robert A. Hillman
An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employment Contracts: What Do Top Executives Bargain For?, Stewart J. Schwab and Randall S. Thomas
Annexation of the Jury's Role in Res Judicata Disputes: The Silent Migration from Question of Fact to Question of Law, Steven J. Madrid
Anti-competitive Agreements: The Meaning of “Agreement”, George A. Hay
Antidumping Laws As Barriers to Trade--The United States and the International Antidumping Code, John J. Barceló III
Applying the Death Penalty to Crimes of Genocide, Jens David Ohlin
Approaches to Teaching Contracts: Enriching Case Reports, Robert A. Hillman
Assuming Facts Not In Evidence: A Response to Russell M. Coombs, Reforming New Jersey Evidence Law on Fresh Complaint of Rape, Sherry F. Colb
A Study of Uniform Commercial Code Methodology: Contract Modification Under Article Two, Robert A. Hillman
A Tale of Two Cities: From Davids Holdings to Metcash, George A. Hay and E. Jane Murdoch
A World Without Privacy: Why Property Does Not Define the Limits of the Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Sherry F. Colb
Bad and Not-so-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy, Lynn A. Stout
Balancing Inclusion and “Enlightened Understanding” in Designing Online Civic Participation Systems: Experiences from Regulation Room, Cynthia R. Farina, Mary J. Newhart, Josiah Heidt, and Jackeline Solivan
Betting the Bank: How Derivatives Trading Under Conditions of Uncertainty Can Increase Risks and Erode Returns In Financial Markets, Lynn A. Stout
Book Reviews, Dick Jonsson, Bizeck Jube Phiri, Gear M. Kajoba, and Obrian Ndhlovu
Breakfast with Justice Blackmun, Sherry F. Colb
Busting the Professional Trust: A Comment on William Simon’s Ladd Lecture, W. Bradley Wendel
Canada and the United States: A Changing Relationship in a Changing World, Panel Discussion and Prognostications, John J. Barceló III
Canada and the United States: A Changing Relationship in a Changing World, Panel Discussion on Regulation of Foreign Investment and Trade, John J. Barceló III
“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic on Negative and Positive Liberty in Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel
Challenges for Democracy and Trade: The Case of the United States, Chantal Thomas
Civil Obedience, W. Bradley Wendel
Coase, Rents, and Opportunity Costs, Stewart J. Schwab
Coase's Twin Towers: The Relation Between The Nature of the Firm and The Problem of Social Cost, Stewart J. Schwab
Collective Bargaining and the Coase Theorem, Stewart J. Schwab
Coming off the Bench: Legal and Policy Implications of Proposals to Allow Retired Justices to Sit by Designation on the Supreme Court, Lisa T. McElroy and Michael C. Dorf
Commentary on Presentations of Prof. Roberta S. Karmel & Prof. James A. Fanto, Gregory S. Alexander
Comment: More in Defense of U.C.C. Methodology, Robert A. Hillman
Comparing the Two Legal Realisms—American and Scandinavian, Gregory S. Alexander
Conflicts of Interest Under the Revised Model Rules, W. Bradley Wendel
Construction of the Uniform Commercial Code: UCC Section 1-103 and "Code" Methodology, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Excuse and Bankruptcy Discharge, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Lore, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Lore, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Modification and "Self-Help Specific Performance": A Reaction to Professor Narasimhan, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Modification in Iowa-Recker v. Gustafson and the Resurrection of the Preexisting Duty Doctrine, Robert A. Hillman
Contract Modification Under the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, Robert A. Hillman
Contrition in the Courtroom: Do Apologies Affect Adjudication?, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Chris Guthrie, and Andrew J. Wistrich
Convergences and Divergences in International Legal Norms on Migrant Labor, Chantal Thomas
Convicting Lennie: Mental Retardation, Wrongful Convictions, and the Right to a Fair Trial, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, and Susan E. Millor
Court Adjustment of Long-Term Contracts: An Analysis Under Modern Contract Law, Robert A. Hillman
Critiquing as an Opportunity, Joel Atlas
Current Trends in Illegal Reentry Cases, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr and Rachel J. Valente
Death of Paradox: The Killer Logic Beneath the Standards of Proof, Kevin M. Clermont
Debunking Some Myths About Unconscionability: A New Framework for U.C.C. Section 2-302, Robert A. Hillman
Dilemmas of Group Autonomy: Residential Associations and Community, Gregory S. Alexander
Does the Judge Matter? Exploiting Random Assignment on a Court of Last Resort to Assess Judge and Case Selection Effects, Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher, and Issi Rosen-Zvi
Don't Train Your Employees and Cancel Your "1-800" Harassment Hotline: An Empirical Examination and Correction of the Flaws in the Affirmative Defense to Sexual Harassment Charges, David Sherwyn, Michael Heise, and Zev J. Eigen
“Early-Bird Special” Indeed!: Why the Tax Anti-Injunction Act Permits the Present Challenges to the Minimum Coverage Provision, Michael C. Dorf and Neil S. Siegel
Economic Rationality vs. Ethical Reasonableness: The Relevance of Law and Economics for Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Educating Students about the Critiquing Process in a Lawyering Skills Class, Joel Atlas
Eminent Domain and Secondary Rent-Seeking, Gregory S. Alexander
Employment Discrimination, Stewart J. Schwab
Enriching the Contracts Course, Robert A. Hillman
Ethics for Skeptics, W. Bradley Wendel
Evidentiary Problems In--and Solutions For--The Uniform Commercial Code, Ronald J. Allen and Robert A. Hillman
Executive Branch Lawyers in a Time of Terror: The 2008 F.W. Wickwire Memorial Lecture, W. Bradley Wendel
Explanation in Legal Scholarship: The Inferential Structure of Doctrinal Analysis, W. Bradley Wendel
Ex Post ≠ Ex Ante: Determining Liability in Hindsight, Kim A. Kamin and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Extending the European Debt Discussion to Broader International Governance, Odette Lienau
Finding Invention, Oskar Liivak
Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Freedom, Coercion, and the Law of Servitudes, Gregory S. Alexander
Freedom from Incarceration: Why is This Right Different from All Other Rights?, Sherry F. Colb
Free Speech for Lawyers, W. Bradley Wendel
Globalization and the Border: Trade, Labor, Migration, and Agricultural Production in Mexico, Chantal Thomas
Governance Property, Gregory S. Alexander
Group Think: The Law of Conspiracy and Collective Reason, Jens David Ohlin
Hate and the Bar: Is the Hale Case McCarthyism Redux or a Victory for Racial Equality?, W. Bradley Wendel
History as Ideology in the Basic Property Course, Gregory S. Alexander
Household Dependence on Forest Income in Rural Zambia, Samuel M. Bwalya
Household Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Solid Waste Segregation and Recycling: The Case of Urban Kampala, Margaret Banga
How Efficient Markets Undervalue Stocks: CAPM and ECMH under Conditions of Uncertainty and Disagreement, Lynn A. Stout
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lawyer-Bashing: Some Post-Conference Reflections, W. Bradley Wendel
How Lawyers' Intuitions Prolong Litigation, Andrew J. Wistrich and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
How to Choose the Least Unconstitutional Option: Lessons for the President (and Others) from the Debt Ceiling Standoff, Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
How to Create a Commerical Calamity, Robert A. Hillman
How to Kill Copyright: A Brute-Force Approach to Content Creation, Kirk Sigmon
Impartiality in Judicial Ethics: A Jurisprudential Analysis, W. Bradley Wendel
Individual Conscience and the Law, Laura S. Underkuffler
Informal Methods of Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers, W. Bradley Wendel
Innocence, Privacy, and Targeting in the Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Sherry F. Colb
Insane Fear: The Discriminatory Category of "Mentally Ill and Dangerous", Sherry F. Colb
Institutional and Individual Justification in Legal Ethics: The Problem of Client Selection, W. Bradley Wendel
International Law and Prosecutorial Discretion, Jens David Ohlin
International Law at the Cornell Law School, John J. Barceló III and Lee E. Teitelbaum
Is the Concept of the Person Necessary for Human Rights?, Jens David Ohlin
It Takes a Village: Municipal Condemnation Proceedings and Public/Private Partnerships for Mortgage Loan Modification, Value Preservation, and Local Economic Recovery, Robert C. Hockett
Japan's New Lay Judge System: Deliberative Democracy in Action?, Zachary Corey and Valerie P. Hans
Judges as Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout
Judicial Reform, Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Zambia: From a Justice System to a Just System, Muna Ndulo
Juries: Arbiters or Arbitrary?, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Jury Jokes and Legal Culture, Valerie P. Hans
Keeping the Deal Together After Material Breach--Common Law Mitigation Rules, the UCC, and the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, Robert A. Hillman
Law and Neoclassical Economic Development in Theory and Practice: Toward an Institutionalist Critique of Institutionalism, Chantal Thomas
Law, Environment, and the “Nondismal” Social Sciences, William Boyd, Douglas Kysar, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Law Review Usage and Suggestions for Improvement: A Survey of Attorneys, Professors, and Judges, Max Stier, Kelly M. Klaus, Dan L. Bagatell, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Lawyering in the Christian Colony: Some Hauerwasian Themes, Reflections, and Questions, W. Bradley Wendel
Lawyers and Butlers: The Remains of Amoral Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Legal Ethics is about the Law, Not Morality or Justice: A Reply to Critics, W. Bradley Wendel
Libor Integrity and Holistic Domestic Enforcement, Milson C. Yu
Life-Cycle Justice: Accommodating Just Cause and Employment at Will, Stewart J. Schwab
Limited-Domain Positivism as an Empirical Proposition, Stewart J. Schwab
Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being, Theodore Eisenberg, Sital Kalantry, and Nick Robinson
Majoritarian Difficulty and Theories of Constitutional Decision Making, Michael C. Dorf
Mandatory Arbitration for Customers But Not for Peers: A Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Non-Consumer Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller, and Emily Sherwin
Maturing Patent Theory from Industrial Policy to Intellectual Property, Oskar Liivak
Maybe Dick Speidel Was Right about Court Adjustment, Robert A. Hillman
Michelman as Doctrinalist, Gregory S. Alexander
Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt: A Case Study of the Economic Family in Global Context, Chantal Thomas
Mineral Taxation in Zambia, Muna Ndulo
Mixed Signals: Rational-Choice Theories of Social Norms and the Pragmatics of Explanation, W. Bradley Wendel
Morality, Motivation, and the Professionalism Movement, W. Bradley Wendel
Moral Judgment and Professional Legitimation, W. Bradley Wendel
Nash Equilibrium and International Law, Jens D. Ohlin
Nonlegal Regulation of the Legal Profession: Social Norms in Professional Communities, W. Bradley Wendel
Nullifying the Debt Ceiling Threat Once and for All: Why the President Should Embrace the Least Unconstitutional Option, Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Odious Discrimination and the Religious Exemption Question, Laura S. Underkuffler
Oil and Water: Why Retribution and Repentance Do Not Mix, Sherry F. Colb
On International and Interdisciplinary Legal Ethics Scholarship, W. Bradley Wendel
Online Boilerplate: Would Mandatory Website Disclosure of E-Standard Terms Backfire?, Robert A. Hillman
On Property: An Essay, Laura S. Underkuffler
On the Very Idea of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin
"Our Cities Institutions" and the Institution of the Common Law, Bernadette Meyler
Our Love-Hate Relationship with Heroic Lawyers, W. Bradley Wendel
Overlooked in the Tort Reform Debate: The Growth of Erroneous Removal, Theodore Eisenberg and Trevor W. Morrison
Panel Discussion of The Excuse Factory, Stewart J. Schwab
Paying Paul and Robbing No One: An Eminent Domain Solution for Underwater Mortgage Debt, Robert C. Hockett
Pensions and Passivity, Gregory S. Alexander
Playing with Fire, Gregory S. Alexander
Pluralism and Property, Gregory S. Alexander
Policing Contract Modifications under the UCC: Good Faith and the Doctrine of Economic Duress, Robert A. Hillman
Predicting the Future of Employment Law: Reflecting or Refracting Market Forces?, Stewart J. Schwab
Probabilities in Probable Cause and Beyond: Statistical Versus Concrete Harms, Sherry F. Colb
Product Standards to Protect the Local Environment--The GATT and the Uruguay Round Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, John J. Barceló III
Profiling With Apologies, Sherry F. Colb
Promise against Peril: Of Power, Purpose, and Principle in International Law, Robert C. Hockett
Property: A Special Right, Laura S. Underkuffler
Property as Propriety, Gregory S. Alexander
Property's Ends: The Publicness of Private Law Values, Gregory S. Alexander
Public Values and Professional Responsibility, W. Bradley Wendel
Racial Epithets in the Criminal Process, Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, and Patrick M. Wilson
Razian Authority and its Implications for Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions, Stewart J. Schwab and Randall S. Thomas
Reasonable Accommodation of Workplace Disabilities, Stewart J. Schwab and Steven L. Willborn
Reason and Authority in Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Reclaiming Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law in the Darfur Case, George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
Rediscovering Discovery Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Reflections on the Development of the EU Law, Novitet Xh. Nezaj
Regulation of Lawyers without the Code, the Rules, or the Restatement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to Do with Civil Discovery Practice?, W. Bradley Wendel
Regulation Room: Getting "More, Better" Civic Participation in Complex Government Policymaking, Cynthia R. Farina, Dmitry Epstein, Josiah Heidt, and Mary J. Newhart
Regulation Room: How the Internet Improves Public Participation in Rulemaking, Jackeline Solivan and Cynthia R. Farina
Remedies and the CISG: Another Perspective, Robert A. Hillman
Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim, Oskar Liivak
Restricted Investment in Private Equity: The Volcker Rule's Incursion Into Banking?, Manasa Reddy Gummi
Rethinking the Concept of Exclusion in Patent Law, Oskar Liivak
Rolling Contracts, Robert A. Hillman
Rulemaking 2.0: Understanding and Getting Better Public Participation, Cynthia R. Farina and Mary J. Newhart
Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation that Counts, Cynthia R. Farina, Mary J. Newhart, Josiah Heidt, and Cornell eRulemaking Initiative
Same-Sex Marriage, Second-Class Citizenship, and Law's Social Meanings, Michael C. Dorf
Scientific Jury Selection and the Equal Protection Rights of Venire Persons, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Second-Order Linking Principles: Combining Vertical and Horizontal Modes of Liability, Jens D. Ohlin
Shareholder as Ulysses: Some Empirical Evidence on Why Investors in Public Corporations Tolerate Board Governance, Lynn A. Stout
Should Law Schools Teach Professional Duties, Professional Virtues, or Something Else? A Critique of the Carnegie Report on Educating Lawyers, W. Bradley Wendel
Should the World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor and Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas
Some Thoughts on the Conduct/Status Distinction, Sherry F. Colb
Spandrel or Frankenstein's Monster? The Vices and Virtues of Retrofitting in American Law, Michael C. Dorf
Standards for Revising Article 2 of the U.C.C.: The Nom Clause Model, Robert A. Hillman
Standing Room Only: Why Fourth Amendment Exclusion and Standing Can No Longer Logically Coexist, Sherry F. Colb
Stopping a Moving Target, Sherry F. Colb
Structural Differences in Rural Food Poverty between Female and Male-Headed Households, Ceren Gürkan and Issa Sanogo
Studying Labor Law and Human Resources in Rhode Island, Stewart J. Schwab
Subsidies and Countervailing Duties--Analysis and a Proposal, John J. Barceló III
Subsidies, Countervailing Duties and Antidumping After the Tokyo Round, John J. Barceló III
Symposium The International Legal Regime for Antarctica: Introduction, John J. Barceló III
Tailored Police Testimony at Suppression Hearings, Joel Atlas
Takings and the Nature of Property, Laura S. Underkuffler
Takings and the Post-Modern Dialectic of Property, Gregory S. Alexander
Takings, Narratives, and Power, Gregory S. Alexander
Talking About Difference: Meanings and Metaphors of Individuality, Gregory S. Alexander
Teaching Ethics in an Atmosphere of Skepticism and Relativism, W. Bradley Wendel
Technology, Transactions Costs, and Investor Welfare: Is a Motley Fool Born Every Minute?, Lynn A. Stout
The ABA Guidelines and the Norms of Capital Defense Representation, Russell Stetler and W. Bradley Wendel
The Antidumping Law: Repeal It or Revise It, John J. Barceló III
The Best Law School Subject, Robert A. Hillman and Robert S. Summers
The "Blaine" Debate: Must States Fund Religious Schools?, Laura S. Underkuffler
The Bounds of Necessity, Jens David Ohlin
The Concept of Property in Private and Constitutional Law: The Ideology of the Scientific Turn in Legal Analysis, Gregory S. Alexander
The Conviction of Andrea Yates: A Narrative of Denial, Sherry F. Colb
The Crisis in Modern Contract Theory, Robert A. Hillman
The Diverging Approach to Price Squeezes in the United States and Europe, George A. Hay and Kathryn McMahon
The Diversity of Contingent Workers and the Need for Nuanced Policy, Stewart J. Schwab
The Duty to Capture, Jens D. Ohlin
The Forgotten Originality Requirement: A Constitutional Hurdle for Gene Patents, Oskar Liivak
The French Jury at a Crossroads, Valerie P. Hans and Claire M. Germain
The Goldilocks Approach: Financial Risk and Staged Regulation, Charles K. Whitehead
The ICC—Two Courts in One?, George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
The Ideology of Judging and the First Amendment in Judicial Election Campaigns, W. Bradley Wendel
The Importance of Fault in Contract Law, Robert A. Hillman
The Legal Revolution in American Women’s Rights—and the Problems that Remain, Sonia Pressman Fuentes
The Limits of Behavioral Decision Theory in Legal Analysis: The Case of Liquidated Damages, Robert A. Hillman
The Mechanisms of Market Inefficiency: An Introduction to the New Finance, Lynn A. Stout
The Morality of Prophylactic Legislation (with Special Reference to Speed Limits, Assisted Suicide, Torture, and Detention Without Trial), Michael C. Dorf
The New Marriage Contract and the Limits of Private Ordering, Gregory S. Alexander
The Phenomenology of Gridlock, Josh Chafetz
The Publicness of Private Land Use Controls, Gregory S. Alexander
The Qualitative Dimension of Fourth Amendment "Reasonableness", Sherry F. Colb
The Rhetoric of Legal Backfire, Robert A. Hillman
The Right Not to Use in Property and Patent Law, Oskar Liivak and Eduardo M. Peñalver
The Separation of the Religious and the Secular: A Foundational Challenge to First Amendment Theory, Laura S. Underkuffler
The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800-1914, Gregory S. Alexander
The Unemployment Rate: Time to Give It a Rest?, Stewart J. Schwab and John J. Seater
"They are Destroying our Futures": Sexual Violence Against Girls in Zambia's Schools, Women and Law in Southern Africa Trust-Zambia, Cornell Law School. Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, and Cornell Law School. International Human Rights Clinic
Three Concepts of Roles, W. Bradley Wendel
Time and Property in the American Republican Legal Culture, Gregory S. Alexander
To Dollars from Sense: Qualitative to Quantitative Translation in Jury Damage Awards, Valerie P. Hans and Valerie F. Reyna
Two Cheers for the ALI Restatement's Provisions on Foreign Discovery, Douglas E. Rosenthal and Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Unborn Communities, Gregory S. Alexander
Undocumented Migrant Workers in a Fragmented International Order, Chantal Thomas
Union Raids, Union Democracy, and the Market for Union Control, Stewart J. Schwab
Value Pluralism in Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Vol. 2, no. 1 (May 2011) Masthead
Vol. 2, no. 1 (May 2011) Table of Contents
What is a Search? Two Conceptual Flaws in Fourth Amendment Doctine and Some Hints of a Remedy, Sherry F. Colb
What's Wrong with Being Creative and Aggressive?, W. Bradley Wendel
When Courts Determine Fees in a System with a Loser Pays Norm: Fee Award Denials to Winning Plaintiffs and Defendants, Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher, and Issi Rosen-Zvi
Who Decides the Arbitrators' Jurisdiction? Separability and Competence-Competence in Transnational Perspective, John J. Barceló III
"Whodunit" Versus "What Was Done": When to Admit Character Evidence in Criminal Cases, Sherry F. Colb
Who is the "Sovereign" in Sovereign Debt?: Reinterpreting a Rule-of-Law Framework from the Early Twentieth Century, Odette Lienau
Why 'Nonexistent People' Do Not Have Zero Well-Being but No Well-Being at All, Ori J. Herstein
Why Not a CEO Term Limit?, Charles K. Whitehead
Women in Prison in Argentina: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences, Cornell Law School. Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, Defensoría General de la Nación (Argentina), and University of Chicago. Law School. International Human Rights Clinic
Words that Deny, Devalue, and Punish: Judicial Responses to Fetus-Envy?, Sherry F. Colb
Working Borders: Linking Debates about Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor, Chantal Thomas
Wrongful Discharge Law and the Search for Third-Party Effects, Stewart J. Schwab