SSRN University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series

1.

The Laws of the Virtual Worlds

California Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 29 May 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Greg Lastowka and Dan Hunter

Rutgers School of Law and Swinburne Law School

Downloads 10,360

2.

The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Skeel Jr. and Frank Partnoy

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 9,641

3.

In God's Shadow: Unveiling the Hidden World of Victims of Domestic Violence in Observant Religious Communities

11 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 471 (2014), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-27

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 29 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Michal Gilad

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 4,988

4.

Against Financial Literacy Education

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-10, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-13

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Lauren E. Willis

Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Downloads 4,106

5.

Patent Portfolios

U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 56; U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 04-16

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 25 Aug 2004

Working Paper Series

R. Polk Wagner and Gideon Parchomovsky

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,374

6.

Evidence and Ideology in Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Education

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 415, 2009, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-08, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-6

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Lauren E. Willis

Loyola Law School Los Angeles

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,370

7.

Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 04-08; and U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 51

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 18 Mar 2004

Accepted Paper Series

R. Polk Wagner and Lee Petherbridge

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Downloads 1,905

8.

The Taxation of Private Equity Carried Interests: Estimating the Revenue Effects of Taxing Profit Interests as Ordinary Income

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-20, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-32, William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2008

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2008

Working Paper Series

Michael S. Knoll

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,679

9.

Investment Protection in Extraordinary Times: The Interpretation and Application of Non-Precluded Measures Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48, p. 307, 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-14

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 14 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2009

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Burke-White and Andreas von Staden

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg

Downloads 1,676

10.

The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-14, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 75, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-28

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 26 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Chris William Sanchirico

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,672

11.

Bayh-Dole Reform and the Progress of Biomedicine

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 66, No. 1

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Nov 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Arti K. Rai and Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Duke University School of Law and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 1,483

12.

As American as Apple Inc.: International Tax and Ownership Nationality

Tax Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, 2015, pp. 207-274, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-5, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-3

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Chris William Sanchirico

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,434

13.

Political Authority and Political Obligation

OXFORD STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, Vol. II, Leslie Green and Brian Leiter, eds., Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-37

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 16 Jul 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen R. Perry

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,424

14.

Life after Bilski

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, pp. 1315-1347, 2011, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1725009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-046, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-02, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-05, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2012-2003

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Mark A. Lemley, Michael Risch, Ted M. Sichelman and R. Polk Wagner

Stanford Law School, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,325

15.

Toward a Third-Wave Feminist Legal Theory: Young Women, Pornography and the Praxis of Pleasure

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Vol. 14, 2007, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-31

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 Mar 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Bridget J. Crawford

Pace University School of Law

Downloads 1,160

16.

Regulation and Regulatory Processes

REGULATION AND REGULATORY PROCESSES, Cary Coglianese, Robert A. Kagan, eds., Ashgate Publishing, 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-43

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Cary Coglianese and Robert A. Kagan

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of California, Berkeley - Center for the Study of Law and Society

Downloads 1,134

17.

The Legitimating Role of Consent in International Law

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, University of Penn Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 10-22

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew J. Lister

University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department

Downloads 1,084

18.

Brain Overclaim Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility: A Diagnostic Note

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 3, p. 397, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-35

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Apr 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen Morse

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,080

19.

Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications

Review of Industrial Organization, Forthcoming, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-15, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-15

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher S. Yoo

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,061

20.

Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 49, Pg. 53, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 07-08

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Burke-White

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,059

21.

Meta-Regulation and Self-Regulation

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON REGULATION, Martin Cave, Robert Baldwin, Martin Lodge, eds., 2010, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-11, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-06

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Cary Coglianese and Evan Mendelson

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Independent

Downloads 1,038

22.

A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty

New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 1283, 2006, U. of Penn. Law School, Pub. Law Research Paper No. 15

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Claire Finkelstein

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 996

23.

Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection

California Law Review, Vol. 99, p. 1117, 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-33

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Stephanos Bibas

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 965

24.

Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 28, No. 2, Pg. 263, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-07

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 09 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

James H. Stark and Douglas N. Frenkel

University of Connecticut - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 961

25.

Private Litigation in a Public Law Sphere: The Standard of Review in Investor-State Arbitrations

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 35, p. 283, 2010, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-23

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Burke-White and Andreas von Staden

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg

Downloads 918

26.

The Calculation of Prejudgment Interest

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-21

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Jun 2005

Working Paper Series

Michael S. Knoll and Jeffrey M. Colon

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 916

27.

Mental Disorder and Criminal Law

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 101, p. 885, 2011, University of Pennsylvania Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper No. 11-23

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 24 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen Morse

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 902

28.

Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience

LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES, Vol. 13, p. 529, Michael Freeman, ed., 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-27

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Aug 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen Morse

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 896

29.

Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West

Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 23, Pg. 208, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-18, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Paper No. 08-27

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Anita L. Allen

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 878

30.

Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & the Freedom to Invent New Forms

Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-26

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Paul H. Robinson, Adnan Zulfiqar, Margaret Kammerud, Michael Orchowski, Elizabeth A. Gerlach, Adam L. Pollock, Thomas M. O'Brien, John C. Lin, Tom Stenson, Negar Katirai, J. John Lee and Marc Aaron Melzer

University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent and Independent

Downloads 875

31.

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-12, Southern California Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2007

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Mar 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Princeton University

Downloads 873

32.

Media Concentration: Giving Up on Democracy

U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 16

Number of pages: 143 Posted: 19 Nov 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Edwin Baker

University of Pennsylvania Law School (Deceased)

Downloads 862

33.

The Federal Circuit and Patentability: An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness

Texas Law Review, Vol. 85, 2007, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-21, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-30, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2006-21

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Aug 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Lee Petherbridge and R. Polk Wagner

Loyola Law School Los Angeles and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 857

34.

The (Not So) Plain Meaning Rule

84 University of Chicago Law Review 539 (2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-21, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 590

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017

Accepted Paper Series

William Baude and Ryan D. Doerfler

University of Chicago - Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 843

35.

Regulatory Theory

A COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, Dennis Paterson, ed., Cambridge U. Press, Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-07

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Feb 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew D. Adler

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 811

36.

Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety

U Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 44, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 977, 2004, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-28, AEI-Brookings Joint Ctr Working Paper No. 03-12

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 19 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew D. Adler

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 805

37.

Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission

Journal of Law and Biosciences, vol 1, pp 224-236 (2014)

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Owen D. Jones, Richard J. Bonnie, BJ Casey, Andre Davis, David L. Faigman, Morris B. Hoffman, Read Montague, Stephen Morse, Marcus E. Raichle, Jennifer A. Richeson, Elizabeth S. Scott, Laurence Steinberg, Kim A. Taylor-Thompson, Anthony D. Wagner and Gideon Yaffe

Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Virginia - School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University School of Medicine, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University, New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Psychology and Yale Law School

Downloads 786

38.

Law in a Time of Emergency: States of Exception and the Temptations of 9/11

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 6, pp. 1001-1083, 2004

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 29 Oct 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Kim Lane Scheppele

Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Downloads 778

39.

Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-15, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-29, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 345

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner

Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 767

40.

Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure

Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 41, p. 567, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-11, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-12

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 06 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Amy L. Wax

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 762

41.

Fostering Cumulative Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: The Role of Patents and Antitrust

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 16, Spring 2001

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 May 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Arti K. Rai

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 762

42.

Rethinking Broadband Internet Access

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 22, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research No. 08-34, U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-16

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 26 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 762

43.

Censorship by Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, and the Problem of the Weakest Link

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, No. 11, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-45

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 30 Nov 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Seth F. Kreimer

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 759

44.

The Non-Problem of Free Will in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Vol. 25, pp. 203-220, 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-19

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Apr 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Stephen Morse

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 751

45.

Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 78, Pg. 697, 2010, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-33, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-26, TPRC 2009

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher S. Yoo

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 729

46.

Crimea and the International Legal Order

Survival: Global Politics & Strategy, Vol. 56, P. 65, 2014, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-24

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 31 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

William W. Burke-White

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 726

47.

Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 159, p. 335, 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-06

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Seth F. Kreimer

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 715

48.

The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-37, Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, p. 1471, 2008

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Skeel Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 706

49.

Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers

UCLA Law Review Vol. 59, p. 1474, 2012, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-45

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dorothy E. Roberts

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 699

50.

Did Phillips Change Anything? Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Claim Construction Jurisprudence

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE COMMON LAW, S. Balganesh, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012 , U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-27, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-33, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-28

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

R. Polk Wagner and Lee Petherbridge

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Downloads 692

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