SSRN University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

1.

Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Apr 1999

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and William M. Landes

Crime Prevention Research Center and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 52,899

2.

Conspiracy Theories

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-03, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 199, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 387

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2010

Working Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 38,755

3.

Libertarian Paternalism Is Not An Oxymoron

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 May 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler

Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 9,722

4.

Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 2, pp. S127-S157, December 1999,

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 May 1999

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 7,608

5.

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 15 Apr 1999

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 6,267

6.

Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 30 Oct 1998

Accepted Paper Series

Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein

Duke University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,323

7.

The Law of Group Polarization

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 91

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Dec 1999

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,225

8.

Antitrust in the New Economy

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 106

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Dec 2000

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Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 5,202

9.

Agency Models in Law and Economics

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 92

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Jan 2000

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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 5,033

10.

Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs

U Chicago Law & Econ, Olin Working Paper No. 239; AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 05-06; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 85

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Mar 2005

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Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,766

11.

The Law and Economics of Contract Interpretation

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 229

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Nov 2004

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Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 4,628

12.

Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 85

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Oct 1999

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,341

13.

A Theory of Customary International Law

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 63

Number of pages: 100 Posted: 13 Jan 1999

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Jack Landman Goldsmith III and Eric A. Posner

Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,862

14.

Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, 2015, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 657

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 15 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl

University of Chicago - Law School and Microsoft Research

Downloads 3,763

15.

Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 72

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 27 May 1999

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Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,761

16.

Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 89

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Nov 1999

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Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 3,580

17.

TRIPs, Pharmaceuticals, Developing Countries, and the Doha 'Solution'

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 140

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Feb 2002

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Alan O. Sykes

Stanford University - Law School

Downloads 3,550

18.

An Economic Approach to the Law of Evidence

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 66

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 19 May 1999

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Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 3,382

19.

Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 404, The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 775-831, 2009

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Apr 2008

Accepted Paper Series

William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,334

20.

Financial Contract Design in the World of Venture Capital

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 68, Winter 2001

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Feb 2001

Accepted Paper Series

George G. Triantis

Stanford Law School

Downloads 3,328

21.

Climate Change Justice

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 354, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 177

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Aug 2007

Working Paper Series

Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein

University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,318

22.

Indefinitely Renewable Copyright

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 154

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 3,113

23.

Beyond the Precautionary Principle

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 149; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 38

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 May 2002

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,016

24.

Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 12; U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 124

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 May 2001

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,965

25.

The New Legal Realism

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming , U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 372, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 191

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Dec 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein

University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,881

26.

Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather Than Appointed Judiciary

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 357, 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 23 Aug 2007

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Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati and Eric A. Posner

New York University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 2,868

27.

What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-23, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 702

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014

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Dhammika Dharmapala

University of Chicago Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,837

28.

The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s)

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 532

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Sep 2010

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Randal C. Picker

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 2,532

29.

Economic Analysis of Contract Law after Three Decades: Success or Failure?

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 146

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Mar 2002 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2011

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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 2,506

30.

Interpretation and Institutions

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 156; U Chicago Public Law Research Paper No. 28

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Jul 2002

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Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,506

31.

Muslim Profiles Post-9/11: Is Racial Profiling an Effective Counterterrorist Measure and Does it Violate the Right to be Free from Discrimination?

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 288, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 123

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Mar 2006

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Bernard E. Harcourt

Columbia University

Downloads 2,498

32.

Economic Aspects of Bitcoin and Other Decentralized Public-Ledger Currency Platforms

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 685

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 17 May 2014

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David S. Evans

Global Economics Group

Downloads 2,376

33.

Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts?

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 405, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 217, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 236

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Mar 2009

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Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati and Eric A. Posner

New York University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 2,330

34.

Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 113

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Dec 2000

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William M. Landes

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 2,327

35.

Simplicity and Complexity in Contracts

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 93

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Jan 2000

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Karen Eggleston, Eric A. Posner and Richard J. Zeckhauser

Stanford University - Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 2,326

36.

The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses

Roger Blair and Daniel Sokol, eds., Oxford Handbook on International Antitrust Economics, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 623

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

Global Economics Group and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,290

37.

'Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker': American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures

University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 614, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 401

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2013

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Gary S. Becker, Francois Ewald and Bernard E. Harcourt

University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Columbia University

Downloads 2,225

38.

A Social Networks Theory of Privacy

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 230; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 79

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 03 Dec 2004

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Lior Strahilevitz

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 2,189

39.

Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: An Economic Perspective

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2003, U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 179

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Feb 2003

Accepted Paper Series

William M. Landes and Douglas Lichtman

University of Chicago Law School and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 2,145

40.

The Decline of the International Court of Justice

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 233; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 81

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Dec 2004

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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 2,145

41.

The Failure of Mandated Disclosure

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 516, U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 10-008

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 09 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2013

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Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider

University of Chicago Law School and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 1,956

42.

Moral Heuristics

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 180

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Mar 2003

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,953

43.

An FDA for Financial Innovation: Applying the Insurable Interest Doctrine to 21st Century Financial Markets

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 107, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 589, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 382

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl

University of Chicago - Law School and Microsoft Research

Downloads 1,952

44.

A Theory of International Adjudication

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 206; UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 146

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 01 Mar 2004

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Eric A. Posner and John Yoo

University of Chicago - Law School and University of California at Berkeley School of Law

Downloads 1,931

45.

Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal

University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 329, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 148

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jan 2007

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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 1,899

46.

Antitrust and Regulation

University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 312

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Oct 2006

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Dennis W. Carlton and Randal C. Picker

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,891

47.

The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 157; U of Chicago, Public Law Research Paper No. 30

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Aug 2002

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,882

48.

The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly?

Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 462

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Randal C. Picker

University of Chicago - Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,862

49.

Predictably Incoherent Judgments

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 131

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 08 Aug 2001

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Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Harvard Law School, Princeton University, University of California, San Diego and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Education

Downloads 1,838

50.

Competition and Privacy in Web 2.0 and the Cloud

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 414

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

Randal C. Picker

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 1,818

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