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

1.

American Legal Realism

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 42

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Oct 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 14,900

2.

Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 34

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 7,525

3.

The End of Empire: Dworkin and Jurisprudence in the 21st Century

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 70

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Sep 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 6,103

4.

The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 72

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Mar 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 5,739

5.

In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence)

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 138

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2010

Working Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 2,957

6.

Interview About Legal Philosophy

LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: 5 QUESTIONS, Automatic Press, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 120

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 May 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 2,817

7.

Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 56, p. 1345, 2004, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 525662, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 63, U of Texas Law and Econ Research Paper No. 025

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 08 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Mark A. Lemley and R. Anthony Reese

Stanford Law School and University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 2,791

8.

Who May Be Killed? Anwar al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force

YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN, Vol. 13, M.N. Schmitt et al, eds., 2010, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 189

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Chesney

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 2,776

9.

Military-Intelligence Convergence and the Law of the Title 10/Title 50 Debate

Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Vol. 5, p. 539, 2012, University of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 212

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2015

Working Paper Series

Robert Chesney

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 2,663

10.

The Theory of Esoteric Law

Journal of Legal Education, Summer 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 121

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Feb 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 2,246

11.

Morality Critics

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY, B. Leiter & M. Rosen, eds., Oxford University Press, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 114

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Dec 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 2,082

12.

Why Evolutionary Biology is (so Far) Irrelevant to Law

U of Texas Law, Law & Econ Research Paper No. 81, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 89

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2014

Working Paper Series

Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg

University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 2,070

13.

Explaining Theoretical Disagreement

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 124

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Aug 2007

Working Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,918

14.

Financial Characteristics of Businesses in Bankruptcy

American Bankruptcy Law Journal

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 17 Nov 1999

Accepted Paper Series

Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Downloads 1,861

15.

Originalism is Bunk

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 28 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2009

Working Paper Series

Mitchell N. Berman

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 1,796

16.

Objectivity, Morality and Adjudication

OBJECTIVITY IN LAW AND MORALS, Brian Leiter, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Apr 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,765

17.

Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence

University of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 104

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Aug 2006

Working Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,733

18.

Is There an 'American' Jurisprudence?

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 74

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jul 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,491

19.

Who's Patenting What? An Empirical Exploration of Patent Prosecution

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 53, p. 2099, 2000, UC Berkeley, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 19, University of Texas Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper No. 010

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 13 Jun 2000

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Allison and Mark A. Lemley

University of Texas - McCombs School of Business and Stanford Law School

Downloads 1,405

20.

Law and the Humanities: An Uneasy Relationship

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Vol. 18, p. 155, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 121, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 109

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Oct 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School

Downloads 1,372

21.

The First Sale Doctrine in the Era of Digital Networks

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 57; and U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 004

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 30 Nov 2003

Accepted Paper Series

R. Anthony Reese

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 1,337

22.

Holmes, Nietzsche & Classical Realism

U Texas School of Law Pub. Law Working Paper No. 003

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Apr 2000

Working Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,323

23.

Science and Morality: Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty's Pragmatism

University of Chicago Law Review, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 128

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Jan 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,312

24.

A Positive Theory of Legal Negotiation

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 88, 2000

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Apr 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Russell B. Korobkin

UCLA School of Law

Downloads 1,288

25.

Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 227

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert Chesney

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 1,240

26.

Regulating Internet Payment Intermediaries

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 54; and U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 007

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Sep 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald J. Mann

Columbia University - Law School

Downloads 1,231

27.

Copyright and Internet Music Transmissions: Existing Law, Major Controversies, Possible Solutions

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 26

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Jul 2001

Accepted Paper Series

R. Anthony Reese

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 1,208

28.

Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction

Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-54, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 05 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Samuel L. Bray

UCLA School of Law

Downloads 1,198

29.

13 Ways of Looking at Dred Scott

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 800, p. 49, 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 153, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 115

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School

Downloads 1,194

30.

Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness and Accountability in the Law of Search

Cornell Law Review, September 2008, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 123, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1002453

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 26 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Frank A. Pasquale III and Oren Bracha

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Downloads 1,096

31.

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 671, 2014, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 561

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath

University of Texas School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Downloads 1,080

32.

Cost and Capital Punishment: A New Consideration Transforms an Old Debate

University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 2010, No. 1, 2010, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-04, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 208

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker

Harvard Law School and University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 1,046

33.

The Arbitrator and Mandatory Rules of Law

American Review of International Arbitration, Spring 2008

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Alan Scott Rau

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Downloads 1,042

34.

Medical Problems and Bankruptcy Filings

Norton's Bankruptcy Adviser, May 2000

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 May 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan and Melissa B. Jacoby

Harvard Law School, University of Virginia - Office of the President and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law

Downloads 1,027

35.

Access to Information, Access to Justice: The Role of Presuit Investigatory Discovery

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2007, U of Houston Law Center No. 2006-W-04, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 88

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2011

Working Paper Series

Lonny Hoffman

University of Houston Law Center

Downloads 1,018

36.

A Parting Reprise (Teaching Civil Procedure)

St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 47, 2003, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 97, U of Houston Law Center No. 2005-A-19

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Apr 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Lonny Hoffman

University of Houston Law Center

Downloads 1,005

37.

The Poor State of Health Care Quality in the U.S.: Is Malpractice Liability Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 038, U of Texas Public Law Research Paper No. 044, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2004-08

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Jan 2005

Working Paper Series

David A. Hyman and Charles Silver

Georgetown University and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Downloads 989

38.

Democracy and Dysfunction: An Exchange

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 50 (2017 Forthcoming), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 579

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin

University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School

Downloads 986

39.

The Interplay Between Norms and Enforcement in Tax Compliance

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-12; U of Texas, Public Law Research Paper No. 49

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Mar 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Leandra Lederman

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Downloads 868

40.

Punishment and Justification

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 129

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Jan 2007

Working Paper Series

Mitchell N. Berman

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 830

41.

Cyberspace Self-Governance: A Skeptical View from Democratic Theory

As published in California Law Review, Vol. 88, March 2000

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 27 Aug 1999

Accepted Paper Series

Neil Weinstock Netanel

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

Downloads 762

42.

The Dangerous Thirteenth Amendment

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 224, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 258

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Jul 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Yale University - Law School and University of Texas Law School

Downloads 761

43.

Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, p. 1789, 2010, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 200, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 164

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 19 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin

University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School

Downloads 743

44.

Is it Finally Time to Put 'Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt' Out to Pasture?

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 194

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

Working Paper Series

Larry Laudan

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 739

45.

Tax Compliance and the Reformed IRS

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-13; U of Texas, Public Law Research Paper No. 50

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Mar 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Leandra Lederman

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Downloads 730

46.

The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Cases as Lawmaking

Governance Studies at Brookings, January 22, 2010, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 165

Number of pages: 109 Posted: 27 Jan 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney and Rabea Benhalim

Brookings Institution, University of Texas School of Law and Brookings Institution

Downloads 716

47.

A Global Solution to Multinational Default

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 98, June 2000

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Mar 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Jay Lawrence Westbrook

University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Downloads 703

48.

The Applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the 'Global War on Terrorism'

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 93, Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 46, 2006

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Apr 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Derek Jinks

University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 655

49.

Constitutional Crises

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, 2009, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 161, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 146

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin

University of Texas Law School and Yale University - Law School

Downloads 653

50.

Social Science and Human Rights

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION, PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS, Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, & Andrew K. Woods, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-57, University of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 200

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks and Andrew Keane Woods

New York University School of Law, University of Texas School of Law and University of Kentucky - College of Law

Downloads 639

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