SSRN University of Virginia Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series

1.

The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1687, 2006, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 06-04

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 26 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman

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

Downloads 9,539

2.

The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution

New York University Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 762-858, June 2012, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-09-01, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-39

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 26 May 2012

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Law and Mila Versteeg

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 4,687

3.

The Substance of False Confessions

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2010, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-11

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Brandon L. Garrett

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 2,887

4.

The Exceptional First Amendment

KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-021

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Feb 2005

Working Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 2,841

5.

The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might be Right

University of Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-8

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jan 2000

Working Paper Series

Paul G. Mahoney

University of Virginia School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,616

6.

The Market for Corporate Law

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 162, pp. 134-172, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 377

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Oren Bar-Gill, Michal Barzuza and Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and Harvard Law School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,547

7.

Libertarian Paternalism Is an Oxymoron

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 136; FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 05-02

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Nov 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Gregory Mitchell

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 2,301

8.

The Origins of Judicial Review

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, Summer 2003

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 11 Aug 2003

Accepted Paper Series

John Yoo and Saikrishna Prakash

University of California at Berkeley School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 2,221

9.

Patent Signals

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2002

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Nov 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Clarisa Long

Columbia Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,122

10.

Judging Innocence

Columbia Law Review, January 2008

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 12 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Brandon L. Garrett

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,855

11.

The Futility of Unification and Harmonization in International Commercial Law

University of Virginia School of Law, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 99-10

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Jul 1999

Working Paper Series

Paul B. Stephan III

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,852

12.

Legal Reasoning

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-09

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Barbara A. Spellman and Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,848

13.

The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act

UVA School of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 03-17

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Dec 2003

Accepted Paper Series

James E. Ryan

Harvard University - Graduate School of Education

Downloads 1,816

14.

When Code Isn't Law

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 89, 2003

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Jun 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Tim Wu

Columbia University - Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,761

15.

Was Austin Right after All?: On the Role of Sanctions in a Theory of Law

Ratio Juris, Vol. 22, 2009

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,697

16.

A Quantitative Analysis of Writing Style on the U.S. Supreme Court

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 6, 2016, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 3

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Keith Carlson, Michael A. Livermore and Daniel Rockmore

Dartmouth College, University of Virginia School of Law and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics

Downloads 1,524

17.

Law and Economics of Consumer Finance

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 117

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 23 Feb 2001

Working Paper Series

Richard M. Hynes and Eric A. Posner

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 1,477

18.

Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2009

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 06 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Brandon L. Garrett and Peter J. Neufeld

University of Virginia School of Law and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Innocence Project

Downloads 1,449

19.

Sham Constitutions

101 California Law Review 863 (2013), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-09-03, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-55

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Law and Mila Versteeg

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,447

20.

Positivism Before Hart

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-01

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2010

Working Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,421

21.

When to Overthrow Your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 5, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-46, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 406

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 07 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013

Working Paper Series

Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,408

22.

An International Legal Framework for Surveillance

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 55, Issue 2, 2015, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2014-53

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 05 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Ashley Deeks

University of Virginia - School of Law

Downloads 1,357

23.

Manager-Investor Conflicts in Mutual Funds

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Mar 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Paul G. Mahoney

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,350

24.

Fingerprint Evidence in an Age of DNA Profiling

Brooklyn Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Nov 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Jennifer Mnookin

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

Downloads 1,344

25.

Why Law and Economics' Perfect Rationality Should Not Be Traded for Behavioral Law and Economics' Equal Incompetence

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 49

Number of pages: 159 Posted: 11 Apr 2002

Accepted Paper Series

Gregory Mitchell

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,270

26.

Organizational Culture and Police Misconduct

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2004, UVA School of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 03-6

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 03 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Barbara E. Armacost

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,252

27.

Strategic Vagueness in Contract Design: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 119, 2010, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2009-16

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Albert H. Choi and George G. Triantis

University of Virginia School of Law and Stanford Law School

Downloads 1,237

28.

The Supreme Court and Public Schools

UVA School of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 00-12

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 26 Oct 2000

Accepted Paper Series

James E. Ryan

Harvard University - Graduate School of Education

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,233

29.

The Political Economy of International Financial Regulation

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, No. 4, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-32, Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), 3rd Biennial Global Conference

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Pierre-Hugues Verdier

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,114

30.

A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park

New York University Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,113

31.

Corporate Financial Transactions

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Oct 1999

Robert F. Bruner, Robert S. Harris, Michael P. Dooley and Paul G. Mahoney

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Deceased and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,110

32.

Brown Vs. Board of Education: Law or Politics?

UVA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 02-11

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Nov 2002

Working Paper Series

Michael J. Klarman

Harvard University

Downloads 1,086

33.

Why Precedent in Law (and Elsewhere) is Not Totally (or Even Substantially) about Analogy

KSG Working Paper No. RWP07-036

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2009

Working Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,055

34.

Balancing, Subsumption and the Constraining Role of Legal Text

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,010

35.

War Everywhere: Human Rights, National Security, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terrorism

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 153, pp.675-761, 2004, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-175

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 05 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Rosa Brooks

Georgetown University

Downloads 1,010

36.

Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1620, 2006, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-16, FSU College of Law, Public Law Reserch Paper No. 160

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Jonathan Klick and Gregory Mitchell

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,000

37.

Discovery in State Criminal Justice

Forthcoming, Academy for Justice: A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna ed., 2017) , Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-15

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Darryl K. Brown

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 972

38.

Universal Jurisdiction and the Dilemmas of International Criminal Justice: The Sabra and Shatila Case in Belgium

HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY STORIES, Deena Hurwitz, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Doug Ford, eds., Foundation Press, 2009

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Deena R. Hurwitz

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 950

39.

The Legal Construction of Childhood

UVA School of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 00-18

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Oct 2000

Working Paper Series

Elizabeth S. Scott

Columbia University - Law School

Downloads 944

40.

What Is Judicial Ideology, and How Should We Measure It?

29 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 133 (2009), 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-47

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Joshua B. Fischman and David S. Law

University of Virginia School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 943

41.

Golden Parachute as a Compensation Shifting Mechanism

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

Albert H. Choi

University of Virginia School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 930

42.

Is There a Psychology of Judging?

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING, David E. Klein and Gregory Mitchell, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, KSG Working Paper No. RWP07-049

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Sep 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 927

43.

Freedom of Expression Adjudication in Europe and America: A Case Study in Comparative Constitutional Architecture

KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-019

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Feb 2005

Working Paper Series

Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 914

44.

Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-44, William and Mary Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 May 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Larry Alexander and Frederick Schauer

University of San Diego School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 914

45.

Paradox and Structure: Relying on Government Regulation to Preserve the Internet's Unregulated Character

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 85, P. 215, 2000

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 14 Feb 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Thomas B. Nachbar

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 904

46.

What’s Wrong with Qualified Immunity?

Florida Law Review, Vol. 62, 2010 , Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-21

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

John C. Jeffries Jr.

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 884

47.

Reform(aliz)ing Copyright

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 485, 2004, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 88

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 19 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher Jon Sprigman

New York University School of Law

Downloads 875

48.

A Rent Extraction Theory of Right of First Refusal

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Dec 2006

Working Paper Series

Albert H. Choi

University of Virginia School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 870

49.

A Positive Theory of Chapter 11

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 61

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 17 Nov 1998

Working Paper Series

Kevin A. Kordana and Eric A. Posner

University of Virginia - School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 864

50.

The Collusion Problem in Agency Law

University of Virginia School of Law, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-2

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Working Paper Series

George M. Cohen

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 862

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