Brian Bix

University of Minnesota Law School

Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy

229 19th Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55455

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1.

Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro, eds., Oxford University Press, 2002
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Dec 1999
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law Theory

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-12
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law, Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics

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Legal Positivism

BLACKWELL GUIDE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, Martin P. Golding & William A. Edmundson, eds., Blackwell, 2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jan 2003
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Robert Alexy's Radbruch Formula, and the Nature of Legal Theory

Rechtstheorie, Vol. 37, pp. 139-149, 2006, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 06-13
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Robert Alexy, Gustav Radbruch, legal positivism, natural law theory, nature of law, conceptual theories, unjust laws

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Consent in Contract Law

THE ETHICS OF CONSENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE, Alan Wertheimer, Franklin G. Miller, eds., Oxford University Press, 2010, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-36
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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contract, consent

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Joseph Raz and Conceptual Analysis

American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2007, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-65
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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conceptual analysis, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, Joseph Raz, naturalism

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On the Dividing Line between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 5, Aug. 2000
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Feb 2001
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Law as an Autonomous Discipline

Minnesota Public Law Research Paper No. 02-8, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES, Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet, eds., pp. 975-987, Oxford University Press, 2003
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Sep 2007
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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autonomy of law, formalism, legal realism, CLS

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John Austin and Constructing Theories of Law

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2010
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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John Austin, Jurisprudence, Theory Construction, Joseph Raz, Hans Kelsen

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Diverging Perspectives on Electronic Contracting in the U.S. And the E.U.

Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 54, pp. 175-190, 2006, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-15
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Brian Bix and Jane K. Winn
University of Minnesota Law School and University of Washington - School of Law
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contract law, european union law, rolling contracts, unfair contract terms directive, distance selling directive, shrink wrap, browse wrap, UCITA

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H.L.A. Hart and the Hermeneutic Turn in Legal Theory

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 52, pp. 167-199, 1999
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Jun 1999
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy

ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz, III, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-05
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 26 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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analytical legal philosophy, legal theory, legal positivism

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Legal Philosophy in America

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, Cheryl Misak, ed., Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-14
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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jurisprudence, legal realism, law and economics, Ronald Dworkin, Lon Fuller, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, critical legal studies, legal process

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Law and Language: How Words Mislead Us

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-22
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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contract law, family law, assent, substituted judgment, same-sex marriage, alimony, American legal realism, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Felix Cohen

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Will Versus Reason: Truth in Natural Law, Positive Law, and Legal Theory

TRUTH: STUDIES OF A ROBUST PRESENCE, Kurt Pritzl, ed., Catholic University of American Press, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Cautions and Caveats for the Application of Wittgenstein to Legal Theory

LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, Campbell, O'Rourke & Shier, eds., MIT Press, pp. 217-229, 2005, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-2
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Nov 2004
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Legal Positivism and 'Explaining' Normativity and Authority

American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2006, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-05
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 23 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal positivism, analytical legal theory, natural law theory

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Radbruch's Formula and Conceptual Analysis

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 56, pp. 45-57, 2011, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-13
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2012
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Gustav Radbruch, Radbruch's Formula, Robert Alexy, Conceptual Analysis

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Contract Rights and Remedies, and the Divergence between Law and Morality

Ratio Juris, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 194-211, June 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Theorizing about Law

Analisi e Diritto, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-52
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Oct 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Jurisprudence, legal positivism, natural law theory, hermeneutics, legal truth, historical jurisprudence

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Ross and Olivecrona on Rights

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-14, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 2009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal rights, Scandinavian legal realism, Alf Ross, Karl Olivecrona

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Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried

Suffolk Law Review, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 11-47
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinacy?

Ratio Juris, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 281-295, September 2003 , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-01
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal determinacy, semantic theories, Michael Moore

24.

Best Interests of the Child

The Chicago Companion to the Child, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-08
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 Feb 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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family law, custody, best interests

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On Description and Legal Reasoning

RULES AND REASONING, Linda Meyer, ed., Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 7-28, 1999
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 May 2000
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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When Law Becomes Morality: Comments on Mark Greenberg's Moral Impact Theory of Law

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-27
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 May 2014 Last Revised: 29 May 2014
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Kelsen and Normativity Revisited

(translated into Spanish for) Carlos Bernal & Marcelo Porciuncula (eds.), Kelsen Para Erizos: Ensays en Honor a Stanley L. Paulson [Festschrift for Stanley L. Paulson] (University Externado de Columbia, 2017), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 13-27
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2017
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Raz on Necessity

Law and Philosophy, vol. 22, pp. 537-559 (2003)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 26 May 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Conceptual Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies

Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 32, 2000, Minnesota Public Law Research Paper No. 02-1
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Jul 2001
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Legal Interpretation and the Philosophy of Language

Peter M. Tiersma & Lawrence M. Solan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (Oxford University Press, 2012), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Aug 2015
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal interpretation, philosophy of language, legal indeterminacy, H.L.A. Hart, open texture

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Engagement With Economics: the New Hybrids of Family Law/Law & Economics Thinking

NORMS AND VALUES, Aristides Hatzis, ed., Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Apr 2001
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Family law, law and economics, social norms

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Choice of Law and Marriage: A Proposal

Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 36, pp. 255-271, 2002
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Enforcement and the Harm Principle

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-51
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Nov 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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contract, promise, harm principle, consent

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Private Ordering and Family Law

Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Vol. 23, pp. 249-285, 2010, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-59
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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family law, contracts, premarital agreements, surrogacy agreements, coparenting agreements

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The Promise and Problems of Universal, General Theories of Contract Law

Ratio Juris, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-39
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2017
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law, Legal Philosophy, Theories of Doctrinal Areas of Law

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Bargaining in the Shadow of Love: The Enforcement of Premarital Agreements and How We Think About Marriage

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 40, pp. 145-207, October 1998
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Jan 1999
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Physician Assisted Suicide and Federalism

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, Vol. 17, 2003
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Apr 2003
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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New Legal Realism and the Explanation of Judicial Behavior: Doctrine, Data, and High Theory

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-42
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2014
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal realism, judicial behavior, attitudinal model, legal indeterminacy

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Positively Positivism

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, pp. 889-923, August 1999
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Oct 1999
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Consent and Contracts

Andreas Müller & Peter Schaber (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent (Routledge, 2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Sep 2017
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law, Consent, Freedom of Contract

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The Role of Contract: Stewart Macaulay's Lessons from Practice

Jean Braucher, John Kidwell and William Whitford (eds.), Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay: On the Empirical and the Lyrical (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013) , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-60
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2016
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Stewart Macaulay, Law & Society, Contract Law, contextual decision-making

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The Ali Principles and Agreements: Seeking a Balance between Status and Contract

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Oct 2004
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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premarital agreements, antenuptial agreements, marital agreements, separation agreements

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State Interests in Marriage, Interstate Recognition, and Choice of Law

Creighton Law Review, 2005
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Jan 2005
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Family Law, conflict of laws, constitutional law, marriage, federalism

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A New Historical Jurisprudence?

95 Washington University Law Review 1035 (2018).
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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HIstorical Jurisprudence, Brian Tamanaha

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State of the Union: The States' Interest in the Marital Status of Their Citizens

University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 May 2000 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2012
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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marriage, federalism, covenant marriage, same-sex marriage, DOMA

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Human Rights, Peace, and the Relationship of Moral and Legal Rights

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 31 Aug 2017
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal normativity, H. L. A. Hart, Mark Greenberg, Joseph Raz

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A New Uniform Law for Premarital and Marital Agreements

46 Family Law Quarterly 313 (2012), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 13-02
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Jan 2013
Barbara Ann Atwood and Brian Bix
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law and University of Minnesota Law School
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Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act, UPMAA, Uniform Premarital Agreements Act, premarital, marital

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The Bogeyman of Three (or More) Parents

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-22
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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parental rights, multiple parenting, family law

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Everything I Know About Marriage I Learned from Law Professors

San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-10
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Conflict of Laws

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The Moral Obligation to Perform Contracts

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 May 2021
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Pluralism and Decentralization in Marriage Regulation

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-06
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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marriage, divorce, covenant marriage, premarital agreements

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Domestic Agreements

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 35, pp. 1773-1771, 2007, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-23
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 May 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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family law, same-sex marriage, co-parenting agreements, separation agreements, premarital agreements

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Rights, Responsibilities, and Roles: A Comment on Waldron

Arizona State Law Journal, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-48
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2012
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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How to Plot Love on an Indifference Curve (Review of: Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law, by June Carbone)

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Jan 2001
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Agreements in Family Law

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 12-43
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2012
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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family law, private ordering, premarital (prenuptial) agreements, marital agreements, open adoption, coparenting agreements

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Opportunistic Breach of Contract

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-10
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 May 2023
Francesco Parisi, Ariel Porat and Brian Bix
University of Minnesota - Law School, Tel Aviv University and University of Minnesota Law School
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disgorgement damages, opportunistic breach, efficient breach

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Indeterminacy and Good Faith: Politics and Legitimacy

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-29
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Sep 2016
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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legal reasoning, legal determinacy, attitudinal model

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Hans Kelsen and Choosing Legal Normativity

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-13
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jul 2023
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Hans Kelsen, Basic Norm, choice, divine command theory

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Reflections on Truth in Law

Cosmos + Taxis, vol. 8 (2020)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 Nov 2020
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Legal Truth, Will and Reason, Susan Haack, Connie Rosati, Legal Error, Universal Error

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Contract Law and the Common Good

9 William & Mary Business Law Review 373 (2018).
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 May 2018
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University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law, Nathan Oman, Morris Cohen, Contract Theory

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Obligations from Artifacts

Luka Burazin, Kenneth Einar Himma & Corrado Roversi (eds.), Law as an Artifact (Oxford, 2018) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Sep 2017
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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artifact, David Hume, is-ought, Hans Kelsen, legal positivism, Joseph Raz, Scott Shapiro, M.B.E. Smith

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Mahr Agreements: Contracting in the Shadow of Family Law (and Religious Law) - A Comment on Oman

Wake Forest Law Review Forum, 2011, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-15
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2011
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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premarital agreement, mahr, contract theory

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Protestant Interpretation, Conventions, and Legal Truth

Thomas Bustamante & Thiago Lopes Decat (eds.), Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J. Postema (Hart Publishing, 2020)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Gerald Postema, Ronald Dworkin, Sanford Levinson, legal truth, "protestant" and "catholic" interpetation

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Commodified Promises and Contract Theory

71 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 1 (2018)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 25 Feb 2018
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Contract Law, Contract Theory, Commodification

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Agreements in American Family Law

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Agreements in American Family Law

4 Iɴᴛ’ʟ. J. Jᴜʀɪs. Fᴀᴍ. 115 (2013).
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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Agreements in American Family Law

International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family (2014, Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-12
Posted: 11 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2014
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School

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Family Law, agreements, premarital agreements, marital agreements, open adoption, co-parenting agreements, private ordering, status

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COVID Concerns: Some Realism About Equitable Relief

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2022 , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-12
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Jun 2023
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
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contract law, equitable relief, impracticability, frustration of purpose, legal realism

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Contract Law: Rules, Theory, and Context

B. Bix, Contract Law: Rules, Theory, and Context, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Posted: 23 Sep 2012
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School

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Global Error and Legal Truth

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 535-547, 2009
Posted: 31 Aug 2009
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School

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A Dictionary of Legal Theory

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Posted: 07 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2008
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School

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legal theory, legal philosophy, jurisprudence, law and economics

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