Jason Scott Johnston

University of Virginia School of Law

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1.

Global Warming Advocacy Science: A Cross Examination

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-08
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 22 May 2010
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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Climate change, greenhouse effect, ghg emission reductions, catastrophic risk, comparative scientific analysis, open scientific questions, size and direction of feedback effects, inherent non-linear temperature changes, methodological validity of climate models, gradual and reversible policy choices

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Signaling Social Responsibility: On the Law and Economics of Market Incentives for Corporate Environmental Performance

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 05-16
Number of pages: 127 Posted: 17 May 2005
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 1,582 (23,683)
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Environmental Regulation; Market Incentives; Environmental Performance; Corporate Social Responsbility; Transactions; Environmental Disclosure; Environmental Liability; Cheap Talk Games;

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Reforming State Consumer Protection Liability: An Economic Approach

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2010, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-02, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-29, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-47
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 27 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2009
Henry N. Butler and Jason Scott Johnston
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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consumer protection, advertising, class actions, punitive damages, overdeterence, attorneys fees, fraud, misrepresentation, no harm, reliance, information

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Climate Change Confusion and the Supreme Court: The Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1, 2008, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-04
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2013
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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climate change impacts, positive political theory, clean air act, law and economics

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The Law and Economics of Environmental Federalism: Europe and the United States Compared

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-07
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 03 May 2018
Michael G. Faure and Jason Scott Johnston
University of Maastricht - Faculty of Law, Metro and University of Virginia School of Law
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law and economics, environmental federalism, regulatory centralization, comparative law and economics

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The Law and Economics of Environmental Contracts

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 May 2000
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory of How Standard Form Contracts Enable Cooperative Negotiation between Businesses and Consumers

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, p. 857, 2006, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-08
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2009
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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standard form contracts, consumer screening, reputation, opportunism, renegotiation, consumer contracts, consumer complaints, return policies

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Tradable Pollution Permits and the Regulatory Game

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-04, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-07
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Feb 2006
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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environmental regulation, market based instruments, game theory, tradable pollution permits, emission markets

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Arbitration Study: A Summary and Critique

Mercatus Working Paper, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 15-07, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 15-25, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 24, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 51
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2015
Jason Scott Johnston and Todd J. Zywicki
University of Virginia School of Law and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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consumer financial regulation, arbitration, class action litigation, attorneys’ fees

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Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes

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Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes

University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Law and Economics Working Paper No. 263
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Aug 1999
Rachel T. A. Croson and Jason Scott Johnston
Michigan State University and University of Virginia School of Law
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Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes

Posted: 04 May 2000
Rachel T. A. Croson and Jason Scott Johnston
Michigan State University and University of Virginia School of Law

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Fashioning Entitlements: A Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of the Judicial Role in Environmental Centralization in the U.S. and Europe

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-06
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2009
Jason Scott Johnston and Michael G. Faure
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Maastricht - Faculty of Law, Metro
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environmental law and economics, courts, comparative law and economics, environmental federalism

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The False Federalism of EPA's Clean Power Plan

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 16, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 29
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 May 2015
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Promise and Limits of Voluntary Management-Based Regulatory Reform: An Analysis of Epa's Strategic Goals Program

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 05-17, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Apr 2005
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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Environmental Regulation, Economic Incentives, Voluntary Programs, Pollution Prevention

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High Cost, Little Compensation, No Harm to Deter: New Evidence on Class Actions Under Federal Consumer Protection Statutes

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-12, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 May 2016 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2016
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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Problems of Equity and Efficiency in the Design of International Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Schemes

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 33, pp. 405, 2009, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-28
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Aug 2009
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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International environmental law, climate change, pollution policy, greenhouse gases (GHG), emission permits and trading, binding caps, assumptions, tradeoff between efficiency and equity, income redistribution

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The Rule of Capture and the Economic Dynamics of Natural Resource Use and Survival Under Open Access Management Regimes

Environmental Law, Vol. 35, pp. 855-898, 2005, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-09
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Feb 2006
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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rule of capture, open access, pollution, natural resource harvest, fisheries policies, open space, bioeconomic dynamics

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A Looming Policy Disaster

Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall 2008, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-30, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-48
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 29 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2013
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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global warming, environment, regulation, climate change, climate, geenhouse gas, emissions, Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, temperature, carbon dioxide, Clean Air Act, air pollutants

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Beyond the Social Cost of Carbon: The Real Economic Lessons About the Determinants of Harm from Changing Climate and Their Implications for Climate Policy

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 61, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 25
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2015
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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Do Product Bans Help Consumers? Questioning the Economic Foundations of Dodd-Frank Mortgage Regulation

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 22
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Apr 2015
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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Dodd Frank mortgage regulation, consumer regulation, law and economics of product bans, consumer finance and the law, rational choice versus behavioral explanations of consumer behavior

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Environmental Permits: Public Property Rights and the Extraction and Redistribution of Private Value

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-19, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-10
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Apr 2021
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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environmental permits, regulation, regulatory cost, expropriation of private property

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Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-32, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2022-05
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 May 2022
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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renewable energy, electricity regulation, electric grid economics, climate

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A Positive Political Economic Theory of Environmental Federalization

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2014, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 21, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 9
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 Apr 2015
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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political economy, environmental federalism, environmental federalization, regulatory centralization, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, U.S. climate legislation

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The Precautionary Social Cost of Carbon

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-13, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2022-01
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Feb 2022
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law
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risk regulation, rationality, cost-benefit analysis

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The Tragedy of Centralization: The Political Economics of American Natural Resource Federalism

Posted: 28 May 2003
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law

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Natural resource regulation, Federalism, Endangered Species Act, Political Economy

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A Game Theoretic Analysis of Alternative Institutions for Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis

Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law

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Does Repeat Play Elicit Cooperation? Evidence from Federal Civil Litigation

Posted: 13 May 2002
Joel Waldfogel and Jason Scott Johnston
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and University of Virginia School of Law

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On the Commons and the Common Law

The Common Law and the Environment, Meiners and Morriss, eds., 1999
Posted: 10 Sep 1999
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law

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Rules and the Possibility of Social Cooperation

Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Frederick Schauer (Linda Meyer, ed.) 1999
Posted: 11 Aug 1999
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law

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Communication and Courtship: Cheap Talk Economics and the Law of Contract Formation

Posted: 10 Aug 1999
Jason Scott Johnston
University of Virginia School of Law

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