Lewis A. Kornhauser

New York University School of Law

Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012-1099

United States

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The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

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The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Nov 2004
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Vinay B. Nair and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University School of Law
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Executive Compensation, Governance, CEO

The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

NYU Working Paper No. CLB-06-005, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 32
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 31 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Vinay B. Nair and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University School of Law
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Doing Without the Concept of Law

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-33
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2015
Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law
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concept of law, eliminativism, Hart-Dworkin debate

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The Many as One: Integrity and Group Choice in Paradoxical Cases

U of Texas Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper No. 55
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Sep 2003
Lewis A. Kornhauser and Lawrence G. Sager
New York University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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deliberative democracy, integrity, paradoxical cases, political theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence

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Battle for Our Souls: A Psychological Justification for Corporate and Individual Liability for Organizational Misconduct

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 19 Jul 2022
Jennifer Arlen and Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Corporate Liability, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Norms, Expressive Law, Behavioral Law and Economics

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Decision Rules in a Judicial Hierarchy

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Dec 2004
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
Downloads 297 (164,787)
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N-Defendant Litigation and Settlement: The Impact of Joint and Several Liability

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-41
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2008
Lewis A. Kornhauser and Keith T. Takeda
New York University School of Law and Private Litigation Practice
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joint and several liability, settlement, litigation, tort, hazardous waste regulation

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Deciding Together

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-65, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-37
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2013
Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law
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collective decision making, judgment aggregation, appellate courts, juries, legislatures

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A Weaved Up Folly?: Preference, Well-Being and Morality in Social Decision

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Oct 2001
Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law
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Can the Law Change Preferences?

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Can the Law Change Preferences?

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-27, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-26
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Jul 2020
Jennifer Arlen and Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Can the Law Change Preferences?

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-46
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2020
Jennifer Arlen and Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Law as an Achievement of Governance

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-04
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2021
Lewis A. Kornhauser
New York University School of Law
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Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence, Concept of Law, Rule of Law

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Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Judicial Objectives, Opinion Content, Voting and Adjudication Equilibria

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-54, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-56
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2008
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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collegial courts, adjudiciation, judicial politics

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Only a Dictatorship is Efficient or Neutral

NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-01, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-06
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Jan 2007
Jean-Pierre Benoit and Lewis A. Kornhauser
London Business School - Department of Economics and New York University School of Law
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social choice, voting rules, separable preferences, candidate-based procedures

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Rational Choice Attitudinalism? A Review of Epstein, Landes and Posner's The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-15
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2015
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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courts, judicial politics, case space

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Contracts between Legal Persons

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Contracts between Legal Persons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5352
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Dec 2010
Lewis A. Kornhauser and W. Bentley MacLeod
New York University School of Law and Princeton University
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contract law, law and economics, contract breach, contract theory, incomplete contracts

Contracts between Legal Persons

NBER Working Paper No. w16049
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Lewis A. Kornhauser and W. Bentley MacLeod
New York University School of Law and Princeton University
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Chapter 2: What Courts Do . . . And How to Model It

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Jun 2017
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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adjudication, courts, CSE space

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Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Adjudication Equilibria

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-39, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-29
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2012
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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Chapter 3: What Do Judges Want? How to Model Judicial Preferences

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Jun 2017
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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adjudication, courts, judicial preferences, dispositional preferences, policy preferences

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Comparisons of the Incentive for Insolvency Under Different Legal Regimes

NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-10
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2006
Elizabeth Klee and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University School of Law
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Joint and several liability, insolvency, torts, hazardous waste regulation, law and economics

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Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Adjudication Equilibria (Revised)

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-52, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-34
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2012
Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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collegial courts

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Testing a Fine Is a Price in the Lab

International Review of Law and Economics 2020, Vol. 63 (C); NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 19-39
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 31 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
Lewis A. Kornhauser, Yijia Lu and Stephan Tontrup
New York University School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and New York University School of Law
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Policy and Disposition Coalitions on the Supreme Court of the United States

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2010
Deborah Beim, Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Yale University, Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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The Effects of Judically Imposed Restriction of Settlements to Compensatory Damages

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-10
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011
Lewis A. Kornhauser and Keith T. Takeda
New York University School of Law and Private Litigation Practice
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Settlement cap, joint and several liability, antitrust

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Stare Decisis and Judicial Log-Rolls: A Gains-from-Trade Model

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-24, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2983812
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Nov 2017
Charles M. Cameron, Lewis A. Kornhauser and Giri Parameswaran
Princeton University - Department of Political Science, New York University School of Law and Haverford College - Department of Economics
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Judge-Made Law, Endogenous Precedent, Stare Decisis, Gains from Trade

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Delegation Without Commitment: Soft Authority, Red Flags and the Reputational Motivations of Civil Servants

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-06-03
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2017
Scott Baker and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 72 (512,523)
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Delegation, Judicial Hierarchy, Judicial Reputation, Structure of Courts

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Discrete Rent-Seeking Games with an Application to Evidence Production

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 606
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2020
Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci and Lewis A. Kornhauser
University of Amsterdam and New York University School of Law
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Bargaining and Strategic Voting on Appellate Courts

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 19-19
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 13 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2019
Giri Parameswaran, Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Haverford College - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Political Science and New York University School of Law
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Bargaining, Judicial Politics, Super-Majority Rules, Strategic Voting, Appellate Courts

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A Theory of Claim Resolution

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-07-04
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2021
Scott Baker and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and New York University School of Law
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On the Separability of Assembly Preferences

Posted: 14 Jul 1999
Jean-Pierre Benoit and Lewis A. Kornhauser
London Business School - Department of Economics and New York University School of Law

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