Emily L. Sherwin

Cornell University - Law School

Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

United States

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Restitution and Equity: An Analysis of the Principle of Unjust Enrichment

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Oct 2001
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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A Comparative View of Standards of Proof

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 50, p. 243, 2002, U of San Diego Public Law Research Paper No. 32
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Oct 2001
Emily L. Sherwin and Kevin M. Clermont
Cornell University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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Precedent

U San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-14
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Sep 2004
Larry Alexander and Emily L. Sherwin
University of San Diego School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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legal precedent, judicial reasoning, rule-based precedent, legal decision making

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Demystifying Legal Reasoning: Part Ii

Demystifying Legal Reasoning, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-002
Number of pages: 195 Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Larry Alexander and Emily L. Sherwin
University of San Diego School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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Reparations and Unjust Enrichment

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Sep 2004
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts

Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-017, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-28
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2008
Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller and Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), New York University School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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Arbitration, Contracts, Consumer

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Legal Taxonomy

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-020
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Aug 2006
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Law and Philosophy at Odds

ON LAW AND PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICA, Francis J. Mootz, III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2008, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 May 2007
Larry Alexander and Emily L. Sherwin
University of San Diego School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
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Unjust Enrichment in Heartbreak Cases

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Sep 2004
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Introduction: The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law

Oxford University Press, 2020
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Dec 2020
Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily L. Sherwin and Henry E. Smith
Brooklyn Law School, Harvard Law School, Notre Dame Law School, Cornell University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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New Private Law

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Formal Elements of Contract and Fiduciary Law

Forthcoming in: Paul B. Miller & Andrew S. Gold, eds., Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-25
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2015
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Form, rules, contract, fiduciary, loyalty

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Unjust Enrichment and Creditors

Review of Litigation, 2008, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 May 2007
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Judges as Rulemakers

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-023
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Aug 2005
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Modern Equity

Philosophical Foundations of Equity (Dennis Klimchuk, Irit Samet, & Henry Smith, eds., Oxford University Press, 2019) Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-24
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Mar 2018
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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legal realism, equity, rules

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Three Reasons Why Even Good Property Rights Cause Moral Anxiety

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-001
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Equity and the Modern Mind

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-27
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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legal theory, common law, equity

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The Jurisprudence of Pleading: Rights, Rules, and Conley v. Gibson

Howard Law Journal, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-019
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2008
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Formalism and Realism in Private Law

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-03, Formalism and Realism, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C.P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily Sherwin, and Henry E. Smith, eds., Oxford University Press 2020)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jan 2021
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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private law, settlement, coordination, undesirable results, equity, enforcing rules, American Legal Realists, law/equity divide

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Mistake in Contract Law

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-01
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Jan 2023
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Mistake, Contracts, Legal Theory, Legal Realism, Contract Law, unilateral mistakes, legal relief, equitable relief, legal obligation, equitable enforcement, injunction

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Fiduciary Law and Equity: Enforcing Loyalty

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-21
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Mar 2018
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Equity, Trustees, Loyalty

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Do Precedents Constrain Legal Decision-Making?

Forthcoming in Timothy Endicott, Hafsteinn Kristjansson & Sebastian Lewis, eds. Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford University Press 2022/2023), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-14
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Apr 2022
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Precedent, Legal Reasoning, Judicial decision-making, authoritative rules, Analogical Intuitions

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The Importance of The Gap

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-28
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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legal theory, rules

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What Civil Remedies Do

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Oct 2013
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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jurisprudence, legal theory, private law, remedies

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Interpreting Tort Law

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-53
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Tort, Civil Recourse

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Exclusionary Rules

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-25
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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rules, exclusionary rules, rationality

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The Rationality of Promising

J.L. & Publ. Pol’y (Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-22
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2018
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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rules, rationality, contracts

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Why In Re Omegas Group Was Right: An Essay on the Legal Status of Equitable Remedies

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2012, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-54
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Constructive Trust, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment

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How to Govern Conduct

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 21-02, New Essays on the Nature of Legal Reasoning (Mark McBride & James Penner, eds., Hart Publishing) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Emily L. Sherwin and Larry Alexander
Cornell University - Law School and University of San Diego School of Law
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rule-governed decision-making, settlement, decision, decision-making power, unconstrained decision-making, moral decision-making, empirical decision-making

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Locke and Private Law

Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky, eds. 2021), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-04
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Jan 2021
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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John Locke, private law, private rights, natural rights, natural society, civil society, determinate rules, private actors, system of equity, judicial enforcement, Hobbesian role,

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General and Particular Jural Relations

THE LEGACY OF WESLEY HOHFELD: EDITED MAJOR WORKS, SELECT PERSONAL PAPERS, AND ORIGINAL COMMENTARIES (Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman, & Henry Smith eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018) (Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-23
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Apr 2018
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Hohfeld, rules, equity

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Restitution in the United States

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-02
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jan 2023
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Legal Theory, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, law restitution, American Restatements, Common Law World

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A Short History of the Restatement of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Jan 2023
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School
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Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, Restatement, Legal Theory, American Law Institute, Restatement projects, predominant rules, moral effort, political effort, legal relief

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Rules and Judicial Review

Posted: 15 Nov 2000
Emily L. Sherwin
Cornell University - Law School

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