Douglas A. Kysar

Yale University - Law School

Professor of Law

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

United States

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1.

Climate Change and the International Court of Justice

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 315
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 15 Aug 2013
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Some Realism About Environmental Skepticism: Bjorn Lomborg's 'the Skeptical Environmentalist'

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Oct 2002
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Environmental law, environmental science, cost-benefit analysis, risk regulation, climate change, global warming

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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation

New York University Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 632, 1999, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-54
Number of pages: 118 Posted: 24 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2008
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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law and economics, economics, economic behavioralism, behavioralism, law and behavioralism, manipulation, market manipulation, heuristic, biases, products liability

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What Climate Change Can Do About Tort Law

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 215, Environmental Law, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Climate Change, Tort Law, Public Nuisance, New Governance

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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1420, 1999, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-52
Number of pages: 149 Posted: 19 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2009
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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economic behavioralism, market manipulation, marketing, public relations, products liability, law and economics, tobacco industry, cigarette industry

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Sustainable Development and Private Global Governance

Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, 2005, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-016
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jun 2005
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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sustainable development, cost-benefit analysis, environment; trade, privatization, deregulation

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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: A Response to Market Manipulation

Number of pages: 139 Posted: 25 Apr 2001
Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Harvard Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Torts, Products Liability, Behavioral Law and Economics

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Biased Assimilation, Polarization, and Cultural Credibility: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions

Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-25
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Feb 2008
Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Geoffrey L. Cohen and Douglas A. Kysar
Yale Law School, Decision Research, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology and Yale University - Law School
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nanotechnology, cultural cognition, risk perception, cultural credibility heuristic, polarization, biased assimilation

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Climate Change and Consumption

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 38, 2008, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-47, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 08-27, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 365
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014
Douglas A. Kysar and Michael P. Vandenbergh
Yale University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Climate change, environmental law, consumer, consumption, individual behavior

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The Public Life of Private Law: Tort Law as a Risk Regulation Mechanism

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 607
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Tort; Risk Regulation; Climate Change: Courts

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Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?

HEURISTICS AND THE LAW, Christoph Engel & Gerd Gigerenzer, eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Aug 2005
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Heuristics, Bounded Rationality, Behavioral Law and Economics

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The Expectations of Consumers

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-020
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 10 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Prods and Pleas: Limited Government in an Era of Unlimited Harm

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 224, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, 2011
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2011
Benjamin Ewing and Douglas A. Kysar
Queen's University - Faculty of Law and Yale University - Law School
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climate change, torts, federal courts, common law, political question, standing, preemption

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Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism Seminar, E-Book Volumes 1-5, 2016

Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism Seminar, E-Book Volumes 1-5, 2016, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-56, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 566, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 590
Number of pages: 461 Posted: 05 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2017
Judith Resnik, Rosalie Abella, Marta Cartabia, Manuel Cepeda-Espinosa, Brenda Hale, Amy Kapczynski, Helen Keller, Harold Hongju Koh, Douglas A. Kysar, Douglas NeJaime, Robert Post, András Sajó, Reva Siegel, Patrick Weil and John Fabian Witt
Yale University - Law School, Supreme Court of Canada, Constitutional Court of Italy, Constitutional Court of Colombia, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Yale University - Law School, European Court of Human Rights, Yale Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale Law School, European Court of Human Rights, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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global, constitutionalism, constitutional law, jurisprudence, procedure, civil, criminal, international law, courts, judges, judicial review, rights, liberties, human rights, sentencing

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Law, Environment, and Vision

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, Winter 2003
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Preferences for Processes: The Process/Product Distinction and the Regulation of Consumer Choice

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-009
Number of pages: 118 Posted: 18 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Global Environmental Constitutionalism: Getting There from Here

Transnational Environmental Law, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 244
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2013
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Environmental constitutionalism, precautionary principle, cost-benefit analysis

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It Might Have Been: Risk, Precaution, and Opportunity Costs

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-023
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Sep 2006
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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precautionary principle, cost-benefit analysis, discounting, future generations, environmental law, risk regulation

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Medical Malpractice Myths and Realities: Why an Insurance Crisis is Not a Lawsuit Crisis

A Center for Progressive Reform White Paper No. 509, June 2005, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 79, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-027, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, p. 785, 2006
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
Thomas Owen McGarity, Douglas A. Kysar and Karen C. Sokol
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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Courting Disaster: Climate Change and the Adjudication of Catastrophe

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 10 May 2017
R. Henry Weaver and Douglas A. Kysar
Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
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Climate Change; Torts; Courts; Disaster; Catastrophe

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Climate Change, Cultural Transformation, and Comprehensive Rationality

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 May 2004
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Environmental law, environmental science, cost-benefit analysis, risk regulation, climate change, global warming

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Sustainability, Distribution, and the Macroeconomic Analysis of Law

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 25 May 2001
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Law, Environment, and the 'Non-Dismal' Social Sciences

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-01
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
William Boyd, Douglas A. Kysar and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
UCLA School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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Environmental law, law and psychology, science and technology studies, global governance, risk regulation

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Regulating from Nowhere: Domestic Environmental Law and the Nation-State Subject

Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Jun 2007
Douglas A. Kysar and Ya-Wei Li
Yale University - Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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environmental law, cost-benefit analysis, extraterritoriality, invasive species, transpacific air pollution

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Environmental Tribalism

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Douglas A. Kysar and James E. Salzman
Yale University - Law School and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
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Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Science, Technology & Innovation Paper No. 26, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 213, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 363
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009
James E. Salzman and Douglas A. Kysar
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Yale University - Law School
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Like a Nation State

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 6, 2008, Cornell Law School Research Paper No. 08-021
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 May 2008 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2008
Douglas A. Kysar and Bernadette Meyler
Yale University - Law School and Stanford Law School
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environment, greenhouse gas emissions, federalism, executive power, commerce clause, foreign affairs power

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Did Nepa Drown New Orleans? The Levees, the Blame Game, and the Hazards of Hindsight

Duke Law Journal - 36th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, Vol. 56, 2006, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 106, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-024
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Sep 2006
Douglas A. Kysar and Thomas Owen McGarity
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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environmental law, risk regulation, disaster, hurricane, cost-benefit analysis, precautionary principle, risk assessment, risk management

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Courts, Climate Change, and the Global Pact for the Environment

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Dec 2020
Daniel C. Esty, Laurent Fabius and Douglas A. Kysar
Yale Law School, Conseil Constitutionnel and Yale University - Law School
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global, constitutionalism, constitutional law, jurisprudence, environment, climate change

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Kids & Cul-De-Sacs: Census 2000 and the Reproduction of Consumer Culture

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Aug 2001
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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The Consultants' Republic: A Review of Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger's 'Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility'

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 121, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Discounting, on Stilts

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 74, 2006-2007, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-021
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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Discounting, Intergenerational Equity, Intergenerational Justice, Environmental Law, Risk Regulation, Cost-benefit Analysis, Welfare Economics

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Regulating Through Recourse: Rediscovering Tort As Regulation

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 07 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2019
Douglas A. Kysar and Conor Dwyer Reynolds
Yale University - Law School and Yale Law School
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tort, risk regulation, environmental law, discovery, empowerment, community, settlement, courts

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Politics by Other Meanings: A Comment on 'Retaking Rationality Two Years Later'

Houston Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, p. 43, 2010, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 423, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 227
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2011
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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cost-benefit analysis, regulatory oversight, OMB, OIRA, behavioral economics

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Uncommon Law: Judging in the Anthropocene

Jolene Lin & Douglas A. Kysar (eds.), CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (Cambridge University Press 2020), U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-33
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2020
Joshua Galperin and Douglas A. Kysar
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and Yale University - Law School
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Environmental Law, Climate Change, Common Law, Litigation, Judges, Courts, Nuisance, Property, Negligence, Trespass, Anthropocene, Judging, Legislation, Regulation, Administrative Law, Global Warming, Adjudication

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Ecologic: Nanotechnology, Environmental Assurance Bonding, and Symmetric Humility

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 198, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 391
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014
Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University - Law School
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cost-benefit analysis, precautionary principle, risk regulation, nanotechnology, assurance bond

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Living with Owning: Property, Community, and the Zanesville, Ohio Animal Release

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 92, 2016, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 585
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Oct 2016
Matt Ampleman and Douglas A. Kysar
Yale University, Law School, Students and Yale University - Law School
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property, community, stewardship, animals, personhood

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Amicus Brief of Economists Ackerman et al. in Entergy v. Riverkeepers

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2009
Douglas A. Kysar and David M. Driesen
Yale University - Law School and Syracuse University College of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, BAT, technology-based standards, water pollution, supreme court, feasibility

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Fragile Futures and Resiliency: Litigating Climate Change, Judging Under Stress, 2019 Volume of Yale's Global Constitutionalism Seminar, a Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights

Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism, 2019, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 196 Posted: 28 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2020
Daniel C. Esty, Douglas A. Kysar, Manuel Cepeda-Espinosa, Laurent Fabius, Laurent Neyret, Kim Lane Scheppele, Judith Resnik, Marta Cartabia, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Clare Ryan
Yale Law School, Yale University - Law School, Constitutional Court of Colombia, Conseil Constitutionnel, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Yale University - Law School, Constitutional Court of Italy, University of San Andres (UMSA) and University of Alabama School of Law
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Foreword: Making Sense of Information for Environmental Protection

Texas Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 7, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Aug 2014
Douglas A. Kysar and James E. Salzman
Yale University - Law School and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
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Law, Environment, and the 'Nondismal' Social Sciences

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 8, pp. 183-211, 2012
Posted: 31 Oct 2012
William Boyd, Douglas A. Kysar and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
UCLA School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Cornell Law School

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