Michael A. Livermore

University of Virginia School of Law

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  • University of Virginia School of Law

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1.

A Quantitative Analysis of Writing Style on the U.S. Supreme Court

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 6, 2016, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 3
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2015
Keith Carlson, Michael A. Livermore and Daniel Rockmore
Dartmouth College, University of Virginia School of Law and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
Downloads 1,604 (10,076)

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writing style; U.S. Supreme Court; function words; judicial clerks

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Authority and Legitimacy in Global Governance: Deliberation, Institutional Differentiation, and the Codex Alimentarius

New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 766, 2006
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 May 2006
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 1,066 (19,036)
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World Trade Organization, WTO, GATT, SPS/TBT, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Technical Barriers to Trade, Appellate Body, Global Administrative Law, International Institutions, International Organizations, Trade, Food Safety, Food Regulation, Codex

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The Supreme Court and the Judicial Genre

59 Arizona Law Review 837 (2017), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2017
Michael A. Livermore, Allen Riddell and Daniel Rockmore
University of Virginia School of Law, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
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Supreme Court, topic models, legitimacy

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Regulatory Review, Capture, and Agency Inaction

Georgetown Law Journal, 2013, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-47, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-28
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2013
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 342 (84,828)
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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OIRA, cost-benefit analysis, capture, presidential power, administrative law, executive agencies, agency regulation, regulatory costs

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Environmental Law and Economics

Parisi, Francesco (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming) , Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2014-06
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2014
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Law and Economics; Regulated Industries and Administrative Law; Environmental Health and Safety Law; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; General; Government Policy

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Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards

New York University Law Review, Vol. 89, 2014 Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2013-07, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-58, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-30
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2014
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 243 (122,315)

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Law and Economics, Regulated Industries and Administrative Law, Environmental, Health and Safety Law, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Government Policy

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Computationally Assisted Regulatory Participation

93 Notre Dame Law Review 977 (2018), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-30
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 May 2017 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2018
Michael A. Livermore, Vladimir Eidelman and Brian Grom
University of Virginia School of Law, FiscalNote and FiscalNote
Downloads 231 (128,697)

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Rulemaking, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Administrative Law, Administrative Agencies, Public Participation

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Agency Independence

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2013-09
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 Sep 2013
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, regulatory review, OIRA, EPA, regulation, unitary executive

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Patience is an Economic Virtue: Real Options, Natural Resources, and Offshore Oil

84 University of Colorado Law Review 581 (2013)
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2013
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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real options, OCS, offshore oil, natural resources

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Interest Groups and Environmental Policy: Inconsistent Positions and Missed Opportunities

45 Environmental Law Review 1 (2015), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-67, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-40, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 5, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 16
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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The Meaning of Green Growth

Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-12
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2014
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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green growth, cost-benefit analysis, environmental regulation, better regulation, OIRA

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The Perils of Experimentation

126 Yale Law Journal 564 (2017), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-34
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 May 2016 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2018
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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Federalism, Environmental Law, Clean Power Plan

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Sociopolitical Feedbacks and Climate Change

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 21 Mar 2019
Peter Howard and Michael A. Livermore
New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity and University of Virginia School of Law
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climate change, social cost of carbon, environmental conflict

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Setting the Social Cost of Carbon

Forthcoming in ‘Climate Change Law’ (Edward Elgar 2017)(Daniel Farber & Marjan Peeters eds.), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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Law Search as Prediction

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-61
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Michael A. Livermore, Faraz Dadgostari, Mauricio Guim, Peter Beling and Daniel Rockmore
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Law School, University of Virginia, Dept. of System & Information Engineering and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
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search, artificial intelligence and law, machine learning, topic models, legal reasoning

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Reviving Environmental Protection: Preference-Directed Regulation and Regulatory Ossification

Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2007
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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environment, environmental law, regulation, ossification, political science, public choice, administrative law, preferences, voting behavior, deadlock, gridlock

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Bending the Law

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 01 May 2016
Greg Leibon, Michael A. Livermore, Reed Harder, Allen Riddell and Daniel Rockmore
Dartmouth College, University of Virginia School of Law, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
Downloads 111 (240,034)

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legal search, network analysis, topic modeling, citation networks, multinetworks, Markov chain, PageRank, curvature

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Can Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Policy Go Global?

New York University Environmental Law Journal, 2012
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Aug 2012
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 106 (248,057)

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cost-benefit analysis, environmental regulation, developing countries

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Political Parties and Presidential Oversight

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 67:1:45, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2015-31
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 23 May 2015 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2015
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 99 (259,946)

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administrative law, cost-benefit analysis, political parties, Chevron, arbitrary and capricious review, agencies, regulator review, party polarization, sixth party system

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Cause or Cure? Cost-Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Gridlock

NYU Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2008, Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Reform for the New Congress and Administration Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Mar 2009
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 94 (268,856)

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Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 86 (284,286)

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Administrative Law for an Era of Partisan Volatility

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Nov 2018
Michael A. Livermore and Daniel Richardson
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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partisan polarization, administrative law, Chevron deference, independent agencies

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Regional Variation, Holdouts, and Climate Treaty Negotiations

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2013
James Scott Holladay and Michael A. Livermore
University of Tennessee and University of Virginia School of Law
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Transboundry Pollution, Climate Change, International Climate Policy, Developing Countries

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Water Pollution and Regulatory Cooperation in China

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2012
Michael A. Livermore, Craig Wenner and Hong Lan
University of Virginia School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Renmin University of China
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environmental federalism, pollution control, Chinese environmental law

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Prevailing Academic View on Compliance Flexibility Under § 111 of the Clean Air Act

Resources for the Future Discussion Paper No. 11-29
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2014
Gregory Wannier, Jason A. Schwartz, Nathan D. Richardson, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Gerrard and Dallas Burtraw
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University School of Law, University of South Carolina - School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Columbia University - Law School and Resources for the Future
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source category, existing sources, state implementation plan, new sources, tradable performance standards

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Conversation, Representation, and Allocation: Justice Breyer's Active Liberty

New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, pp. 1505-1517, 2006
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Mar 2012
D. Theodore Rave and Michael A. Livermore
University of Houston Law Center and University of Virginia School of Law
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Pitfalls of Empirical Studies that Attempt to Understand the Factors Affecting Appellate Decisionmaking

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 8, 2009
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 26 Sep 2013
Harry T. Edwards and Michael A. Livermore
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 47 (387,911)
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Judicial decision making

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Centralizing Congressional Oversight

Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. XXXII, No. 261, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Feb 2018
Matthew Brooker and Michael A. Livermore
Kirkland & Ellis - Washington, D.C. Office and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 36 (428,868)

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politics, congress, congressional oversight

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Environmental Federalism in a Dark Time

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2018
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Denise Grab and Michael A. Livermore
New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 22 (496,120)

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federalism, environmental law, Trump, climate change

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Realist Lawyers and Realistic Legalists: A Brief Rebuttal to Judge Posner

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 59, 2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Sep 2013
Michael A. Livermore
University of Virginia School of Law
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Improve Economic Models of Climate Change

NATURE, Vol. 508 (2014)
Posted: 02 Jul 2018
Richard L. Revesz, Kenneth J. Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Peter Howard, Robert E. Kopp, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Oppenheimer and Thomas Sterner
New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway, University of Virginia School of Law, Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Göteborg University - Department of Economics

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Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

Richard Revesz, Michael Livermore, RETAKING RATIONALITY: HOW COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS CAN BETTER PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND OUR HEALTH, Oxford University Press, March 2008
Posted: 28 Mar 2008
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore
New York University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

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