Stewart J. Schwab

Cornell Law School

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Ithaca, NY 14853

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1.

An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employment Contracts: What Do Top Executives Bargain For?

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 63, p. 231, 2005, Cornell Law School Research Paper No. 04-024 , Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-12
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2014
Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Cornell Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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CEO, Employment Contracts

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The Employment Contract

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The Employment Contract

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Apr 2000
Ian Ayres and Stewart J. Schwab
Yale University - Yale Law School and Cornell Law School
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The Employment Contract

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2000
Ian Ayres and Stewart J. Schwab
Yale University - Yale Law School and Cornell Law School
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Employment Discrimination

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Employment Discrimination

Cornell Law School Working Paper No. 5530
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 May 1999
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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Employment Discrimination

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2000): 1
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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employment discrimination laws, labor markets, litigation, discrimination, segregation, statistical discrimination, status-production model

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How Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Fare in Federal Court

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 1, p. 429, 2004, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-007
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Jun 2004
Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

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The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Nov 2002
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue and Stewart J. Schwab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
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Employment Protection, Wrongful Discharge, Unjust Dismissal, Employment at Will, Labor Law, Instrumental Variables

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

NBER Working Paper No. w9425
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue and Stewart J. Schwab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
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Megafirms

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Megafirms

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 03 May 2001
Randall S. Thomas, Randall S. Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab and Robert G. Hansen
Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Cornell Law School and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
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Megafirms

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 80, 2001-2002, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2707322, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 24 Dec 2015
Randall S. Thomas, Randall S. Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab and Robert G. Hansen
Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Cornell Law School and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
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firms, law, acccounting, investment banking, regulation, Multidisciplinary Practice, industry, securities litigation

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Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?

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Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. II, 2008, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-022
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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empirical, employment discrimination, civil procedure

Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2009, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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federal court, employment discrimination, litigation, plaintiff

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Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven & Zeisel's the American Jury

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Sep 2004
Theodore Eisenberg, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions

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Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, p. 1018, February 1998, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper , Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 22 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2011
Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Cornell Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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Labor Unions, corporate, governance, shareholder,

Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, 1998, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-02
Posted: 20 Jul 1998
Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Cornell Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management

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Politics and the Judiciary: The Influence of Judicial Background on Case Outcomes

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1995, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Orley Ashenfelter, Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell Law School
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Politics, Judiciary, judicial background

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Property Rules and Liability Rules: The Cathedral in Another Light

New York University Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 2, 1995, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab and James E. Krier
Cornell Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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transaction costs, double reverse twist, economics, liability rules, property rules

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Affirmative Action in Higher Education Over the Next Twenty-Five Years: A Need for Study and Action

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-4
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2019
Sandra Day O'Connor and Stewart J. Schwab
United States Supreme Court and Cornell Law School
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Affirmative Action, skin color, race, university, policy, minorities, Baake, Supreme Court, constitution, higher education

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How Employment-Discrimination Plaintiffs Fare in the Federal Courts of Appeals

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2003, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell Law School
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employment discrimination, federal courts of appeals, trial, appellate, litigation, plaintiffs

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Splitting Logs: An Empirical Perspective On Employment Discrimination Settlements

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab and Michael Heise
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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employment discrimination, U.S. District Court, settlements

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Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's the American Jury

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2.1 (2005): 171
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Theodore Eisenberg, Paula Hannaford Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Waters, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Criminal Cases, judge-jury agreement, juries, judges, adjucator

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What Shapes Perceptions of the Federal Court System?

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1989, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased) and Cornell Law School
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civil rights, discrimination, torts, constitutional law, litigation

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A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1988, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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contracts, property law, real estate, property rights

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Coase's Twin Towers: The Relation between the Nature of the Firm and the Problem of Social Cost

Journal of Corporation Law 18.2 (1993): 359
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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social costs, transaction cost, markets, law and economics

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Coase, Rents, and Opportunity Costs

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, 1991, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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Coase, rents, opportunity costs, entitlement, accounting

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Predicting the Future of Employment Law: Reflecting or Refracting Market Forces?

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, 2001, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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employment law, labor market, capitalism

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The Cathedral at Twenty-Five: Citations and Impressions

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 106, No. 7, 1997, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
James E. Krier and Stewart J. Schwab
University of Michigan Law School and Cornell Law School
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property rules, liability rules

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The Union As Broker of Employment Rights

Schwab, Stewart J., "The Union as Broker of Employment Rights," in Cynthia L. Estlund & Michael L. Wachter, eds., Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law 248-72 (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Feb 2019
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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Labor unions, Employment rights

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Union Raids, Union Democracy, and the Market for Union Control

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2, 1992, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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corporate shareholder, corporate control, union control, market, union interests

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Limited-Domain Positivism as an Empirical Proposition

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 82, 1997, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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legal system, positivism

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The Unemployment Rate: Time to Give it a Rest?

Business Review (1977): 11
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab and John J. Seater
Cornell Law School and Economics Dept., Boston College
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Unemployment rate, economy

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The Diversity of Contingent Workers and the Need for Nuanced Policy

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 1995, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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work force, temporary, part-time, self employed, business services, economy, contingent workers, policy, diversity

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Studying Labor Law and Human Resources in Rhode Island

Roger Williams University Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School
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labor law, human resources, legal education credits, lawyers, bureaucracy, human relations