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Russell B. Korobkin

UCLA School of Law

Richard C. Maxwell Professor

385 Charles E. Young Dr. East

Room 1242

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

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1.

Law and Behavioral Science: Removing the Rationality Assumption from Law and Economics

California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2000, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. 00-01
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 15 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2009
Russell B. Korobkin and Thomas S. Ulen
UCLA School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
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A 'Traditional' and 'Behavioral' Law-and-Economics Analysis of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company

University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 26, p. 441, 2004, UCLA School of Law, Law & Econ. Research Paper No. 03-24
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Dec 2003
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Bounded Rationality, Standard Form Contracts, and Unconscionability

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 1203, 2003
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 18 Dec 2003
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, contracts, unconscionability, bounded rationality

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Heuristics and Biases at the Bargaining Table

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 87, p. 795-808, 2004, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-11, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 04/5
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Mar 2004
Russell B. Korobkin and Chris Guthrie
UCLA School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Heuristics, Negotiation

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The Status Quo Bias and Contract Default Rules

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 83, 1998, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Mar 1998
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Psychological Impediments to Mediation Success: Theory and Practice

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 21, pp. 281-238, 2006, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-9
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Mar 2005
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Mediation, Negotiation, Psychology

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The Endowment Effect and Legal Analysis

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 97, pp. 1227-1291, 2003, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 02-19
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Sep 2002
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Endowment effect, status quo bias, behavioral law and economics, Coase Theorem

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A Positive Theory of Legal Negotiation

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 88, 2000
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Apr 2000
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Stem Cell Research and the Law

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 28 Jan 2006
Russell B. Korobkin and Stephen R. Munzer
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Stem Cells, Patent Law, Human Subjects, Tissue Ownership, Cloning, Chimeras, Informed Consent, Common Rule, Scientific Research

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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Legal Scholarship: Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Evolutionary Psychology

Jurimetrics, Vol. 41, Spring 2001, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 01-5
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 May 2001 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?

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Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 04 Jul 2007
Russell B. Korobkin and Joseph W. Doherty
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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negotiation, settlement, bargaining, experimental

Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 162-208, 2009
Posted: 25 Aug 2009
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law

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The Problems with Heuristics for Law

UCLA School of Law, Law & Econ Research Paper No. 4-1
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Feb 2004
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Heuristics, Bounded Rationality, Behavioral Law and Economics

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The Battle Over Self-Insured Health Plans, or 'One Good Loophole Deserves Another'

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 1, pp. 89-136, 2005, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 04-2
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Feb 2004
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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ERISA, Managed Care, Health Insurance

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The Law of Bargaining

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 87, pp. 839-45, 2004 , UCLA School of Law, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 04-3
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 23 Mar 2004
Russell B. Korobkin, Michael L. Moffitt and Nancy Welsh
UCLA School of Law, University of Oregon - School of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
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Roadblocks to the Roadmap: A Negotiation Theory Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict after Yasser Arafat

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 30, pp. 1-80, 2005, UCLA School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-4
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 09 Mar 2004
Russell B. Korobkin and Jonathan Zasloff
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Middle East, Israel, Palestine, negotiation, mediation

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The Role of Law in Settlement

THE HANDBOOK OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION, pp. 254-276, Michael L. Moffit & Robert C. Bordone, eds., Jossey-Bass, 2005, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 04-17
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Oct 2004
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Settlement, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation, Misrepresentation, Nondisclosure, Duress, Fee Shifiting, Offer-of-Settlement, Federal Rule of Evidence 408

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Bargaining Power as Threat of Impasse

UCLA School of Law, Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-6
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Mar 2004
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Possibility and Plausibility in Law and Economics

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 32, 781-95, 2005, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 04-15
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Oct 2004
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Behavioral Law and Economics, Bounded Rationality, Rational Choice Theory, Standard Form Contracts

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Empirical Scholarship in Contract Law: Possibilities and Pitfalls

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2002, pp. 1033-1066, 2002, UCLA, School of Law Research Paper No. 01-22
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Nov 2001
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Libertarian Welfarism

California Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 6, 2009, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 09-09
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2010
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, libertarian paternalism, asymmetric paternalism

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Buying and Selling Human Tissues for Stem Cell Research

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 45, 2007, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 07-13
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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stem cells, egg donation, embryos, coercion, commodification, altruism, organ donation, biomedical research

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Determining Health Care Rights from Behind a Veil of Ignorance

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Determining Health Care Rights from Behind a Veil of Ignorance

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 1998, pp. 801-36, 1998 , UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 May 1998
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Determining Health Care Rights from Behind a Veil of Ignorance

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 1998, No. 3, 1998
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law

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Determining Health Care Rights from Behind a Veil of Ignorance

University of Illinois Law Review Journal (August 1998)
Posted: 25 May 1998
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law

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Autonomy and Informed Consent in Biomedical Research

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 54, p. 605, 2007, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 07-11
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Mar 2007
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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informed consent, stem cells, embryos, tissue banks, common rule

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Relative Value Health Insurance: The Behavioral Law and Economics Solution to the Health Care Cost Crisis

Michigan Law Review (2013), Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 12-06
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2013
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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moral hazard, bounded rationality, health insurance, consumer directed health care, behavioral law and economics

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Efficiency and Equity: What Can Be Gained by Combining Coase and Rawls?

Washington Law Review, Vol. 73, June 1998, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Apr 1998
Russell B. Korobkin and Thomas S. Ulen
UCLA School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
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Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer

Texas Law Review, Vol. 76, 1997, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 1997
Russell B. Korobkin and Chris Guthrie
UCLA School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Stem Cell Research and the Cloning Wars

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 18, p. 161, 2007, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 07-12
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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stem cells, cloning, somatic cell nuclear transfer, federalism, substantive due process

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What Comes After Victory for Behavioral Law and Economics?

UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 11-10
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, heuristics, bounded rationality, preference construction, libertarian paternalism

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The Failed Jurisprudence of Managed Care, and How to Fix it: Reinterpreting Erisa Preemption

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 51, p. 457, 2003
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 18 Dec 2003
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Health Care Law, Managed Care, ERISA, Patient's Bill of Rights, Pegram v. Herdrich, Rush Prudential HMO v. Moran

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Recent Developments in the 'Stem Cell Century': Implications for Embryo Research, Egg Donor Compensation, and Stem Cell Patents

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 08-21
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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stem cells, cloning, patents, embryos, egg donation, patents, nonobviousness, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Public Patent Foundation, Stemagen

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Inertia and Preference in Contract Negotiation: The Psychological Power of Default Rules and Form Terms

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 51, p. 1583, 1998, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Sep 1998
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Wrestling with the Endowment Effect, or How to Do Law and Economics Without the Coase Theorem

in The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law (edited by Eyal Zamir and Doron Teichman, Oxford University Press, 2014)., UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 13-10
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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endowment effect, status quo bias, coase theorem, behavioral law and economics

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Aspirations and Settlement

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 80, pp. 1-61, 2002, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 02-9
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 May 2002
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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The Borat Problem: Fraud, Assent, and the Behavioral Law and Economics of Standard Form Contracts

California Law Review, Vol. 101, February 2013, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 11-07
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 28 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2012
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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contract interpretation, fraud, bargaining, negotiation, standard form contracts, boilerplate, contracts of adhesion

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Harnessing the Positive Power of Rankings: A Response to Posner and Sunstein

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 81, pp. 35-45, 2006, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-17
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Aug 2005
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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Law school rankings

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Embryonic Histrionics: A Critical Evaluation of the Bush Stem Cell Funding Policy and the Congressional Alternative

Jurimetrics Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2006 , UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 07-10
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Mar 2007
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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embryos, stem cells, biomedical research, law and science

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The Efficiency of Managed Care Patient Protection Laws: Incomplete Contracts, Bounded Rationality, and Market Failure

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 85, November 1999, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Apr 1999
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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The 'Borat' Problem in Contract Law: Fraud, Assent, and Standard Forms

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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In Praise of Law School Rankings: Solutions to Coordination and Collective Action Problems

Texas Law Review, Vol. 77, 1998, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Nov 1998
Russell B. Korobkin
UCLA School of Law
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"Efficiency and Equity: What Can Be Gained by Combining Coase and Rawls?"

Posted: 26 Apr 1998
Russell B. Korobkin and Thomas S. Ulen
UCLA School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law

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Bargaining with the CEO: The Case for 'Negotiate First, Choose Second'

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2017
Russell B. Korobkin and Michael B. Dorff
UCLA School of Law and Southwestern University School of Law
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negotiation, executive compensation, employment