Bruce Chapman

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

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1.

Rational Choice and Categorical Reason

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, pp. 1169-1210, 2003
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Jul 2002
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Book Review: The Economic Structure of Corporate Law by Frank H. Easterbrook and Daniel R. Fischel

Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 23, p. 145, 1994
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Rational Commitment and Legal Reason

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 91, 2005, U Toronto, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 03-02
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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practical rationality, reasons, rational choice, commitment, backward induction, centipede game, defeasibility, rules, legal reasoning, normative requirements

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Limited Auditors' Liability: Economic Analysis and the Theory of Tort Law

Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 20, p. 180, 1992
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Common Knowledge, Communication, and Public Reason

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 1151, 2004
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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game theory, coordination, cooperation, communication, common knowledge of rationality, cheap talk, signaling, reasonableness, public reason, rational commitment, rational interaction

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Punitive Damages: Divergence in Search of a Rationale

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 741, 1989
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Jul 2008
Bruce Chapman and Michael J. Trebilcock
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Punitive Damages as Aggravated Damages: The Case of Contract

Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 16, pp. 269-280, 1990
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Corporate Tort Liability and the Problem of Overcompliance

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 1679, 1996
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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The Rational and the Reasonable: Social Choice Theory and Adjudication

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 61, p. 41, 1994
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Law, Incommensurability, and Conceptually Sequenced Argument

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 146, p. 1487, 1998
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Leading You Down the Choice Path: Rational Persuasion as Collective Rationality

Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 35, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jun 2010
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Individual Rights and Collective Rationality: Some Implications for Economic Analysis of Law

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 455, 1982
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Jul 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Legal Analysis of Economics: Solving the Problem of Rational Commitment

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 May 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Pluralism in Tort and Accident Law: Toward a Reasonable Accommodation

PHILOSOPHY AND THE LAW OF TORTS, G. Postema, ed., p. 276, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Rational Aggregation

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 337-54, 2002
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Social choice, judgement, Condorcet jury theorem, collective rationality, public reason

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Law Games: Defeasible Rules and Revisable Rationality

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 17, 1998
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Efficiency, Liberty and Equality: Three Ethical Justifications for Regulatory Reform

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 20, p. 512, 1982
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Jul 2008
Bruce Chapman and John Quinn
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Making Hard Social Choices: Lessons from the Auto Accident Compensation Debate

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1992
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Jul 2008
Bruce Chapman and Michael J. Trebilcock
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Rational Choice and Reasonable Interactions

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 May 2008 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Developments in Tort Law: The 1993-94 Term

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 487, 1995
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Corporate Stakeholders, Choice Procedures and Committees

Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 26, p. 211, 1996
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 30 Jun 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Individual Rights, Good Consequences, and the Theory of Social Choice

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 12, p. 317, 1982
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Jul 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Between Markets and Politics: A Social Choice Theoretic Appreciation of the Charitable Sector

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 6, p. 821, 1998
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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More Easily Done than Said: Rules, Reasons, and Rational Social Choice

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol.18. pg. 293, 1998
Posted: 24 Feb 1997
Bruce Chapman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

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