Emily Kadens

Northwestern University School of Law

Professor of Law

600 North Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60601

United States

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The Myth of the Customary Law Merchant

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, 2012
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Apr 2012
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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The Pitkin Affair: A Study of Fraud in Early English Bankruptcy

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 84, p. 483, 2010
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 05 Jan 2011
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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Justice Blackstone's Common Law Orthodoxy

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 103, 2009
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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legal history, Blackstone, jurisprudence

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The Last Bankrupt Hanged: Balancing Incentives in the Development of Bankruptcy Law

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 7, April 2010
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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capital punishment, bankruptcy, legal history

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Cheating Pays

119 Columbia Law Review 527 (2019), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-12
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2019
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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The Medieval Law Merchant: The Tyranny of a Construct

7 Journal of Legal Analysis 251 (2015), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-06
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 May 2016 Last Revised: 22 May 2016
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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Introduction: Lessons from the History of Custom

Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 28 Jan 2014
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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custom, legal history

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Pre-Modern Credit Networks and the Limits of Reputation

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, 2015, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-19
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Aug 2015
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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The Dark Side of Reputation

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2019
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Jul 2019
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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Reputation, fraud, bankruptcy, England, legal history, private ordering, commercial law, law & economics

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Custom's Two Bodies

Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, edited by Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester (Brill 2013)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 28 Jan 2014
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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custom, legal history

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The Puzzle of Judicial Education: The Case of Chief Justice William De Grey

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, p. 143, 2009
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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legal history, judicial education, jurisprudence

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Custom's Past

Curtis A. Bradley, ed., Custom’s Future: International Law in a Changing World (Cambridge 2016), 11-33, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-05
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 May 2016
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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The Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Court of Requests

In John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, Anna di Robilant, eds., Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue 349 (Robbins Collection 2016)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Dec 2016
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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Convergence and the Colonization of Custom in Pre-modern Europe

Emily Kadens, Convergence and the Colonization of Custom in Pre-modern Europe, in COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY 167 (Olivier Moreteau & Kjell Modeer, eds., 2019).
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Apr 2019
Emily Kadens
Northwestern University School of Law
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law, custom, Roman law