Peter H. Huang

University of Colorado Law School

Professor

Colorado Law

401 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

United States

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1.

Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs of an Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education and Parenting

1 British Journal of American Legal Studies 297 (2012)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2012
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Tiger Parenting, Legal Education, Judgment and Decision Making, Emotions, Values

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Unsafe at Any Campus: Don’t Let Colleges Become the Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, and Food Processing Plants

96 Indiana Law Journal Supplement 25-65 (2020), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-16, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-30
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 May 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2020
Peter H. Huang and Debra S. Austin
University of Colorado Law School and University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Downloads 1,638 (12,045)
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COVID-19, Legal Education, Higher Education, Remote Learning, Online Pedagogy

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The Law and Economics of Consumer Privacy Versus Data Mining

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jun 1998
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Derivatives on TV: A Tale of Two Derivatives Debacles in Prime-Time

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Feb 2001
Peter H. Huang, Frank Partnoy and Kimberly D. Krawiec
University of Colorado Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Authentic Happiness and Meaning at Law Firms

58 Syracuse Law Review 335 (2008)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang and Rick Swedloff
University of Colorado Law School and Rutgers Law School
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authentic happiness, positive psychology, subjective well-being, signature strengths, meaning, law firm associates, quality of life

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Put More Women in Charge and Other Leadership Lessons from COVID-19

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-21, 15(3) Florida International University Law Review (2021)
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 01 Oct 2020
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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COVID-19, thoughtful leadership, exemplary female leaders, crisis leadership, partisan leadership, leadership communications, politics of kindness, congressive leadership

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Pandemic Emotions: The Good, the Bad, and the Unconscious — Implications for Public Health, Financial Economics, Law, and Leadership

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-14, Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2021
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 15 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2021
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Pandemic emotions, racism, cognitive economics, information avoidance, monthly pandemic financial assistance, gentle enforcement, mindfulness, information acquisition, psychological games of leadership

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The Unexpected Value of Litigation

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 1267, 2006, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-03, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 292, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-18
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Joseph Grundfest and Peter H. Huang
Stanford University Law School and University of Colorado Law School
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litigation, real options, settlement, game-theoretic bargaining model

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A Normative Analysis of New Financially Engineered Derivatives

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Mar 2000
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 630 (48,177)
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Can Practicing Mindfulness Improve Lawyer Decision-Making, Ethics, and Leadership?

Houston Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, 63-154 (2017), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-15
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 31 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Mindfulness, Decision-Making, Legal Education, Legal Ethics, Leadership, Real Options

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Adventures in Higher Education, Happiness, and Mindfulness

7(2) British Journal of American Legal Studies 425-84 (2018), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-12
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 May 2019
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Higher Education, Happiness, Mindfulness, Well-Being, Legal Education

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How Improving Decision-Making and Mindfulness Can Improve Legal Ethics and Professionalism

21 Journal of Law, Business and Ethics 35-76 (2015)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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cognitive repairs, improving decision-making, legal ethics, mindfulness, professionalism, real options

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Empowering People to Choose Wisely by Democratizing Mindfulness and Thinking Tools

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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empowering people, choosing wisely, improving decision-making, mindfulness, thinking tools, real options, thinking architecture, thinking technologies

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The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse

42 Pepperdine Law Review 727-72 (2015)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2015
Peter H. Huang and Corie Lynn Rosen
University of Colorado Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Law, psychology, positive psychology, attribution style, mindfulness, strengths theory, decision-making, depression, ethics, choice, errors, zombies, apocalypse, walking dead

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Emotional Impact Analysis in Financial Regulation: Going Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis

Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-21, Institute for Advanced Study Social Science Economics Working Paper No. 62
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Affect, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Emotions, Process Concerns, Securities Regulation

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A Psychology of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion and Saving Face in Legal Theory and Practice

90 Minnesota Law Review 1045 (2006), Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 06-010
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang and Christopher J. Anderson
University of Colorado Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Positive Emotions, Law, Disgust, Shame, Psychology

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Happiness Studies and Legal Policy

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Happiness Studies and Legal Policy

6 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 405 (2010)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 May 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Positive Affect, Life Judgments, Satisfaction, Subjective Well-Being, Parentalism

Happiness Studies and Legal Policy

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 405-432, 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School

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Reasons within Passions: Emotions and Intentions in Property Rights Bargaining

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Sep 2000
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Regulating Securities Professionals: Emotional and Moral Aspects of Fiduciary Investing

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jul 2001
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Regulating Irrational Exuberance and Anxiety in Securities Markets

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Dec 2003
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Anxiety, irrational exuberance, mandatory disclosures, securities regulation

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Emotional Reactions to Law & Economics, Market Metaphors, & Rationality Rhetoric

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, Mark D. White, ed., 2009, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-69
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 May 2008
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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emotions, cultural cognition, law & economics, markets, rationality

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Meta-Mindfulness: A New Hope

19 Richmond Journal of Law and Public Interest 303-24 (2016)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 May 2016 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2016
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Mindfulness, Middle Way, Meta-Mindfiulness, Professional Transformation, Hope

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From Tiger Mom to Panda Parent

17 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 40 (2012)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Apr 2013
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Tiger Parenting, Asian stereotyping, model minority myth, learning, identity priming

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Book Review of Leo Katz Why the Law Is So Perverse

63 Journal of Legal Education 131-60 (2013)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2013
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Social choice, multi-criteria decision-making, Arrow's impossibility theorem, loopholes, agenda manipulation, legal ethics and professionalism, voting cycles

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Legal Implications of Guilt and Pride for Securities Regulation

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jun 2002
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Teaching (About) Mindfulness: A Tale of Two Courses

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 May 2016 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2016
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Teaching, Legal Ethics, Professionalism, Real Options

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Tort Damages and the New Science of Happiness

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 85, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-23
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2009
Rick Swedloff and Peter H. Huang
Rutgers Law School and University of Colorado Law School
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Happiness, Affective Forecasting, Emotional Harms, Hedonic Adaptation, Juries, Non-pecuniary Damages, Torts

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Moody Investing and the Supreme Court: Rethinking the Materiality of Information and the Reasonableness of Investors

13 Supreme Court Economic Review 99-131 (2005)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Moody Investing, materiality, reasonable investor, securities regulation, puffery, total mix of information, bespeaks caution doctrine

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Authentic Happiness, Self-Knowledge and Legal Policy

9 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 755 (2008)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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authentic happiness, positive psychology, subjective well-being, signature strengths, self-concordance, legal policy

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Positive Institutions: Organizations, Laws, and Policies

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 261 (135,646)
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Positive Institutions, Positive Law Firms, Positive Law Schools, Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Social Architecture, Policy Subjective Well-Being Measures, Positive Parentonomics, Mindfulness, Thinking Architecture, Learning Architecture, Thinking Games

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A New Options Theory of Public Interest Lawsuits and Options-Based Risk Multipliers

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 06 Jun 1998
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Happiness 101 for Legal Scholars: Applying Happiness Research to Legal Policy, Ethics, Mindfulness, Negotiations, Legal Education, and Legal Practice

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics, 271-93 (Joshua C. Teitelbaum & Kathryn Zeiler eds., 2018)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2018
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Happiness, Legal Policy, Mindfulness, Behavioral Economics, Negotiations, Legal Education, Legal Practice

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Business Law & Popular Culture

LAW & POPULAR CULTURE: TEXT, NOTES, & QUESTIONS, LexisNexis, 2007, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-47
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2008
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Business Law, Popular Culture, Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Derivatives, Commensurability

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How Do Securities Laws Influence Affect, Happiness, & Trust?

3 Journal of Business and Technology Law 257 (2008)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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affect, happiness, trust, securities regulation, subjective well-being

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Anti-Asian (American) Racism, COVID-19, Humor, and DEI

28 Asian American Law Journal, Forthcoming, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-41
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 05 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2021
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Anti-Asian (American) Racism, COVID-19, Respectability Politics, Emotions, Humor, DEI, Empathy Through Personal Perspective Pivoting (ETPPP)

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How the New Economics Can Improve Discrimination Law, and How Economics Can Survive the Demise of the 'Rational Actor'

William & Mary Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-07, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-28
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2015
Scott A. Moss and Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School and University of Colorado Law School
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behavioral economics, positive psychology, happiness, damages, remedies, affirmative defenses, discrimination, harassment, diversity, employment, Faragher, Ellerth, Kolstad

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Happiness in Business or Law

12 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 153 (2011)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Empirical Happiness Research, Meaning, Workplace Well-Being, Marketing, Business Regulation, Law Student Happiness, Lawyer Happiness

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Lawsuit Abandonment Options in Possibly Frivolous Litigation Games

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 03 Dec 2003
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 238 (147,993)
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Civil procedure, litigation, game-theoretic model, real options

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Achieving American Retirement Prosperity by Changing Americans' Thinking About Retirement

22(2) Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 189-259 (2017)
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 18 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2018
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Retirement, Thinking Tools, Thinking Architecture, Thinking Technology, Cognitive Economics

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Herd Behavior in Designer Genes

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Institute for Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 264
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Moody Investing and the Supreme Court: Rethinking Materiality of Information and Reasonableness of Investors

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Dec 2003
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 199 (175,357)

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Moody Investing, Materiality, Reasonable Investor, Securities Regulation, Puffery, Total Mix of Information, Bespeaks Caution Doctrine

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Boost: Improving Mindfulness, Thinking, and Diversity

10(1) William & Mary Business Law Review 139-97 (2018), University of Colorado Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-8
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2019
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Boost, MIndfulness, Thinking Technologies, Nudge, Diversity

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The Unexpected Value of Litigation: A Real Options Perspective

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 1267, March 2006, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 06-006
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 11 Jul 2006
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 176 (195,636)

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Litigation

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Torn Between Two Selves: Should Law Care More About Experiencing Selves or Remembering Selves?

17(3) S.M.U. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 263-323 (2014)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Experiences, Memories, Health, Stress, Commuting, Obesity, Financial Planning

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Emotional Adaptation and Lawsuit Settlements

108 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 50 (2008)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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emotional adaptation, happiness, litigation, settlement, cultural cognition, meaning, identity, justice, ethics, vengeance

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Positive Law and Policy

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Shane J. Lopez, ed., 2008 , Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2007-41
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2008
Peter H. Huang and Jeremy A. Blumenthal
University of Colorado Law School and Syracuse University - College of Law
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positive psychology, subjective well-being, legal policy

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Back to the Present: Mental Time Travel-Induced Illusions about Financial, Ethical, and Tortious Behavior

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2014
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Temporal Illusions, Ethical Mirages, Affective Forecasting, Learning, Memory, Torts, Behavioral Time Machines, Mindfulness

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Can You Hear Me Later and Believe Me Now? Behavioral Law and Economics of Chronic Repeated Ambient Acoustic Pollution Causing Noise-Induced (Hidden) Hearing Loss

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-27, Forthcoming, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 20 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2020
Peter H. Huang and Kelly J. Poore
University of Colorado Law School and Pittsford Mendon High School, Students
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Noise-Induced (Hidden) Hearing Loss, Chronic Repeated Ambient Acoustic Pollution, Behavioral Law and Economics, Consciousness-Raising Role of Laws, Audism, Ableism, Attitudes, Attitude-Changing Role of Laws, Compassion, Empathy, Kindness, Loving Kindness Mindfulness Meditation

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Subjective Well-Being and the Law

Handbook of Well-Being (Ed Diener, Shige Oishi, & Louis Tay eds., 2018) Noba Scholar Handbook series: Subjective well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF publishers., U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-15
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 May 2019
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Subjective Well-Being, Law, Legal Scholarship, Law Professors, Legal Education, Law Practice

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Empowering People by Mindfulness and Thinking Boosts

2018 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Sep 2017
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School
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Empowering, Practicing Mindfulnes, Thinking Boosts, Thinking Architecture, Thinking Technologies

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Positive Institutions, Law, and Policy

HANDBOOK OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 2d ed., Shane J. Lopez, ed., Forthcoming , Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper
Posted: 12 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2008
Peter H. Huang and Jeremy A. Blumenthal
University of Colorado Law School and Syracuse University - College of Law

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International Environmental Law and Emotional Rational Choice

Posted: 06 Jun 2002
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School

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international environmental law, compliance, losing face, psychological games

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More Order Without More Law: A Theory of Social Norms and Organizational Cultures

Posted: 12 May 2000
Peter H. Huang and Ho-Mou Wu
University of Colorado Law School and National Taiwan University - Department of International Business

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A New Options Theory for Risk Multipliers of Attorney's Fees in Federal Civil Rights Litigation

New York University Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 6, December 1998
Posted: 04 Feb 1999
Peter H. Huang
University of Colorado Law School

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Real Options and the Economic Analysis of Litigation: A Preliminary Inquiry

Working Paper No. 131, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Stanford Law School
Posted: 13 Jun 1998
Joseph Grundfest and Peter H. Huang
Stanford University Law School and University of Colorado Law School

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