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Adverse Possession of Identity: Radical Theory, Conventional Practice
(Oregon Law Review, 2005)
This Article examines the conditions under which acting as if one has a particular legal status is sufficient to secure that status in the eyes of the law. Legal determinations of common-law marriage, functional parenthood, ...
Order Without Social Norms
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2005)
This Article tackles a leading problem confronting norms theorists and regulators: how can the law induce changes in behavior when the material costs to the individual outweigh the benefits and there is no close-knit ...
Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
Payday Loans and Credit Cards
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009)
Using a unique dataset matched at the individual level from two administrative sources, we examine household choices between liabilities and assess the informational content of prime and subprime credit scores in the ...
Climate Change
(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2008)
A substantial proportion of the United States population is at or below the poverty level, yet many of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures proposed or adopted to date will increase the costs of energy, motor ...
The Private Life of Public Law
(Columbia Law Review, 2005)
This Article proposes a new conception of the administrative regulatory state that accounts for the vast networks of private agreements that shadow public regulations. The traditional account of the administrative state ...
Sunstein 1s and 2s
(Green Bag, 2008)
In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
Law, Responsibility, and the Brain
(PLoS Biology, 2007)
This article addresses new developments in neuroscience, and their implications for law. It explores, for example, the relationships between brain injury and violence, as well as the connections between mental disorders ...
Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect
(William & Mary Law Review, 2008)
Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...
The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007)
Contrary to the common wisdom among criminal law scholars, empirical evidence reveals that people's intuitions of justice are often specific, nuanced, and widely shared. Indeed, with regard to the core harms and evils to ...