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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 ...
The Social Meaning of Environmental Command and Control
(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2001)
This essay draws on the new social norms literature to examine one of the possible reasons for the public misperceptions about the sources of the remaining environmental problems. The essay suggests that one of the insights ...
Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
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 ...
Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
On the Nature of Norms: Biology, Morality, and the Disruption of Order
(Michigan Law Review, 2000)
This essay discusses the legal implications of bio-behavioral underpinnings to norms, morality, and economic order. It first discusses the recent book "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social ...
Proprioception, Non-Law, and Biolegal History
(Florida Law Review, 2001)
This Article explores several advantages of incorporating into law various insights from behavioral biology about how and why the brain works as it does. In particular, the Article explores the ways in which those insights ...
Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings
(Cornell Law Review, 2001)
This review essay discusses the book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer (MIT Press, 2000). The essay builds on work previously appearing in Owen D. Jones, ...