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Part I General Theories and General Historical Perspectives
1. 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87 (1986) / Saul Levmore 3
2. 'The Competitive Relationship among Sources of Law', in Comparative Law and Economics, Chapter 4, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 101-21 (1997) / Ugo Mattei 56
3. 'The Economic Basis of Legal Culture: Networks and Monopolization', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 22 (3), Autumn, 419-34 (2002) / Anthony Ogus 77
4. 'Legal Origins', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVII, November, 1193-229 (2002) / Edward L. Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer 93
5. 'The Economic Theory of Primitive Law', in The Economics of Justice, Chapter 7, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 174-206 (1981) / Richard A. Posner 130
6. 'The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law', American Law and Economics Review, 3 (1), Spring, 82-124 (2001) / Francesco Parisi 163
Part II Regulatory Competition and Legal Transplants
7. 'Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing?', Journal of Public Economics, 35 (3), April, 333-54 (1988) / Wallace E. Oates, Robert M. Schwab 209
8. 'Towards an Institutional Legal Framework for Regulatory Competition in Europe', Kyklos, 53 (4), 435-65 (2000) / Roger Van den Bergh 231
9. 'Legal and Economic Integration: The Cases For and Against Legal Transplants', in Law and Economics in Developing Countries, Chapter 2, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 31-54, references (2000) / Edgardo Buscaglia, William Ratliff 262
10. 'Information Problems Caused by Regulatory Competition, and Their Solution: International Standard Codes', in Stefan Grundmann and Jules Stuyck (eds), An Academic Green Paper on European Contract Law, Chapter 23, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 373-85 (2002) / Gerrit De Geest 288
11. 'The Transplant Effect', American Journal of Comparative Law, 51 (1), Winter, 163-203 (2003) / Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor, Jean-Francois Richard 301
Part III Legal Systems and Economic Growth
12. 'The Issue' and 'France and Spain
The Also-rans', in The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Chapters 1 and 10, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-8, 120-31, 159, 165-6 (1973) / Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas 345
13. 'The Developed Democracies Since World War II', in The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Chapter 4, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 75-117, 251-8 (1982) / Mancur Olson 367
14. 'The Quality of Government', Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 15 (1), 222-79 (1999) / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny 418
15. 'The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right', Journal of Legal Studies, XXX (2, Part I), June, 503-25 (2001) / Paul G. Mahoney 476
Part I Property
1. 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LVII (2), May, 347-59 (1967) / Harold Demsetz 3
2. 'Variety and Uniformity in the Treatment of the Good-Faith Purchaser', Journal of Legal Studies, XVI (1), January, 43-65 (1987) / Saul Levmore 16
3. 'Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence', Journal of Legal Studies, XVIII (1), January, 51-77 (1989) / J. Mark Ramseyer 39
4. 'Custom, Capitalism, and the State: The Origins of Insecure Land Tenure in West Africa', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 156 (3), September, 513-30 (2000) / Kathryn Firmin-Sellers 66
5. 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 622-88 (1998) / Michael A. Heller 84
6. 'Entropy in Property', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (3), Summer, 595-632 (2002) / Francesco Parisi 151
Part II Tort Law and Restitution
7. 'An Empirical Test of the Comparative and Contributory Negligence Rules in Accident Law', RAND Journal of Economics, 20 (3), Autumn, 308-30 (1989) / Michelle J. White 191
8. 'The Enforcement of Product Liability Rules: A Two-Country Analysis of Court Cases', International Review of Law and Economics, 11 (2), September, 133-48 (1991) / J. Finsinger, T. Hoehn, A. Pototschnig 214
9. 'Private Takings, Private Taxes, Private Compulsory Services: The Economic Doctrine of Quasi Contracts', International Review of Law and Economics, 15 (4), December, 463-87 (1995) / Boudewijn Bouckaert, Gerrit De Geest 230
10. 'Negligence as Untaken Precaution, Limited Information, and Efficient Standard Formation in the Civil Liability System', International Review of Law and Economics, 17 (1), March, 15-29 (1997) / Claus Ott, Hans-Bernd Schafer 255
11. 'Liability for Pure Financial Loss in Europe: An Economic Restatement', American Journal of Comparative Law, 51 (1), Winter, 113-62 (2003) / Mauro Bussani, Vernon Valentine Palmer, Francesco Parisi 270
Part III Contracts and Consumer Protection
12. 'Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice of Contractual Arrangements', Journal of Law and Economics, XII (1), April, 23-42 (1969) / Steven N.S. Cheung 323
13. 'A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law', Journal of Legal Studies, X (2), June, 349-62 (1981) / Janet T. Landa 343
14. 'Breach of Contract in the Soviet Economy', Journal of Legal Studies, XVI (1), January, 119-48 (1987) / Heidi Kroll 357
15. 'Who Should Bear the Costs of Failed Negotiations? A Functional Inquiry into Precontractual Liability', Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 4 (1), March, 93-134 (1993) / Wouter P.J. Wils 387
16. 'Precontractual Duties of Disclosure: A Comparative and Economic Perspective', European Journal of Law and Economics, 9 (1), January, 5-19 (2000) / Hein Kotz 429
17. 'The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete', New York University Law Review, 74 (3), June, 575-629 (1999) / Ronald J. Gilson 444
18. 'Cooling-off Periods in the Consumer Laws of the EC Member States. A Comparative Law and Economics Approach', Journal of Consumer Policy, 23 (4), December, 371-407 (2000) / Pamaria Rekaiti, Roger Van den Bergh 499
Part I Corporate Law and Organizations
1. 'Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States', Yale Law Journal, 102 (8), June, 1927-2003 (1993) / Mark J. Roe 3
2. 'The Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy: A U.S.-European Comparison', in Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Lawrence A. Weiss (eds), Corporate Bankruptcy: Economic and Legal Perspectives, Chapter 30, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 467-500 (1996) / Michelle J. White 80
3. 'The Functions of Trust Law: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis', New York University Law Review, 73 (2), May, 434-79 (1998) / Henry Hansmann, Ugo Mattei 114
4. 'Law and Finance', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (6), December, 1113-55 (1998) / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny 160
5. 'Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?', Stanford Law Review, 52, July, 1731-808 (2000) / Bernard Black, Reinier Kraakman, Anna Tarassova 203
6. 'The End of History for Corporate Law', Georgetown Law Journal, 89 (2), January, 439-68 (2001) / Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman 281
7. 'Do Norms Matter? A Cross-country Evaluation', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 149 (6), June, 2151-77 (2001) / John C. Coffee, Jr. 311
Part II Procedural Law
8. 'The Legal-Economic Analysis of Comparative Civil Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 45 (4), Fall, 905-18 (1997) / Geoffrey P. Miller 341
9. 'The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan', Journal of Legal Studies, XVIII (2), June, 263-90 (1989) / J. Mark Ramseyer, Minoru Nakazato 355
10. 'The Conflicts of Jurisdictions -An Economic Analysis of Pre-trial Discovery, Fact Gathering and Cost Shifting Rules in the United States and Germany', European Review of Private Law, 3 (1), 53-93 (197??) / Michael Adams 383
11. 'Lecture Three: Functional, Systemic Comparisons of Legal Systems', in Law and Legal Theory in England and America, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 69-114 (1996) / Richard A. Posner 424
12. 'Comparative Judicial Discretion: An Empirical Test of Economic Models', International Review of Law and Economics, 16, 295-313 (1996) / Robert D. Cooter, Tom Ginsburg 470
13. 'A Quantitative Assessment of the Efficiency of the Judicial Sector in Latin America', International Review of Law and Economics, 17 (2), June, 275-91 (1997) / Edgardo Buscaglia, Thomas Ulen 489.
1. 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87 (1986) / Saul Levmore 3
2. 'The Competitive Relationship among Sources of Law', in Comparative Law and Economics, Chapter 4, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 101-21 (1997) / Ugo Mattei 56
3. 'The Economic Basis of Legal Culture: Networks and Monopolization', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 22 (3), Autumn, 419-34 (2002) / Anthony Ogus 77
4. 'Legal Origins', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVII, November, 1193-229 (2002) / Edward L. Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer 93
5. 'The Economic Theory of Primitive Law', in The Economics of Justice, Chapter 7, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 174-206 (1981) / Richard A. Posner 130
6. 'The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law', American Law and Economics Review, 3 (1), Spring, 82-124 (2001) / Francesco Parisi 163
Part II Regulatory Competition and Legal Transplants
7. 'Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing?', Journal of Public Economics, 35 (3), April, 333-54 (1988) / Wallace E. Oates, Robert M. Schwab 209
8. 'Towards an Institutional Legal Framework for Regulatory Competition in Europe', Kyklos, 53 (4), 435-65 (2000) / Roger Van den Bergh 231
9. 'Legal and Economic Integration: The Cases For and Against Legal Transplants', in Law and Economics in Developing Countries, Chapter 2, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 31-54, references (2000) / Edgardo Buscaglia, William Ratliff 262
10. 'Information Problems Caused by Regulatory Competition, and Their Solution: International Standard Codes', in Stefan Grundmann and Jules Stuyck (eds), An Academic Green Paper on European Contract Law, Chapter 23, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 373-85 (2002) / Gerrit De Geest 288
11. 'The Transplant Effect', American Journal of Comparative Law, 51 (1), Winter, 163-203 (2003) / Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor, Jean-Francois Richard 301
Part III Legal Systems and Economic Growth
12. 'The Issue' and 'France and Spain
The Also-rans', in The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Chapters 1 and 10, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-8, 120-31, 159, 165-6 (1973) / Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas 345
13. 'The Developed Democracies Since World War II', in The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Chapter 4, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 75-117, 251-8 (1982) / Mancur Olson 367
14. 'The Quality of Government', Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 15 (1), 222-79 (1999) / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny 418
15. 'The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right', Journal of Legal Studies, XXX (2, Part I), June, 503-25 (2001) / Paul G. Mahoney 476
Part I Property
1. 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LVII (2), May, 347-59 (1967) / Harold Demsetz 3
2. 'Variety and Uniformity in the Treatment of the Good-Faith Purchaser', Journal of Legal Studies, XVI (1), January, 43-65 (1987) / Saul Levmore 16
3. 'Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence', Journal of Legal Studies, XVIII (1), January, 51-77 (1989) / J. Mark Ramseyer 39
4. 'Custom, Capitalism, and the State: The Origins of Insecure Land Tenure in West Africa', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 156 (3), September, 513-30 (2000) / Kathryn Firmin-Sellers 66
5. 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 622-88 (1998) / Michael A. Heller 84
6. 'Entropy in Property', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (3), Summer, 595-632 (2002) / Francesco Parisi 151
Part II Tort Law and Restitution
7. 'An Empirical Test of the Comparative and Contributory Negligence Rules in Accident Law', RAND Journal of Economics, 20 (3), Autumn, 308-30 (1989) / Michelle J. White 191
8. 'The Enforcement of Product Liability Rules: A Two-Country Analysis of Court Cases', International Review of Law and Economics, 11 (2), September, 133-48 (1991) / J. Finsinger, T. Hoehn, A. Pototschnig 214
9. 'Private Takings, Private Taxes, Private Compulsory Services: The Economic Doctrine of Quasi Contracts', International Review of Law and Economics, 15 (4), December, 463-87 (1995) / Boudewijn Bouckaert, Gerrit De Geest 230
10. 'Negligence as Untaken Precaution, Limited Information, and Efficient Standard Formation in the Civil Liability System', International Review of Law and Economics, 17 (1), March, 15-29 (1997) / Claus Ott, Hans-Bernd Schafer 255
11. 'Liability for Pure Financial Loss in Europe: An Economic Restatement', American Journal of Comparative Law, 51 (1), Winter, 113-62 (2003) / Mauro Bussani, Vernon Valentine Palmer, Francesco Parisi 270
Part III Contracts and Consumer Protection
12. 'Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice of Contractual Arrangements', Journal of Law and Economics, XII (1), April, 23-42 (1969) / Steven N.S. Cheung 323
13. 'A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law', Journal of Legal Studies, X (2), June, 349-62 (1981) / Janet T. Landa 343
14. 'Breach of Contract in the Soviet Economy', Journal of Legal Studies, XVI (1), January, 119-48 (1987) / Heidi Kroll 357
15. 'Who Should Bear the Costs of Failed Negotiations? A Functional Inquiry into Precontractual Liability', Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 4 (1), March, 93-134 (1993) / Wouter P.J. Wils 387
16. 'Precontractual Duties of Disclosure: A Comparative and Economic Perspective', European Journal of Law and Economics, 9 (1), January, 5-19 (2000) / Hein Kotz 429
17. 'The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete', New York University Law Review, 74 (3), June, 575-629 (1999) / Ronald J. Gilson 444
18. 'Cooling-off Periods in the Consumer Laws of the EC Member States. A Comparative Law and Economics Approach', Journal of Consumer Policy, 23 (4), December, 371-407 (2000) / Pamaria Rekaiti, Roger Van den Bergh 499
Part I Corporate Law and Organizations
1. 'Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States', Yale Law Journal, 102 (8), June, 1927-2003 (1993) / Mark J. Roe 3
2. 'The Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy: A U.S.-European Comparison', in Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Lawrence A. Weiss (eds), Corporate Bankruptcy: Economic and Legal Perspectives, Chapter 30, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 467-500 (1996) / Michelle J. White 80
3. 'The Functions of Trust Law: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis', New York University Law Review, 73 (2), May, 434-79 (1998) / Henry Hansmann, Ugo Mattei 114
4. 'Law and Finance', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (6), December, 1113-55 (1998) / Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny 160
5. 'Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?', Stanford Law Review, 52, July, 1731-808 (2000) / Bernard Black, Reinier Kraakman, Anna Tarassova 203
6. 'The End of History for Corporate Law', Georgetown Law Journal, 89 (2), January, 439-68 (2001) / Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman 281
7. 'Do Norms Matter? A Cross-country Evaluation', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 149 (6), June, 2151-77 (2001) / John C. Coffee, Jr. 311
Part II Procedural Law
8. 'The Legal-Economic Analysis of Comparative Civil Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 45 (4), Fall, 905-18 (1997) / Geoffrey P. Miller 341
9. 'The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan', Journal of Legal Studies, XVIII (2), June, 263-90 (1989) / J. Mark Ramseyer, Minoru Nakazato 355
10. 'The Conflicts of Jurisdictions -An Economic Analysis of Pre-trial Discovery, Fact Gathering and Cost Shifting Rules in the United States and Germany', European Review of Private Law, 3 (1), 53-93 (197??) / Michael Adams 383
11. 'Lecture Three: Functional, Systemic Comparisons of Legal Systems', in Law and Legal Theory in England and America, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 69-114 (1996) / Richard A. Posner 424
12. 'Comparative Judicial Discretion: An Empirical Test of Economic Models', International Review of Law and Economics, 16, 295-313 (1996) / Robert D. Cooter, Tom Ginsburg 470
13. 'A Quantitative Assessment of the Efficiency of the Judicial Sector in Latin America', International Review of Law and Economics, 17 (2), June, 275-91 (1997) / Edgardo Buscaglia, Thomas Ulen 489.