University of Minnesota Law School
Legal Studies Research Paper Series

The Trials of Winning at the WTO: What Lies Behind Brazil's Success
Gregory Shaffer
Michelle Ratton Sanchez
Barbara Rosenberg
No. 08-49

Business and Law
Gregory C. Shaffer
No. 08-48

The Rationality of Preference Construction (and the Irrationality of Rational Choice
Claire A. Hill
No. 08-47

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Lawsuit: A Social Norms Theory of Incomplete Contracts
Claire A. Hill
No. 08-46

Optimal Timing of Legal Intervention: The Role of Timing Rules
Barbara Luppi
Francesco Parisi
No. 08-45

Optimal Territorial Scope of Laws
Emanuela Carbonara
Barbara Luppi
Francesco Parisi
No. 08-44

A Skeptical View of Deference to the Executive in Times of Crisis
Fionnuala Ni Aolain
Oren Gross
No. 08-43

Accountability & Administrative Structure
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 08-42

The Accountable Executive
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 08-41

Women, Security and the Patriarchy of Internationalized Transitional Justice
Fionnuala NiAolain
No. 08-40

Patent Holdup, Patent Remedies, and Antitrust Responses
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 08-39

Punitive Damages and Class Actions
Marta Cenini & Francesco Parisi
No. 08-38

Tort Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 08-37

Consent in Contract Law
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-36

Pierce Butler: A Supreme Technician
David Stras
No. 08-35

Professor Bainbridge and the Arrowian Moment A Review of The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 08-34

Does Stare Decisis Apply in the Eighth Amendment Death Penalty Context?
Meghan J. Ryan
No. 08-33

The British Approach to Consumer Financial Disputes: A Model for Reform in Insurance Law and Beyond
Daniel Schwarcz
No. 08-32

Horizontal Federalism
Allan Erbsen
No. 08-31

Fighting Women: The Military, Sex, and Extrajudicial Constitutional Change
Jill Hasday
No. 08-30

How do the Social Benefits and Costs of the Patent System Stack Up in Pharmaceuticals?
Daniel J. Gifford
No. 08-29

Government Policy Towards Innovation in the United States, Canada, and the European Union as Manifested in Patent, Copyright and Competition
Daniel J. Gifford
No. 08-28

Trade and Competition Policy in the Developing World: Is There a Role for the WTO?
Daniel J. Gifford & Robert T. Kudrle
No. 08-27

Will Versus Reason: Truth in Natural Law, Positive Law, and Legal Theory
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-26

Rethinking Trademark Fair Use
William McGeveran
No. 08-25

Bylaw Reforms for Delaware's Corporation Law
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 08-24

Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: Assessing a Liability Regime for Long-term Storage of Carbon Dioxide
Alexandra B. Klass & Elizabeth J. Wilson
No. 08-23

The Bogeyman of Three (or More) Parents
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-22

The Law and Economics of Price Discrimination in Modern Economies: Time for Reconciliation?
Daniel J. Gifford & Robert T. Kudrle
No. 08-21

Testimony Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Hearing on "Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 08-20

Moving from "Broken Windows" to Healthy Neighborhood Policy: Reforming Urban Nuisance Law in Public and Private Sectors
Bryan M. Seiler
No. 08-19

Essential Facilities Doctrine
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 08-18

A Problem of Remedy: Responding to Treasury's (Lack of) Compliance With Administrative Procedure Act Rulemaking Requirements
Kristin E. Hickman
No. 08-17

Seeking Rents in the Shadow of Coase
Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, A. (Sander) M. Onderstal, & Francesco Parisi
No. 08-16

Self-Defeating Subsidiarity: An Economic Analysis
Emanuela Carbonara, Barbara Luppi, & Francesco Parisi
No. 08-15

Legal Philosophy in America
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-14

Navigating the New Politics of Judicial Appointments
David R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott
No. 08-13

Arbitration 2007: Workplace Justice in a Changing Environment: The Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators
Laura J. Cooper, Mario F. Bognanno, & Stephen F. Befort
No. 08-12

Online Satellite and Aerial Images: Issues and Analysis
Brian J. Craig
No. 08-11

Testimony on the Department of the Interior's New Policy on Off-Reservation Acquisitions of Land in Trust for Indian Gaming, before the United States House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, 110th Congress, Second Session (February 27, 2008)
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 08-10

Four Free Speech Goals for Trademark Law
William McGeveran
No. 08-09

Best Interests of the Child
Brian Bix
No. 08-08

State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 08-07

Pluralism and Decentralization in Marriage Regulation
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-06

On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy
Brian H. Bix
No. 08-05

Beyond Black's and Webster's Persuasive Value of Thesauri
Brian Craig
No. 08-04

Unjust Laws and Illegal Norms
Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, & Georg von Wangenheim
No. 08-03

Redemption
Alan L. Stiegler
No. 08-02

Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinancy?
Brian Bix
No. 08-01

Testimony on Law Enforcement in Indian Country before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 110th Congress, 1st Session (June 21, 2007)
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-51

Testimony on the Regulation of Indian Gaming, Oversight Hearing on Indian Gaming, before the United States Senate, Committee on Indian Affairs, 109th Congress, 1st Session (September 21, 2005)
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-50

Testimony on the Regulation of Indian Gaming, Oversight Hearing on the [NIGC] Minimum Internal Control Standards, Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, 109th Congress, 2nd Session (May 11, 2006)
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-49

Testimony on the Regulation of Indian Gaming, United States Senate, Committee on Indian Affairs, 109th Congress, 1st Session (April 27, 2005)
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-48

The Frontier of Eminent Domain
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 07-47

The New Politics of Judicial Appointments
David R. Stras
No. 07-46

Plaintiff in Default: An Economic Analysis of Contracts with Mutual Obligations
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-45

The Trustee's Duty to Inform
T.P. Gallanis
No. 07-44

Towards a Functional Definition of Publication in Copyright Law
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 07-43

Takings and Trespass: Trespass Liability for Precondemnation Entries
Ann M. Burkhart
No. 07-42

Harmonization of European Private Law: An Economic Analysis
Francesco Parisi
No. 07-41

Restoring the Grand Jury
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-40

Race, Redistricting. And Representation
Guy-Urial E. Charles
No. 07-39

Choice of Law and Legal Evolution: Rethinking the Market for Legal Rules
Emanuela Carbonara & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-38

The Legacy of Bryan v. Itasca County: How a $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion in Indian Gaming Revenue
Kevin K. Washburn
No. 07-37

Tax My Ride: Taxing Commuters in our National Economy
Morgan L. Holcomb
No. 07-36

Essay: Stone v. Ritter and the Expanding Duty of Loyalty
Claire A. Hill & Brett H. McDonnell
No. 07-35

Two Goals for Executive Compensation Reform
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 07-34

In Search of the "Modern" Skidmore Standard
Kristin E. Hickman & Matthew D. Krueger
No. 07-33

Misuse
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 07-32

Congressional Oversight of National Security Activities: Improving Information Funnels
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 07-31

Contract Rights and Remedies, and the Divergence Between Law and Morality
Brian Bix
No. 07-30

"Macro-Transparency" as Structural Directive: A Look at the NSA Surveillance Controversy
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 07-29

International Customary Law and Articulation Theories: An Economic Analysis
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-28

A Law and Economics Perspective on Terrorism
Nuno Garoupa, Jonathan Klick, & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-27

From "Tragedy" to "Disaster": Welfare Effects of Commons and Anticommons Dilemmas
Sven Vanneste, Alain Van Hiel, Francesco Parisi, & Ben Depoorter
No. 07-26

Two Dimensions of Regulatory Competition
Francesco Parisi, Norbet Schulz, & Jonathan Klick
No. 07-25

Matching Rules
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-24

Siben Lecture: Domestic Agreements
Brian Bix
No. 07-23

Hamdan and Common Article 3: Did the Supreme Court Get it Right?
Fionnuala Ni Aoláin
No. 07-22

Stickey Defaults and Altering Rules in Corporate Law
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 07-21

Role-Reversibility, Stochastic Ignorance, and Social Cooperation
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-20

Judicial Precedents in Civil Law Systems: A Dynamic Analysis
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-19

The Comparative Law and Economics of Pure Economic Loss
Francesco Parisi, Vernon Valentine Palmer, & Mauro Bussani
No. 07-18

On the Optimal Specificity of Legal Rules
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-17

The Formation of International Treaties
Vincy Fon & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-16

Social Networks, Self-Denial, and Median Preferences: Conformity as an Evolutionary Strategy
Jonathan Klick & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-15

The Paradox of Legal Harmonization
Emanuela Carbonara & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-14

Substituting Compliments
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-13

Coase Theorem
Francesco Parisi
No. 07-12

Legislate Today or Wait Until Tomorrow? An Investment Approach to Lawmaking
Francesco Parisi & Nita Ghei
No. 07-11

The Role of Status Quo Bias and Bayesian Learning in the Creation of New Legal Rights
Francesco Parisi
No. 07-10

Punitive Damages and Valuing Harm
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 07-08

Creating Failures in the Market for Tax Planning
Philip A. Curry, Claire Hill, & Francesco Parisi
No. 07-07

Democracy and Distortion
Guy-Uriel E. Charles
No. 07-06

Patents, Tax Shelters, and the Firm
Dan L. Burk & Brett H. McDonnell
No. 07-05

Recent Skirmishes in the Battle Over Corporate Voting and Governance
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 07-04

Classified Information Leaks and Free Speech
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 07-03

Anti-Anti-Anti Paternalism
Claire A. Hill
No. 07-02

Coloring Outside the Lines: Examining Treasury's (Lack of) Compliance with Administrative Procedure Act Rulemaking Requirements
Kristin E. Hickman
No. 07-01

Fair Use and Copyright Overenforcement
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 06-69

A Burkean Perspective on Patent Eligibility
Thomas F. Cotter
No. 06-68

Why Supreme Court Justices Should Ride Circuit Again
David R. Stras
No. 06-67

The Mereology of Digital Copyright
Dan L. Burk
No. 06-66

Joseph Raz and Conceptual Analysis
Brian Bix
No. 06-65

Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, and Some Modest Proposals for Reform
Dale Carpenter
No. 06-64

An Empirical Analysis of Life Tenure: A Response to Professors Calabresi & Lindgren
David R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott
No. 06-63

Constitutional Interpretation and the "World Out There": An Introduction to the Symposium
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 06-62

The Supreme Courts Gatekeepers: The Role of Law Clerks in the Certiorari Process
David R. Stras
No. 06-61

The Nature of the Public Utility: Infrastructure, the Market, and the Law
Jim Chen
No. 06-60

"Macro-Transparency" as Structural Directive: A Look at the NSA Surveillance Controversy
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 06-59

Of Lenity, Chevron, and KPMG
Kristin E. Hickman
No. 06-58

The Problem of Process in Biotechnology
Dan L. Burk
No. 06-57

The Perfect Storm of Retirement Insecurity: Fixing the Three-Legged Stool of Social Security, Pensions, and Personal Savings
Stephen F. Befort
No. 06-56

Extraordinary Rendition and the Humanitarian Law of War and Occupation
David Weissbrodt & Amy Bergquist
No. 06-55

Of Agriculture's First Disobedience and Its Fruit
Jim Chen
No. 06-54

Mark My Words
Jim Chen & Gill Grantmore
No. 06-53

True Blue
Jim Chen & Gil Grantmore
No. 06-52

Modern Public Trust Principles: Recognizing Rights and Integrating Standards
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 06-51

Endogenous Preferences and Welfare Evaluations
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 06-50

A Tax Lawyer's Perspective on Section 527 Organizations
Gregg D. Polsky
No. 06-49

Academic Data Collection in Electronic Environments: Defining Acceptable Use of Internet Resources
Gove N. Allen, Dan L. Burk, & Gordon B. Davis
No. 06-48

Intellectual Property in the Context of E-Science
Dan L. Burk
No. 06-47

Disney, Good Faith, and Structural Bias
Claire Hill and Brett McDonnell
No. 06-46

Constitutional Curiosities: A Twenty-One Question Scavenger Hunt
Jim Chen
No. 06-45

Constitutional Law Haiku
Jim Chen
No. 06-44

Feminism and Dualism in Intellectual Property
Dan L. Burk
No. 06-43

From Right to Wrong: A Critique of the 2000 Uniform Parentage Act
Mary Patricia Byrn
No. 06-42

Judicial Epochs in Supreme Court History: Shifting Through the Fossil Record for Stitches in Time and Switches in Nine
Jim Chen
No. 06-41

Subsidized Rural Telephony and the Public Interest: A Case Study in Cooperative Federalism and Its Pitfalls
Jim Chen
No. 06-40

Extraordinary Rendition and the Torture Convention
David Weissbrodt & Amy Bergquist
No. 06-39

Domestic Violence Matters: The Case for Appointed Counsel in Protective Order Proceedings
Beverly Balos
No. 06-38

Authorship, Audiences, and Anonymous Speech
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky & Thomas F. Cotter
No. 06-37

La Constitucion de los Estados Unidos en Espanol: Un Servicio para El Publo Americano
Jim Chen
No. 06-36

Unanimously Wrong
Dale Carpenter
No. 06-35

Pharmacist Refusals: Dispensing (with) Religious Accommodation Under Title VII
Amy Bergquist
No. 06-34

Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis
David Weissbrodt & Amy Bergquist
No. 06-33

Ethics and Corruption in Business and Government: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble and the Bank of the United States
Richard W. Painter
No. 06-32

Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice
Oren Gross & Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain
No. 06-31

First Person Plural
Jim Chen
No. 06-30

Reforming the Taxation of Deferred Compensation
Ethan Yale & Gregg D. Polsky
No. 06-29

Diversity and Deadlock: Transcending Conventional Wisdom on the Relationship Between Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property
Jim Chen
No. 06-28

Across the Apocalypse on Horseback: Biodiversity Loss and the Law
Jim Chen
No. 06-27

Common Law and Federalism in the Age of the Regulatory State
Alexandra B. Klass
No. 06-26

Modeling Law Review Impact Factors as an Exponential Distribution
Jim Chen
No. 06-25

Filburn's Legacy
Jim Chen
No. 06-24

With All Deliberate Speed: Brown II and Desegregation's Children
Jim Chen
No. 06-23

Lessons from the European Union: The Need for a Post-Grant Mechanism for Third-Party Challenge to U.S. Patents
Jordan Paradise
No. 06-22

The Battle for Transitional Justice: Hegemony, Iraq and International Law
Christine Bell, Colm Campbell, & Fionnuala Ni Aolain
No. 06-21

The Missing Piece?: Naming and Accounting for Gendered Violence in Transitional Societies
Fionnuala Ni Aolain & Catherine Turner
No. 06-20

Rights After the Revolution: Progress or Backslide After the Good Friday Agreement?
Maggie Beirne & Fionnuala Ni Aolain
No. 06-19

The Midas Touch
Jim Chen
No. 06-18

The Echoes of Forgotten Footfalls: Telecommunications Mergers at the Dawn of the Digital Millenium
Jim Chen
No. 06-17

Political Violence and Gender During Times of Transition
Fionnuala Ni Aolain
No. 06-16

Diverging Perspectives on Electronic Contracting in the US and the EU
Jane K. Winn & Brian H. Bix
No. 06-15

Ross on Rights
Brian Bix
No. 06-14

Robert Alexy's Radbruch
Brian Bix
No. 06-13

Contract Law Theory
Brian Bix
No. 06-12

The Goldilocks Hypothesis: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights at the Boundary of the Firm
Dan L. Burk & Brett H. McDonnell
No. 06-11

Are Senior Judges Unconstitutional?
David R. Stras
No. 06-10

Taxpayer Standing and DaimlerChrysler v. Cuno-Where Do We Go From Here? Kristin E. Hickman & Donald B. Tobin
No. 06-09

The Use of Prebirth Parentage Orders in Surrogacy Proceedings
Steven H. Snyder & Mary Patricia Byrn
No. 06-08

Minnesota Rails to Trails on the Line in State v. Hess
Karla Vehrs
No. 06-07

Employee Primacy, Or Economics Meets Civic Republicanism At Work
Brett H. McDonnell
No. 06-06

Foreword: The Future of the Supreme Court: Institutional Reform and Beyond
David R. Stras and Karla Vehrs
No. 06-05

The Story of Sutton v. United Airlines, Inc.: Narrowing the Reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Stephen F. Befort
No. 06-04

Mastering Eliot's Paradox: Fostering Cultural Memory in an Age of Illusion and Allusion
Jim Chen
No. 06-03

A Vision Softly Creeping: Congressional Acquiescence and the Dormant Commerce Clause
Jim Chen
No. 06-02

Secrecy and Separated Powers: Executive Privilege Revisited
Heidi Kitrosser
No. 06-01