Submissions from 2017
The Black Hole Problem in Commercial Boilerplate, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Robert E. Scott
Variation in Boilerplate: Rational Design or Random Mutation?, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Robert E. Scott
The Puzzle of PDVSA Bond Prices, Paolo Colla, Anna Gelpern, and Mitu Gulati
Brief of Professors at Law and Business Schools As Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, James D. Cox, J. Robert Brown Jr., Lyman Johnson, Lawrence W. Treece, and Joan MacLeod Heminway
James DeWitt Andrews: Classifying the Law in the Early Twentieth Century*, Richard A. Danner
Signing Statements and Presidentializing Legislative History, John de Figueiredo and Edward H. Stiglitz
Market Information and the Elite law Firm, Elisabeth de Fontenay
The Deregulation of Private Capital and the Decline of the Public Company, Elisabeth de Fontenay
Corporate Officers as Agents, Deborah A. DeMott
"Cybervandalism" or "Digital Act of War?" America's Muddled Approach to Cyber Incidents Will Not Deter More Crises, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Lawfare 101: A Primer, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Social Justice and Silicon Valley: A Perspective on the Apple-FBI Case and the “Going Dark” Debate, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
The Role of Social Enterprise and Hybrid Organizations, Ofer Eldar
Regulatory Competition and the Market for Corporate Law, Ofer Eldar and Lorenzo Magnolfi
The Economics of Healthcare Rationing, Michael D. Frakes, Matthew B. Frank, and Kyle Rozema
Constitutional Reasonableness, Brandon L. Garrett
The Boom and Bust of American Imprisonment, Brandon L. Garrett
The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon, Brandon L. Garrett
The Decline of the Virginia (and American) Death Penalty, Brandon L. Garrett
The Public Interest in Corporate Settlements, Brandon L. Garrett
Towards an International Right to Claim Innocence, Brandon L. Garrett
The American Death Penalty Decline, Brandon L. Garrett, Alexander Jakubow, and Ankur Desai
Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline, Brandon L. Garrett, Daniel Krauss, and Nicholas Scurich
A Tactical Fourth Amendment, Brandon L. Garrett and Seth Stoughton
Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes, Sara Sternberg Greene, Parina Patel, and Katherine M. Porter
The Fragile Promise of Open-File Discovery, Ben Grunwald
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later, Ben Grunwald and Andrew V. Papachristos
How to Restructure Venezuelan Debt (¿Cómo restructurar la deuda venezolana?), Mitu Gulati and Lee C. Buchheit
Puerto Rico and the Netherworld of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Mitu Gulati and Robert K. Rasmussen
Organ Entrepreneurs, Kieran Healy and Kimberly D. Krawiec
Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body, Kieran Healy and Kimberly D. Krawiec
Sub-Regional Courts in Africa: Litigating the Hybrid Right to Freedom of Movement, Laurence R. Helfer
Opposing International Justice: Kenya’s Integrated Backlash Strategy Against the ICC, Laurence R. Helfer and Anne E. Showalter
Changing the Tax Code to Create Consumer-Driven Health Insurance Competition, Regina Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
A Different Class of Care: The Benefits Crisis and Low-Wage Workers, Trina Jones
Aggressive Encounters & White Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman, Trina Jones and Kimberly Jade Norwood
Democratic Enforcement? Accountability and Independence for the Litigation State, Margaret H. Lemos
Three Models of Adjudicative Representation, Margaret H. Lemos
Patriotic Philanthropy? Financing the State with Gifts to Government, Margaret H. Lemos and Guy-Uriel Charles
Panel Assignment in the Federal Courts of Appeals, Marin K. Levy
Law and Recognition-- Towards a Relational Concept of Law, Ralf Michaels
Fear and Firearms, Darrell A. H. Miller
Inequality Rediscovered, Jedediah Purdy and David Singh Grewal
Risk Regulation and Innovation: The Case of Rights-Encumbered Biomedical Data Silos, Arti K. Rai
An Autopsy of Cooperation: Diamond Dealers and the Limits of Trust-Based Exchange, Barak D. Richman
Pharmaceutical M&A Activity: Effects on Prices, Innovation, and Competition, Barak D. Richman, Will Mitchell, Elena Vidal, and Kevin Schulman
N.C. Medicaid Reform: A Bipartisan Path Forward, Barak D. Richman and Allison Rice
Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell, Stephen E. Sachs
Originalism Without Text, Stephen E. Sachs
Pennoyer Was Right, Stephen E. Sachs
A Model-law Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Steven L. Schwarcz
Changing Law to Address Changing Markets: A Consequence-Based Inquiry, Steven L. Schwarcz
Controlling Systemic Risk Through Corporate Governance, Steven L. Schwarcz
Rethinking Corporate Governance for a Bondholder Financed, Systemically Risky World, Steven L. Schwarcz
Sovereign Debt Restructuring and English Governing Law, Steven L. Schwarcz
The Financial Crisis and Credit Unavailability: Cause or Effect?, Steven L. Schwarcz
Too Big to Fool: Moral Hazard, Bailouts, and Corporate Responsibility, Steven L. Schwarcz
Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System, Neil S. Siegel
Sovereign Debt and the “Contracts Matter” Hypothesis, W. Mark C. Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati
Differing Perceptions? Market Practice and the Evolution of Foreign Sovereign Immunity, W. Mark C. Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati
Brief of Amicus Curiae Children’s Law Clinic at Duke Law School Advocates for Children’s Services of Legal Aid of North Carolina Public Schools First NC, Jane R. Wettach, Peggy Nicholson, K. Ricky Watson Jr., Celia Pistolis, Aisha Forte, Jennifer Story, and Kevin Zhao
What Can Europe Tell Us About the Future of American Federalism?, Ernest A. Young
Submissions from 2016
(Mis)recognizing Polygamy, Kerry Abrams
DNA and Distrust, Kerry Abrams and Brandon L. Garrett
Aggregating Moral Preferences, Matthew D. Adler
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview, Matthew D. Adler
Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert?, Matthew D. Adler
Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon, Matthew D. Adler, David Anthoff, Valentina Bosetti, Greg Garner, Klaus Keller, and Nicolas Treich
Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari, John R. Allison; Margo Bagley; James Bessen; Jeremy Bock; Daniel H. Brean; Michael A. Carrier; Michael W. Carroll; Bernard Chao; Tun-Jen Chiang; Colleen V. Chien; Andrew Chin; Robert Cook-Deegan, MD; Rochelle Dreyfuss; Dr. Dieter Ernst; Samuel F. Ernst; Robin C. Feldman; Lee Fleming; Brian Frye; William Gallagher; Shubha Ghosh; Eric Goldman; Bronwyn H. Hall; Yaniv Heled; Christian Helmers; Joachim Henkel; Susan Helper; Tim Holbrook; Herbert Hovenkamp; William Hubbard; Dr. Xavier Jaravel; Dennis S. Karjala; Peter Lee; Mark A. Lemley; David K. Levine; David S. Levine; Doug Lichtman; Yvette Joy Liebesman; Orly Lobel; Brian Love; Phil Malone; Michael J. Meurer; Dr. Shawn Miller; Matthew Mitchell; Susan Barbieri Montgomery; Sean Pager; Arti K. Rai; Jacob H. Rooksby; Jorge R. Roig; Matthew Sag; Pamela Samuelson; Ana Santos Rutschman; Lea Bishop Shaver; Toshiko Takenaka; John L. Turner; Jennifer Urban; and Eric von Hippel
Backlash Against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences, Karen J. Alter, James T. Gathii, and Laurence R. Helfer
How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts, Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer, and Mikael Rask Madsen
Brief of Amici Curiae Professors of Law in Support of Petitioner, Barbara Allen Babcock, Jeffrey Bellin, Darryl K. Brown, Robert P. Burns, James E. Coleman Jr., Lisa Kern Griffin, Robert P. Mosteller, Deborah Tuerkheimer, Neil Vidmar, and Jessica L. West
Sharing Sexism, Katharine T. Bartlett
Discrimination by Customers, Katharine T. Bartlett and Mitu Gulati
Originalism’s Bite, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
Adaptive Financial Regulation and RegTech: A Concept Article on Realistic Protection for Victims of Bank Failures, Lawrence G. Baxter
Understanding the Global in Global Finance and Regulation, Lawrence G. Baxter
Administrative Power in the Era of Patent Stare Decisis, Stuart M. Benjamin and Arti K. Rai
Judicial Retirements and the Staying Power of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, Stuart M. Benjamin and Georg Vanberg
The Death Penalty and the Fifth Amendment, Joseph Blocher
Competing for Refugees: A Market-Based Solution to a Humanitarian Crisis, Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati
Can Greece be Expelled from the Eurozone? Toward a Default Rule on Expulsion from International Organizations, Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati, and Laurence R. Helfer
Practice and Precedent in Historical Gloss Games, Joseph Blocher and Margaret H. Lemos
Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives, Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
What is Gun Control? Direct Burdens Incidental Burdens, and the Boundaries of the Second Amendment, Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government, Alexander D. Bolton, John de Figueiredo, and David E. Lewis
The Supreme Court as a Filter Between International Law and American Constitutionalism, Curtis A. Bradley
Presidential War Powers as a Two-Level Dynamic: International Law, Domestic Law, and Practice-Based Legal Change, Curtis A. Bradley and Jean Galbraith
A Sovereign’s Cost of Capital: Go Foreign or Stay Local, Michael Bradley, Irving Arturo De Lira Salvatierra, and Mitu Gulati
Pricing Sovereign Debt: Discretion v. Expropriation, Michael Bradley, Irving De Lira Salvatierra, and Mitu Gulati
Trade in Environmental Goods: A Review of the WTO Appellate Body’s Ruling in US — Countervailing Measures (China), Rachel Brewster, Claire Brunel, and Anna Maria Mayda
Talking One's Way Out of a Debt Crisis, Lee C. Buchheit and G. Mitu Gulati
Targeted Subordination of Official Sector Debt, Lee C. Buchheit and Mitu Gulati
Marriage on the Ballot: An Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage Referendums in North Carolina, Minnesota, and Washington During the 2012 Elections, Craig M. Burnett and Mathew D. McCubbins
Exemplary Law Books of 2015: Five Recommendations, Femi Cadmus
The Quintessential Law Library and Librarian in a Digital Era, Femi Cadmus
Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off, Charles M. Cameron, John de Figueiredo, and David E. Lewis
Pricing Contract Terms in a Crisis: Venezuelan Bonds in 2016, Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla, Mitu Gulati, and Steven Ongena
Comment to the SEC in Support of the Enhanced Disclosure of Patent and Technology License Information, Colleen V. Chien, Jorge Contreras, Carol Corrado, Stuart Graham, Deepak Hedge, Arti K. Rai, and Saurabh Vishnubhakat
The Pricing of Non-Price Terms in Sovereign Bonds: The Case of the Greek Guarantees, Stephen J. Choi and Mitu Gulati