Alexander Stremitzer Assistant Professor of Law
	B.Sc., Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 2000 M.I.M.(C.E.M.S.), HEC-Paris, 2000 Ph.D., Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 2003 J.D., University of Vienna, 2006 UCLA Law faculty since 2011 stremitzer@law.ucla.edu
Biography | Bibliography | Courses

Articles and Chapters

On and Off Contract Remedies Inducing Cooperative Investments (with Richard R. W. Brooks), 14(2) American Law and Economics Review 488-516 (2012). [Working Paper Version]

Opportunistic Termination, 28 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 381-406 (2012). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Standard Breach Remedies, Quality Thresholds, and Cooperative Investments, 28 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 337-59 (2012). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Framing Contracts: Why Loss Framing Increases Effort (with Richard R. W. Brooks and Stephan Tontrup), 168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 62-82 (2012). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

The Measure of a MAC: A Machine-Learning Protocol for Analyzing Force Majeure Clauses in M&A Agreements: Comment, 168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 206-208 (2012). Full Text

Beyond Ex Post Expediency - An Ex Ante View of Rescission (with Richard R.W. Brooks), 68 Washington and Lee Law Review 1171-83 (2011). Full Text

Remedies On and Off Contract (with Richard R.W. Brooks), 120 Yale Law Journal 690-727 (2011). Full Text

If You Give Shareholders Power, Do They Use It?: Comment, 166 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 58-61 (2010). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Erga Omnes Norms and the Enforcement of International Law: Comment, 165 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 29-32 (2009). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Der Einwand rechtmäßigen Alternativverhaltens - Rechtsvergleich, Ökonomische Analyse und Implikationen für die Proportionalhaftung (with Kristoffel Grechenig), 73 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 336-371 (2009). (English Title: The Doctrine of Proximate Cause - A Comparative and Economic Approach and its Implications for Proportional Liability) [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Haftung bei Unsicherheit des hypothetischen Kausalitätsverlaufs – Berechnungsmethoden am Beispiel der Arzthaftung, 208(5) Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP) 676-698 (Oktober 2008). (English Title: Liability under Uncertain Causation – Calculation of Damages in Medical Malpractice Cases)  [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Exploiting Plaintiffs through Settlement: Divide and Conquer: Comment, 164 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 27-30 (2008). [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Ökonomische Analyse der Organhaftung (with Georg Eckert and Kristoffel Grechenig), in Vorstandshaftung in 15 europäischen Ländern 95-163 (edited by S. Klass, Linde Verlag, Wien, 2005). (English Title: Economic Analysis of Director’s Liability) [Working Paper Version] Full Text

Agency Theory: Methodology, Analysis. A Structured Approach to Writing Contracts. Peter Lang (2005). Part of the Outstanding Dissertations Series of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Full Text

Case Studies and Teaching Materials

The Femern Fixed Link: A Case Study in the Optimization of Construction Contracts (with Daniel Alterbaum, Richard R. W. Brooks and Henrik Lando), Yale School of Management Case No. 10-040 (2011). Full Text

Working Papers

Negligence-Based Proportional Liability: How More Lenient Sanctions Lead to Higher Compliance, UCLA School of Law, Law & Economics Working Paper 12-10 (2012). Full Text

Breach Remedies Inducing Hybrid Investments (with Daniel Göller), Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 72 (2011). (Revise and resubmit International Review of Law and Economics) Full Text

Plaintiffs Exploiting Plaintiffs, SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 224 (2010). (revise and resubmit Games and Economics Behavior) Full Text

Insolvency and Biased Standards - The Case for Proportional Liability (with Avraham D. Tabbach), Yale Law School Faculty And Affiliate Scholarship Series. Paper 24 (2009). Full Text

Work in Progress

Negligence-Based Proportional Liability – How More Lenient Sanctions Lead to Higher Compliance.

Surprise Bonus Schemes in Large Construction Projects – An Experimental Study.

Why People Keep Promises (joint with Florian Ederer).

Bilateral Breach (joint with Richard R.W. Brooks).

Economic Incentives and the Date of Birth – An Empirical Study (joint with Andreas Roider, and Uwe Sunde).

Pricing under Different Warranty Regimes.

Contract Theory and Contract Law (Book Project, joint with Richard R.W. Brooks).

Co-Authors

Daniel Alterbaum; Richard R.W. Brooks; Gregor Christandl; Georg Eckert; Florian Ederer; Daniel Göller; Kristoffel Grechenig; Henrik Lando; Andreas Roider; Uwe Sunde; Avraham Tabbach; Stephan Tontrup