Books
Cases and Materials on Torts
(with Ward Farnsworth).
3rd ed.
Aspen Publishers (2009).
Supplement: 1996. With Teacher’s Manual.
The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity
(edited by Mark F. Grady and Francesco Parisi).
Cambridge University Press (2005).
Articles and Chapters
Causation and Foreseeability, in
Research Handbook on the Economic Analysis of Torts
(edited by Jennifer H. Arlen, Edgar Elgar Publishing, forthcoming, 2013).
Full Text
Unavoidable Accident, 5(1)
Review of Law & Economics
Article 9
(2009).
Full Text
Harold Demsetz, in
Pioneers of Law and Economics
(edited by Lloyd Cohen & Josh Wright, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009).
The Paradox of the Negligence Rule, in
Internationalization of the Law and its Economic Analysis
(edited by Thomas Eger et al., Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, 2008).
Chimpanzee Autarky (lead author with Sarah F. Brosan, other co-authors Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro, and Michael J. Beran),
PLoS ONE
(2008).
Full Text
The Free Radicals of Tort, 11
Supreme Court Economic Review
189-218
(2004).
Full Text
Proximate Cause Decoded, 50
UCLA Law Review
293-335
(2002).
Abstract
The State and the Networked Economy, 25
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
25
(2001).
Two Visionary Deans of George Mason Law School, 33
University of Toledo Law Review
59-65
(2001).
The Nature of Constitutions (with M. T. McGuire),
1
Journal of Bioeconomics
227
(1999).
Full Text
Efficient Negligence, 87
Georgetown Law Journal
397-419
(1998).
BMW v. Gore: Mitigating the Punitive Economics of Punitive Damages (with Paul H. Rubin and John E. Calfee),
5
Supreme Court Economic Review
179
(1997).
Full Text
A Theory of the Origin of Natural Law (with M. T. McGuire),
8
Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues
87-129
(1997).
Accident Law Seeks to Limit Insurance Effects, 1
Michigan Law & Policy Review
11
(1996).
Legal Evolution and Precedent, 3
Annual Review of Law & Ethics
147
(1995).
Politicization of Commodities: The Case of Cadaveric Organs, 20
Journal of Corporation Law
51-68
(1995).
Positive Theories and Grown-Order Conceptions of the Law, 23
Southwestern University Law Review
461-67
(1994).
A Positive Economic Theory of the Right of Publicity, 1
UCLA Entertainment Law Review
97
(1994).
Reprinted in
Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook 159 (edited by J. Viera, R. Thorne & S. Breimer, Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1994).
Modern Accident Law Does Not Fit Corrective Justice Theory, 7
Annual Review of Law & Ethics
2
(1994).
Res Ipsa Loquitur and Compliance Error, 142
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
887-947
(1994).
Reprinted in
Perspectives on Tort Law 238 (edited by Robert L. Rabin, Little Brown, 1995).
Better Medicine Causes More Lawsuits, and New Administrative Courts Will Not Solve the Problem, 86
Northwestern University Law Review
1068
(1992).
Reviewing
Medical Malpractice on Trial, by Paul C. Weiler.
Toward a Positive Economic Theory of Antitrust, 30
Economic Inquiry
225
(April, 1992).
Patent Law and Rent Dissipation (with Jay Alexander),
78
Virginia Law Review
305-50
(1992).
Multiple Tortfeasors and the Economy of Prevention, 19
Journal of Legal Studies
653-78
(1990).
A Positive Theory of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine (with Ronald J. Allen and Daniel Polsby),
19
Journal of Legal Studies
359
(1990).
Punitive Damages and Subjective States of Mind A Positive Economic Theory, 40
Alabama Law Review
1197-1225
(1989).
Untaken Precautions, 18
Journal of Legal Studies
139-56
(1989).
Tort Reform: An Economic Approach, 2
Journal of Forensic Economics
1
(1988).
Why Are People Negligent?: Technology, Nondurable Precautions, and the Medical Malpractice Explosion, 82
Northwestern University Law Review
293-334
(1988).
Discontinuities and Information Burdens, 56
George Washington Law Review
658
(1988).
Reviewing
The Economic Structure of Tort Law, by William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner.
Common Law Control of Strategic Behavior: Railroad Sparks and the Farmer, 17
Journal of Legal Studies
15-42
(1988).
Proximate Cause and the Law of Negligence, 69
Iowa Law Review
363-449
(1984).
A New Positive Economic Theory of Negligence, 92
Yale Law Journal
799
(1983).
Regulating Information Advertising Overview, in
The Federal Trade Commission Since 1970: Economic Analysis and Bureaucratic Behavior
(edited by K. W. Clarkson & T. J. Muris, Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Other
Commentary on Entry Restrictions and Practice Restrictions, in
Occupational Licensure and Regulation
155-57
(edited by S. Rottenberg, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Reseach, 1980).
Regulating Funerals, 2
Regulation
11-12
(Sept./Oct. 1978).
FTC Policy Planning Protocol for Deceptive and Unsubstantiated Advertising Claims, (1975).
Reprinted in
Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection: Cases and Comments 547-550 (edited by Oppenheim et al., 4th ed., West Publishing, 1983).