Books
Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology
(with Stephen R. Munzer).
Yale University Press (2007).
Negotiation Theory and Strategy.
Aspen Law & Business (2002).
With Teacher's Manual and
Simulation Exercises for Negotiation Theory and Strategy.
Articles and Chapters
Relative Value Health Insurance: The Behavioral Law and Economics Solution to the Health Care Cost Crisis,
Michigan Law Review
(forthcoming, 2013).
Full Text
The Borat Problem in Negotiation: Fraud, Assent, and the Behavioral Law And Economics of Standard Form Contracts, 101
California Law Review
51-106
(2013).
Libertarian Welfarism, 97
California Law Review
1651-85
(2009).
Full Text
Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations? (with Joseph W. Doherty),
11
American Law and Economics Review
162-208
(2009).
Against Integrative Bargaining, 58
Case Western Reserve Law Review
1323-42
(2008).
Reprogrammed Stem Cells and Federal Funding of Embryo Research, 45
Willamette Law Review
31-39
(2008).
Recent Developments in the 'Stem Cell Century': Implications for Embryo Research, Egg Donor Compensation, and Stem Cell Patents,
UCLA School of Law Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper 08-21
(2008).
Full Text
Stem Cell Research and the Cloning Wars, 18
Stanford Law and Policy Review
161
(2007).
Full Text
'No Compensation' or 'Pro Compensation': Moore v. Regents and Default Rules for Human Tissue Donations,
Journal of Health Law
1-27
(2007).
Buying and Selling Human Tissues for Stem Cell Research, 49
Arizona Law Review
45-67
(2007).
Full Text
Autonomy and Informed Consent in Nontherapeutic Biomedical Research, 54
UCLA Law Review
605-30
(2007).
Full Text
Exploring the Link Between Domestic Conflicts and Negotiation Failure in the Middle East, 6
Nevada Law Journal
388-400
(2006).
Embryonic Histrionics: A Critical Evaluation of the Bush Stem Cell Funding Policy and the Congressional Alternative, 47
Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology
1-29
(2006).
Full Text
Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution (with co-authors),
in
Heuristics and the Law
(edited by Gerd Gigerenzer & Christophe Engle, MIT Press, 2006).
The Problems with Heuristics for Law, in
Heuristics and the Law
(edited by Gerd Gigerenzer & Christophe Engle, MIT Press, 2006).
Full Text
Psychological Impediments to Mediation Success, 21
Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution
281-327
(2006).
Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution.
Harnessing the Positive Power of Rankings: A Response to Posner and Sunstein, 81
Indiana Law Journal
35-45
(2006).
Keynote address at symposium on educational rankings.
Full Text
Stem Cell Research and the Law (with Stephen R. Munzer),
UCLA School of Law Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper
(2006).
Full Text
Possibility and Plausibility in Law and Economics, 32
Florida State University Law Review
781-95
(2005).
Full Text
The Role of Law in Settlement, in
The Handbook of Dispute Resolution
(edited by Robert Bordone & Michael Moffitt, Jossey-Bass, 2005).
Full Text
Roadblocks to the Road Map: A Negotiation Theory Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict After Yasser Arafat (with Jonathan Zasloff),
30
Yale Journal of International Law
1-80
(2005).
Full Text
The Battle Over Self-Insured Health Plans, Or One Good Loophole Deserves Another, 1
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
89-136
(2005).
Full Text
A "Traditional" and "Behavioral" Law-and-Economics Analysis of Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., 26
Hawaii Law Review
441
(2004).
Full Text
Bargaining Power as Threat of Impasse, 87
Marquette Law Review
867-71
(2004).
Full Text
Heuristics and Biases at the Bargaining Table (with Christopher P. Guthrie),
87
Marquette Law Review
795-808
(2004).
Full Text
The Law of Bargaining (with Michael Moffitt and Nancy Welsh),
87
Marquette Law Review
839-845
(2004).
Full Text
The Failed Jurisprudence of Managed Care, and How to Fix It, 51
UCLA Law Review
457-537
(2003).
Full Text
Bounded Rationality, Standard Form Contracts, and Unconscionability, 70
University of Chicago Law Review
1203-95
(2003).
Full Text
The Endowment Effect and Legal Analysis, 97
Northwestern University Law Review
1227-93
(2003).
Full Text
Empirical Scholarship in Contract Law: Possibilities and Pitfalls, 2002
University of Illinois Law Review
1033-66
(2002).
Full Text
Aspirations and Settlement, 88
Cornell Law Review
1-61
(2002).
Full Text
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Legal Scholarship: Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Evolutionary Psychology, 41
Jurimetrics Journal
319-336
(2001).
Full Text
Behavioral Analysis and Legal Form: Rules vs. Standards Revisited, 79
Oregon Law Review
23
(2000).
Symposium on New and Critical Approaches to Law and Economics.
Law and Behavioral Science: Removing the Rationality Assumption from Law and Economics (with Thomas Ulen),
88
California Law Review
1051-1144
(2000).
Full Text
A Positive Theory of Legal Negotiation, 88
Georgetown Law Journal
1789-1831
(2000).
Full Text
Behavioral Economics, Contract Formation, and Contract Law, in
Behavioral Law and Economics
(edited by Cass R. Sunstein, Cambridge University Press, 2000).
The Efficiency of Managed Care "Patient Protection: Laws: Incomplete Contracts, Bounded Rationality, and Market Failure, 85
Cornell Law Review
1-88
(1999).
Full Text
Ranking Journals: Some Thoughts on Theory and Methodology, 26
Florida State University Law Review
851-76
(1999).
In Praise of Law School Rankings: Solutions to Coordination and Collective Action Problems, 77
Texas Law Review
403-28
(1998).
Full Text
Physician-Assisted Suicide Legislation: Issues and Preliminary Responses, 12
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
449-72
(1998).
Determining Health Care Rights from Behind the Veil of Ignorance, 1998
University of Illinois Law Review
801-36
(1998).
Abstract
Inertia and Preference in Contract Negotiation: The Psychological Power of Default Rules and Form Contracts, 51
Vanderbilt Law Review
1583-1651
(1998).
Full Text
Efficiency and Equity: What Can Be Gained by Combining Coase and Rawls? (with Thomas Ulen),
73
Washington Law Review
329-48
(1998).
Full Text
The Status Quo Bias and Contract Default Rules, 83
Cornell Law Review
608-87
(1998).
Full Text
Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer (with Chris Guthrie),
76
Texas Law Review
77-141
(1997).
Full Text
The Local Politics of Acid Rain: Public Versus Private Decisionmaking and the Dormant Commerce Clause in a New Era of Environmental Law, 75
Boston University Law Review
689-758
(1995).
Psychological Barriers to Litigation Settlement: An Experimental Approach (with Chris Guthrie),
93
Michigan Law Review
107-92
(1994).
Opening Offers and Out of Court Settlement: A Little Moderation May Not Go a Long Way (with Chris Guthrie),
10
Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution
1-22
(1994).
Sulfur Dioxide and the Constitution: Legal Doctrine and State Responses to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 13
Stanford Environmental Law Journal
349-400
(1994).
Policymaking and the Offer/Asking Price Gap: Toward a Theory of Efficient Entitlement Allocation, 46
Stanford Law Review
663-708
(1994).
The Politics of Disfranchisement in George, 74
Georgia Historical Quarterly
20
(1990).
Other
The Stem Cell Initiative, Sabotaged,
Los Angeles Times
at B13
(March 2, 2006).
Sell an Organ, Save a Life,
Los Angeles Times
at M5
(Oct. 30, 2005).
Rojas: Balancing Confidentiality and Disclosure, 3(4)
SCMA News
4-5
(August/September 2004).
Sacramento's Game of Chicken,
Los Angeles Times
at B13
(July 1, 2003).
Put Some Bite Into a "Land for Peace" Deal,
Los Angeles Times
at M5
(April 14, 2002).
Stage is Set for a Patients' Rights Bill that Works,
Los Angeles Times
at B14
(Aug. 7, 2001).
Keep Marital Status Out of the Tax Code,
Los Angeles Times
at B7
(July 24, 2000).
HMOs Get Authority to Strike a Fair Balance,
Los Angeles Times
at B9
(June 14, 2000).
States' Rights Backers Show Hypocrisy,
Dallas Morning News
at 13A
(Nov. 16, 1999).
Physician-Assisted Suicide Bill is Hypocritical,
Austin American-Statesman
(Nov. 2, 1999).
Legislative Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide, University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs Policy Forum, (April, 1998).
Commentary, High Court charged Approach in Assisted-Suicide Ruling,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
at 3B
(July 27, 1997).
Negotiation Strategy: Can the Opening Offer Ever Be Too High?,
Conflict Management
at 1
(1996).