Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Allocazione del Rischio tra Clausola Penali e Autonomia Contrattuale, 50 Rivista di Diritto Civile II, 309-325 (2009)
– La Babele dell'AEL e il Diritto Penale, 20 Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Penale dell'Economia 45-71 (2007)
– Interesse Positivo, Interesse Negativo e Incentivi nella Responsabilità Contrattuale: Un'Analisi Economica e Comparata, 54 Rivista di Diritto Civile 218-242 (2008)
– Prefazione, in Angelo Mangione, Analisi Economica del Diritto Penale e Criminalità Organizzata (Monforte, 2009)
– The Mostly Unintended Effects of Mandatory Penalties: Two Centuries of Consistent Findings, 38 Crime and Justice 65 (2009)
– Demographic Impact Statements, O'Connor's Warning, and the Mysteries of Prison Release: Topics from a Sentencing Reform Agenda, 61 Florida Law Review 683 (2009)
– The Enforceability of Sentencing Guidelines, 58 Stanford Law Review 155 (2005)
– Don't Blame Determinacy: U.S. Incarceration Growth Has Been Driven by Other Forces, 84 Texas Law Review 1787 (2006)
– Optimal Timing of Legal Intervention: The Role of Timing Rules, 122 Harvard Law Review Forum 18 (2009)
– Beyond Liability: Correcting Optimism Bias Through Tort Law, 35 Queen's Law Journal 47-66 (2009); translated into Spanish, Mas alla de la Responsabilidad: Corrigiendo el sesgo de optimismo a traves de la responsabilidad extracontractual, 40 Ius et Veritas 30-43 (2010)
– The Economics of Treaty Ratification, 5 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 209 (2009)
– Functional Law and Economics, in Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Mark D. White, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009)
– Professional and Personal Responsibilities of the Lawyer (Foundation Press, 1st ed., 1997; 2d ed., 2001; 3d ed., 2011)
– The Fall and Rise of Functional Property, in Property Rights Dynamics: A Law and Economics Perspective 19-39 (Donatella Porrini & Gionvanni Ramello, eds., Routledge, 2007)
– Entropy and the Asymmetric Coase Theorem, in Property Rights Dynamics: A Law and Economics Perspective 54-76 (Donatella Porrini & Giovanni Ramello, eds., Routledge, 2007)
– The Economics of Legal Harmonization in European Tort Law, in European Tort Law: Eastern and Western Perspectives 103-120 (Mauro Bussani, ed., Stämpfli, 2007)
– Bargaining for Legal Harmonization: Jurisdictional Competition and Legal Obsolescence, in Internationalisierung des Rechts und seine ökonomische Analyse: Festschrift für Hans-Bernd Schäfer zum 65 339-352 (Thomas Eger, Jochen Bigus, Claus Ott & Georg Wangenheim, eds., Gabler, 2008)
– An Economic Analysis of the CISG, in CISG Methodology 151-170 (André Janssen & Olaf Meyer, eds., Sellier European Law Publishers, 2009)
– A Law and Economics Perspective on Precontractual Liability, in Precontractual Liability in European Private Law 431-448 (John Cartwright & Martijn Willem Hesselink, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2008)
– A Law and Economics Perspective on Terrorism, 128 Public Choice 147-168 (2006), reprinted in The Political Economy of Terrorism (Charles K. Rowley, ed., Springer, 2007) and Criminal Law and Economics (Nuno Garoupa, ed., Edward Elgar, 2009)
– Legal Innovation and the Compliance Paradox, 9 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 837-860 (2008)
– The Formation of International Treaties, 3 Review of Law & Economics 37-60 (2007)
– The Hidden Bias of the Vienna Convention on the International Law of Treaties, 4 Review of Law & Economics 383-406 (2008)
– Judicial Precedents in Civil Law Systems: A Dynamic Analysis, 26 International Review of Law and Economics 519-535 (2006), reprinted in The Economics of Judicial Behaviour (L. Epstein, ed., Edward Elgar, 2013); translated into Spanish, Los Precedentes Judiciales en los Sistemas del Civil Law: Un Analisis Dinamico, 4 Jurisprudencia - Revista de Analisis Especializado de Jurisprudencia 481-501 (2008)
– On the Optimal Specificity of Legal Rules, 3 Journal of Institutional Economics 147-164 (2007); translated into Japanese, 15 Hokkaido Journal of New Global Law and Policy 319-343 (2012)
– Creating Failures in the Market for Tax Planning, 26 Virginia Tax Review 943 (2007)
– The Comparative Law and Economics of Pure Economic Loss, 27 International Review of Law and Economics 29-48 (2007), reprinted in Economics of Comparative Law (Gerrit de Geest, ed., Edward Elgar, 2009)
– Causation and Responsibility: The Compensation Principle from Grotius to Calabresi, 64 Maryland Law Review 108-135 (2005)