Law & Economics

Duncan Kennedy, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Debtor Protection Rules in Subprime Market Default Situations, in Building Assets, Building Credit 266 (Nicolas Retsinas & Eric Belsky eds.,…

David Rosenberg, The Judicial Posner on Negligence versus Strict Liability: Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co. v. American Cyanamid Co., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1210 (2007).

David Rosenberg, Avoiding Duplicative Litigation of Similar Claims: The Superiority of Class Action vs. Collateral Estoppel vs. Standard Claims Market (Harv. L. Sch. L. &…

David Rosenberg & Steven Shavell, A Solution to the Problem of Nuisance Suits: The Option to Have the Court Bar Settlement, 26 Int’l Rev. L.

David Rosenberg, Decoupling Deterrence and Compensation Functions in Mass Tort Class Actions for Future Loss, 88 Va. L. Rev. 1871 (2002).

David Rosenberg & Steven M. Shavell, A Simple Proposal to Halve Litigation Costs, 91 Va. L. Rev. 1721 (2005).

David Rosenberg, Individual Justice and Collectivizing Risk-Based Claims in Mass-Exposure Cases, 71 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 210 (1996).

David Rosenberg, Mass Tort Class Actions: What Defendants Have and Plaintiffs Don’t, 37 Harv. J. on Legis. 393 (2000).

Robert J. Jackson, Jr. & David Rosenberg, A New Method of Random Sampling to Reduce the Cost of Regulatory Monitoring (Harv. L. Sch. L. &…

Christine Desan, The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity: A Constitutional Analysis, 86 Law & Contemp. Probs. 77 (2024).

Christine A. Desan, Coin Reconsidered: The Political Alchemy of Commodity Money, 11 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 361 (2010).

Christine A. Desan, From Blood to Profit: The Transformation of Value in the American Constitutional Tradition, 20 J. Pol’y Hist. 26 (2008).

Christine A. Desan, Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor, in The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History 269…

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Institution, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang…

Christine A. Desan, Creation Stories: Myths About the Origins of Money (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper 13-20, Jul. 30, 2013).

Christine A. Desan, Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism, in 2 Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods –…

Christine A. Desan, Contesting the Character of the Political Economy: Rights and Remedies in the Early Republic, in The House and Senate in the 1790s:…

Christine A. Desan, The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1 (2005).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Lawyers, Economics, and the Regulated Industries: Thoughts on Professional Roles Inspired by Some Recent Economic Literature, 70 Mich. L. Rev. 195 (1971)(reviewing…

Bruce L. Hay, & Kathryn E. Spier, Settlement of Litigation, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 442 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

Bruce L. Hay & Kathryn E. Spier, Burdens of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Economic Perspective, in 2 The Economics of Evidence, Procedure, and Litigation…