Legal Theory & Philosophy

Steven Shavell, Legal Advice About Contemplated Acts: The Decision to Obtain Advice, Its Social Desirability, and Protection of Confidentiality, 17 J. Legal Stud. 123 (1988).

Steven Shavell, Suit, Settlement, and Trial: A Theoretical Analysis under Alternative Methods for the Allocation of Legal Costs, 11 J. Legal Stud. 55 (1982).

Steven Shavell, Specific Versus General Enforcement of Law, 99 J. Pol. Econ. 1088 (1991).

Steven Shavell, Liability for Harm versus Regulation of Safety, 13 J. Legal Stud. 357 (1984).

Steven Shavell, On the Social Function and the Regulation of Liability Insurance, 25 Geneva Papers on Risk & Ins. 166 (2000).

Steven Shavell, On Moral Hazard and Insurance, 93 Q. J. Econ. 541 (1979).

Steven Shavell, The Level of Litigation: Private Versus Social Optimality of Suit and of Settlement, 19 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 99 (1999).

Steven Shavell, The Optimal Structure of Law Enforcement, 36 J.L. Econ. 255 (1993).

Steven Shavell, The Design of Contracts and Remedies for Breach, 99 Q. J. Econ. 121 (1984).

Scott Brewer, Interactive Virtue and Vice in Systems of Arguments: A Logocratic Analysis, 28 Artificial Intelligence & L. 151 (2020).

Scott Brewer, Indefeasible Analogical Argument, in Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse 33 (Hendrik Kaptein & Bastiaan van der Velden eds., 2018).

Scott Brewer, Agonophobia (Fear of Contest) In the Theory of Argument?: The Case of Gary Lawson’s Evidence of the Law, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 2303…

Scott Brewer, Speech: “The Examined Life of the Law,” The Law Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (March 2002).

Scott Brewer, Socrates and Jurisprudence, Regional Symposium on Contemplative Practice in Higher Education, Amherst College (May 2003).

Scott Brewer, Intellectual Integrity in the Legal Process, Provost’s Lecture, SUNY Stony Brook (Spring 2003).

Scott Brewer, Is Philosophy in Evidence?, Conference Culture and Inference (Spring 2003).

Scott Brewer, Quelques Raisonnements Theoriques sur des Raisonnements Pratiques a Propos du Rasionnement Theorique, in Fondements Naturels de l’Ethique 267 (Jean-Pierre Changeux ed., Editions Odile…

Scott Brewer, Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: Logic, Probability, and Presumptions…

Scott Brewer, Pragmatism, Oppression, and the Flight to Substance, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: Evolution and Revolution in Theories of Legal Reasoning 105 (Scott…

Scott Brewer, Rational Force of Legal Argument by Anthology, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning 49 (Scott Brewer ed., Garland 1998).

Scott Brewer, Traversing Holmes’ Path Toward a Jurisprudence of Logical Form, in “The Path of the Law” and Its Influence: The Legacy of Oliver Wendell…