Litigation & Settlement

William B. Rubenstein, Why Enable Litigation?: A Positive Externalities Theory of the Small Claims Class Action, 74 UMKC L. Rev. 709 (2006).

William B. Rubenstein, Procedure and Society: An Essay for Steve Yeazell, 61 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 136 (2013).

William B. Rubenstein, The Fairness Hearing: Adversarial and Regulatory Approaches, 53 UCLA L. Rev. 1435 (2006).

William B. Rubenstein, Divided We Litigate: Addressing Disputes Among Group Members and Lawyers in Civil Rights Campaigns, 106 Yale L.J. 1623 (1997).

Vicki C. Jackson, Susan Deller Ross, et al., Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and…

Steven Shavell, Settlement of Litigation May Increase or Decrease Deterrence and Social Welfare (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 34878, 2026).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages, in 3 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 192 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages, in II Encyclopedia of Law and Economics 764 (Boudewijn Bouckaert & Gerritt De Geest eds., 2000).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Punitive Damages: An Economic Perspective, in 13 Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert (Roman L. Weil,…

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Public Enforcement of Law, in 3 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 178 (Peter Newman ed.,…

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Law: Economics of its Public Enforcement, in 12 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8510 (Neil J.

Steven Shavell, Causation and Tort Liability, in 1 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 211 (Peter Newman ed., 1998).

Steven Shavell, Law and Economics, in 12 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8446 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds., 2001).

Steven Shavell, Reply to a Comment on The Appeals Process as a Means of Error Correction, 2 Legal Theory 83 (1996).

Steven Shavell, The Judgment Proof Problem, 6 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 45 (1986).

David Rosenberg & Steven Shavell, A Model in Which Suits are Brought for Their Nuisance Value, 5 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 3 (1985).

Steven Shavell, On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles, 49 J. Legal Stud. 243 (2020).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven M. Shavell, Public Enforcement of Law, in 1 Handbook of Law and Economics 403 (A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven M.

Steven M. Shavell, Liability for Accidents, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume eds., 2nd ed. 2008).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Subrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered (Stanford Law & Econ. Olin…

Steven Shavell, Legal Advice, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman ed., 1998).