Litigation & Settlement

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Suing Solely to Extract a Settlement Offer, 17 J. Legal Stud. 437 (1988).

Louis Kaplow, Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures: Antitrust, Title VII Disparate Impact, and Constitutional Law Strict Scrutiny, 167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1375 (2019).

Louis Kaplow, Note, The Theoretical Foundation of the Hearsay Rules, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 1786 (1980).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Multistage Adjudication, 33 J.L. Econ. & Org. 613 (2017).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Design of Private Litigation, J. Pub. Econ., Nov. 2017, at 64.

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Legal Advice About Acts Already Committed, 10 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 149 (1990).

Louis Kaplow, The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis, 23 J. Legal Stud. 307 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Shifting Plaintiffs Fees Versus Increasing Damage Awards, 24 Rand J. Econ. 625 (1993).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Property Rules Versus Liability Rules: An Economic Analysis, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 713 (1996).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Accuracy in the Assessment of Damages, 39 J.L. & Econ. 191 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Private Versus Social Costs in Bringing Suit, 15 J. Legal Stud. 371 (1986).

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Legal Advice About Information to Present in Litigation: Its Effects and Social Desirability, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 565 (1989).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Comment, Do Liability Rules Facilitate Bargaining? A Reply to Ayres and Talley, 105 Yale L.J. 221 (1995).

Xinyu Hua & Kathryn E. Spier, Settling Lawsuits with Pirates (Aug. 6, 2020).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation, 108 Am. Econ. Rev. 3626 (2018).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Class Actions and Private Antitrust Litigation, 14 Am. Econ. J.: Microeconomics 131 (2022).

Kathryn E. Spier, Economics of Litigation, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume eds., 2d ed. 2008).

Kathryn E. Spier & J.J. Prescott, Contracting on Litigation (Univ. Mich. Law & Econ. Research Paper No. 16-009, Apr. 8, 2016).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation (Va. Law & Econ. Research Paper No. 3, Nov.

Kathryn E. Spier, A Note on Joint and Several Liability: Insolvency, Settlement, and Incentives, 23 J. Legal Stud. 559 (1994).

Kathryn E. Spier, ‘Tied to the Mast’: Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement Contracts, 32 J. Legal Stud. 91 (2003).