Private Law

Cass R. Sunstein, Legal Interference with Private Preferences, 53 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1129 (1986).

John Morley & Robert Sitkoff, Trust Law: Private Ordering and the Branching of American Trust Law, in The Oxford Handbook of New Private Law (Andrew…

Oren Bar-Gill & Ariel Porat, Harm-Benefit Interactions, 16 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 86 (2014).

Morton J. Horwitz, The History of the Public/Private Distinction, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1423 (1982).

Mark Tushnet, Constitutional Law, Private Law, and Economic and Social Rights, in The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Malcolm Langford & Katharine Young…

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 7 Jurisprudence 355 (2016)(reviewing Jean Thomas, Public Rights, Private Relations (2015)).

Laurence H. Tribe, Constitutional Calculus: Equal Justice or Economic Efficiency?, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 592 (1985).

Oren Bar-Gill & Lucian A. Bebchuk, Consent and Exchange, 39 J. Legal Stud. 375 (2010).

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

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

Joseph W. Singer, Democratic Property: Things We Should not Have to Bargain For, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory 220 (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin…

John C. P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Tort Theory, Private Attorneys General, and State Action: From Mass Torts to Texas S.B. 8, J. Tort…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan, 14 J. Japanese Stud. 111 (1988).

Howell E. Jackson & Mark J. Roe., Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence, 93 J. Fin. Econ. 207 (2009).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, The Architecture of Property, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky eds., 2020).

Henry E. Smith, Equity as Second-Order Law: The Problem of Opportunism (Jan. 15, 2015).

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).