Private Law

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

Andrew S. Gold & Henry E. Smith, Legal Concepts as a Deep Structure of the Law: Reinach’s A Priori in Action, in Reinach and the…

Tyler R. Giannini, Political Legitimacy and Private Governance of Human Rights: Community-Business Social Contracts and Constitutional Moments, in Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a…

Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (Marietta Auer, Paul B. Miller, Henry E. Smith et al. eds., forthcoming 2025).

Andrew S. Gold & Henry E. Smith, Sizing up Private Law, 70 U. Toronto L.J. 389 (2020).

C. Alexander Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, What Makes Private Law Transitions Succeed: Lessons from Japan and from Around the World, 33 J. Transnat’l L.

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

Laura Weinrib, From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law, 34 L. & Soc. Inquiry 187…

Cass R. Sunstein, Incommensurability and Valuation in Law, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 779 (1994).

Cass R. Sunstein, Standing and the Privatization of Public Law, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 1432 (1988).

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…

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

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).

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…

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).