Social Welfare Law

Steven Shavell, When Is Compliance with the Law Socially Desirable?, 41 J. Legal Stud. 1 (2012).

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

Mary Ann Glendon, Rights in Twentieth Century Constitutions, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 519 (1992).

Mark Tushnet, Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Guarantees, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 5852 (N.J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds., 2001).

Lucie E. White, Closing the Care Gap That Welfare Reform Left Behind, 577 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2001).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, The Conflict Between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle, 1 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 63 (1999).

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Principles of Fairness Versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper…

Louis Kaplow, Why Measure Inequality?, 3 J. Econ. Ineq. 65 (2005).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Any Non‐welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle, 109 J. Pol. Econ. 281 (2001).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Any Non‐welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply, 112 J. Pol. Econ. 249 (2004).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Notions of Fairness versus the Pareto Principle: On the Role of Logical Consistency, 110 Yale L.J. 237 (2000).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences, 8 B.E. J. Econ. Analysis & Pol’y art. 40 (2008).

Joseph W. Singer, The Reliance Interest in Property, 40 Stan. L. Rev. 611 (1988).

Frank I. Michelman, Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away, 6 Int’l J. Const. L. 663 (2008).

Elizabeth Bartholet, Contested Child Protection Policies, in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (James G. Dwyer ed., 2020).

Crystal Yang and Will Dobbie, The Economic Costs of Pretrial Detention, 2021 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 251 (2021).

Martha Minow, Are Rights Right for Children?, 12 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 203 (1987) (reviewing Robert H. Mnookin, Robert A. Burt, David L. Chambers,…

Martha Minow, Consider the Consequences, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 900 (1986) (reviewing Lenore J. Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for…

Martha Minow, Choice or Commonality: Welfare and Schooling After the End of Welfare as We Knew It, 49 Duke L.J. 493 (1999).

Louis Kaplow, A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy, 73 Nat’l Tax J. 429 (2020).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness Versus Welfare (Harvard Univ. Press 2006).