Civil Practice & Procedure

J. Mark Ramseyer, Products Liability through Private Ordering: Notes on a Japanese Experiment, 144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1823 (1996).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015).

J. Mark. Ramseyer, Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth (Cambridge Univ. Press 1996).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Liability for Defective Products: Comparative Hypotheses and Evidence from Japan, 61 Am. J. Comp. L. 617 (2013).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Formal Legal System: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Data in Japan, 7 J. Legal Analysis 421 (2015).

Lisa Bernstein, Alan Morrison & J. Mark Ramseyer, Private Orderings, 7 J. Legal Analysis 247 (2015).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan, 11 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 39 (2014).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan, 32 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 38 (2012).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 571 (1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence, in The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law 69…

Rachel A. Viscomi, A Mirror to Help Us Improve: Reflecting on Roselle Wissler’s Court-Connected Mediation in General Civil Cases: What We Know from Empirical Research,…

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

Hal S. Scott, Territorial Settlements: A Survey of Scholarly Literature and History (Harvard Public Law Working Paper, forthcoming 2026).

Joseph William Singer, Against Choice-of-Law Clauses, 60 Willamette Law Review 557 (2025).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Remedies for Non-Disclosure in Asset Sales: Voidance vs. Damages (Law & Economics Working Papers No. 301, 2025).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Liability for Non-Disclosure in IPOs, 42 The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 281 (2025).

Xinyu Hua & Kathryn E. Spier, Holding Platforms Liable, 17 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 68 (2025).

Daniel M. Klerman & Holger Spamann, Law Matters — Less Than We Thought, J. L., Econ., & Org. (2022).

Jared A. Ellias & Elisabeth de Fontenay, Law and Courts in an Age of Debt, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev 2025 (2023).

Kevin E. Davis & Mariana Pargendler, Contract Law and Inequality in the Global South: Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa, in Legal Heterodoxy in the Global…