Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Steven M. Shavell, Do Excessive Legal Standards Discourage Desirable Activity?, 95 Econ. Letters 394 (2007).

Steven Shavell, The Optimal Structure of Law Enforcement, 36 J.L. Econ. 255 (1993).

Steven Shavell, An Analysis of Causation and the Scope of Liability in the Law of Torts, 9 J. Legal Stud. 463 (1980).

Steven Shavell, A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation, 42 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 13 (2015).

Steven Shavell, Eminent Domain versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperfect Information about Owners’ Valuations, 53 J.L. & Econ. 1 (2010).

Steven Shavell, Strict Liability versus Negligence, 9 J. Legal Stud. 1 (1980).

Steven Shavell, Sharing Risks of Deferred Payment, 84 J. Pol. Econ. 161 (1976).

Steven M. Shavell, On the Proper Magnitude of Punitive Damages: Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging, Inc., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1223 (2007).

Steven Shavell, Corrective Taxation versus Liability, Am. Econ. Rev., May 2011, at 273.

Steven Shavell, Do Managers Use Their Information Efficiently?, 68 Am. Econ. Rev. 935 (1978).

Steven M. Shavell, On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering, 37 J. Legal Stud. 37 (2008).

Steven Shavell, The Design of Contracts and Remedies for Breach, 99 Q. J. Econ. 121 (1984).

Steven Shavell, Torts in Which Victim and Injurer Act Sequentially, 26 J.L. & Econ. 589 (1983).

Steven Shavell, Damage Measures for Breach of Contract, 11 Bell J. Econ. 466 (1980).

Steven Shavell, Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Principal and Agent Relationship, 10 Bell J. Econ. 55 (1979).

Steven M. Shavell, On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts, 22 J.L. Econ. & Org. 289 (2006).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Amenities and Property Values in a Model of an Urban Area, 5 J. Pub. Econ. 119 (1976).

Susan H. Farbstein, Reflections on the Question of When, if Ever, Violence is Justified in Struggles for Social or Political Change, 27 Harv. Hum. Rts.

Scott Brewer, Interactive Virtue and Vice in Systems of Arguments: A Logocratic Analysis, 28 Artificial Intelligence & L. 151 (2020).

Scott Brewer, Indefeasible Analogical Argument, in Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse 33 (Hendrik Kaptein & Bastiaan van der Velden eds., 2018).

Scott Brewer, Agonophobia (Fear of Contest) In the Theory of Argument?: The Case of Gary Lawson’s Evidence of the Law, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 2303…