Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Legal Advice About Information to Present in Litigation: Its Effects and Social Desirability, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 565 (1989).

Louis Kaplow, Likelihood Ratio Tests and Legal Decision Rules, 16 Am. L. and Econ. Rev. 1 (2014).

Louis Kaplow, Primary Goods, Capabilities, . . . Or Well-Being?, 116 Phil. Rev. 603 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on the Optimal Use of Nonmonetary Sanctions, 42 J. Pub. Econ. 245 (1990).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Distribution and the Family, 98 Scandinavian J. Econ. 75 (1996).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Comment, Do Liability Rules Facilitate Bargaining? A Reply to Ayres and Talley, 105 Yale L.J. 221 (1995).

Louis Kaplow, Public Goods and the Distribution of Income, 50 Eur. Econ. Rev. 1627 (2006).

Louis Kaplow, Why (Ever) Define Markets?, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 437 (2010).

Louis Kaplow, Information and the Aim of Adjudication: Truth or Consequences?, 67 Stan. L. Rev. 1303 (2015).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Optimal Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting of Behavior, 102 J. Pol. Econ. 583 (1994).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 29…

Louis Kaplow, Antitrust, Law and Economics, and the Courts, 50 Law & Contemp. Probs. 181 (1987).

Louis Kaplow, Income-Tax Deductions For Losses as Insurance, 82 Am. Econ. Rev. 1013 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action, 94 Scandinavian J. Econ. 525 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Extension of Monopoly Power Through Leverage, 85 Colum. L. Rev. 515 (1985).

Louis Kaplow, How Tax Complexity and Enforcement Affect the Equity and Efficiency of the Income Tax, 49 Nat’l Tax J. 135 (1996).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 23 J. Legal Stud. 667 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism, 48 Nat’l Tax J. 497 (1995).

Louis Kaplow, On the Divergence Between ‘Ideal’ and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital, 86 Am. Econ. Rev. 347 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Tax and Non-Tax Distortions, 68 J. Pub. Econ. 303 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Incentive and Government Relief for Risk, 4 J. Risk & Uncertainty 167 (1991).