Disciplinary Perspectives & Law

Louis Kaplow, Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 79 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, The Optimal Supply of Public Goods and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation, 49 Nat’l Tax J. 513 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle, 42 Nat’l Tax J. 139 (1989).

Louis Kaplow, Tax Policy and Gifts, 88 Am. Econ. Rev. 283 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Burden of Proof, 121 Yale L.J. 738 (2012).

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

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, 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, A Model of the Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules, 11 J.L. Econ. & Org. 150 (1995).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Private versus Socially Optimal Provision of Ex Ante Legal Advice, 8 J.L. Econ. & Org. 306 (1992).

Lawrence Lessig, Why the US Is a Failed Democratic State, N.Y. Rev., Dec. 10, 2021.

Lawrence Lessig, Erie Effects of Volume 110: An Essay in Interpretive Context, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1785 (1997).

Lawrence Lessig, The Puzzling Persistence of Bellbottom Theory: What a Constitutional Theory Should Be, 85 Geo. L.J. 1837 (1997).

Kenneth W. Mack, A journalist who strives to show Black people’s ’full humanity’, Wash. Post, Oct. 30, 2022, at B8.

Taeku Lee, Jonathan Loc, Kenneth W. Mack et al., Civically Speaking with the Ash Center (Sept. 13, 2022).

Kenneth Mack, The Transformations of Morton Horwitz, Harv. L. Bull., July 1, 2013.

Laura Kalman, Jed Shugerman, Bill Simon, Kenneth Mack, Serena Mayeri, Norman Spaulding, Sarah Gordon, John Fabian Witt & Amelia Kessler, ‘Lawyers Make Law?’: Bob Gordon…

Kenneth W. Mack, A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump’s America, Wash. Post, Dec. 22, 2019, at B11 (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What…