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Discrimination & Civil Rights
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Hard Labor: Poor Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era
July 14, 2026
Hard Labor: Poor Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era (Joel F. Handler & Lucie E. White eds., M. E. Sharpe 1999).
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Closing the Care Gap that Welfare Reform Left Behind
July 14, 2026
Lucie E. White, Closing the Care Gap That Welfare Reform Left Behind, 577 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2001).
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Lucian Bebchuk, On Divisibility and Credibility: The Effects of the Distribution of Litigation Costs Over Time on the Credibility of Threats to Sue (Harv. L.
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Fairness versus Welfare
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 961 (2001).
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Louis Kaplow, Comment, Statutory Preferences for Minority-Owned Businesses: Fullilove v. Klutznick, 94 Harv. L. Rev. 125 (1980).
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Louis Kaplow, A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy, 73 Nat’l Tax J. 429 (2020).
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Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures: Antitrust, Title VII Disparate Impact, and Constitutional Law Strict Scrutiny
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow, Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures: Antitrust, Title VII Disparate Impact, and Constitutional Law Strict Scrutiny, 167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1375 (2019).
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Fairness Versus Welfare
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness Versus Welfare (Harvard Univ. Press 2006).
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Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, The Conflict Between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle, 1 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 63 (1999).
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Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res., Working Paper No. w7051, Mar. 1999).
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Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Principles of Fairness Versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper…
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Louis Kaplow, Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes (NBER Working Paper No. w5008, Feb. 1995).
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Why Measure Inequality?
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow, Why Measure Inequality?, 3 J. Econ. Ineq. 65 (2005).
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Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles (NBER Working Paper No. w7649, Apr. 2000).
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Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Any Non‐welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle, 109 J. Pol. Econ. 281 (2001).
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Optimal Income Transfers
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Transfers, 14 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 295 (2007).
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Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Any Non‐welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply, 112 J. Pol. Econ. 249 (2004).
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Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Notions of Fairness versus the Pareto Principle: On the Role of Logical Consistency, 110 Yale L.J. 237 (2000).
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Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
July 14, 2026
Louis Kaplow, Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences, 8 B.E. J. Econ. Analysis & Pol’y art. 40 (2008).
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A Response to Professor Maltz on the Slaughterhouse Case
July 14, 2026
Lawrence Lessig, A Response to Professor Maltz on the Slaughterhouse Case, The Originalism Blog (Nov. 7, 2022).
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The Brilliance in Slaughterhouse: A Judicially Restrained and Original Understanding of ‘Privileges or Immunities’
July 14, 2026
Lawrence Lessig, The Brilliance in Slaughterhouse: A Judicially Restrained and Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”, 26 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1 (2024).