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Reza Dibadj

2003

Law and economics

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Beyond Facile Assumptions And Radical Assertions: A Case For Critical Legal Economics, Reza Dibadj Dec 2002

Beyond Facile Assumptions And Radical Assertions: A Case For Critical Legal Economics, Reza Dibadj

Reza Dibadj

This piece takes issue with the conventional wisdom that economic and critical approaches to law are incompatible. It argues that the facile assumptions behind the popular conception of law and economics, as well as the radical assertions characterizing traditional critical legal studies, mask the potential of each approach. Once stripped of this baggage, each reveals rich insights which, when combined, can serve as the basis for a new path. Critical legal economics is an interdisciplinary venture that seeks to apply the discipline of economic thought to prevent utopian speculation, while addressing a series of critical questions-around wealth disparities, information asymmetries, …


Regulatory Givings And The Anticommons, Reza Dibadj Dec 2002

Regulatory Givings And The Anticommons, Reza Dibadj

Reza Dibadj

The concepts of takings and the tragedy of the commons are familiar to those versed in the legal and economic literature. Only recently has scholarship begun to emerge around their less studied counterparts, givings and anticommons. For the first time, this article attempts to develop and bring together these two emerging areas of legal scholarship using the tools of law and economics. The focus is to explore how these new concepts, taken together, can create a mechanism with which to explore developments in administrative law. The piece first builds a theoretical argument as to how regulatory largesse can subtly create …