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New Mexico Water Stake In The Colorado River, Estevan R. Lopez

Hard Times on the Colorado River: Drought, Growth and the Future of the Compact (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

Presenter: Estevan R. Lopez, Interstate Stream Commission, New Mexico.

2 pages.

History Of Colorado River Law, Development And Use: A Primer And Look Forward, Greg Hobbs, Jr.

Hard Times on the Colorado River: Drought, Growth and the Future of the Compact (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

Presenter: Greg Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Supreme Court.

25 pages.

Contains references.

Legal Durability, Omri Ben-Shahar

Articles

This paper develops a framework to study the effects of the durability of legal allocation decisions, such as trial outcomes, regulatory enactments and property entitlements. For a party favored by the legal allocation, a more durable decision is also more costly to secure, ex-ante. Thus, it is not the greater durability of the allocation that determines whether the “winner” is better-off, but other factors that are affected by the durability attribute, such as the cost of securing a favorable outcome and the ability of contesting parties to affect this cost. The paper develops conditions under which greater durability is irrelevant, …