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Disclosure As Distribution, Jeremy N. Sheff
Disclosure As Distribution, Jeremy N. Sheff
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This brief response to the work of Professors Omri Ben-Shahr and Carl Schneider on mandated disclosure regimes investigates the normative criteria underlying their claim that those regimes are failures. Specifically, it unpacks the pieces of those authors' implicit cost-benefit analysis, revealing inherently normative judgments about desert and responsibility at the core of their (or any) critique of disclosure regimes. Disclosure regimes may aim to improve human decisionmaking behaviors, but those behaviors are influenced in non-deterministic ways by cognitive capacities that are heterogeneously distributed among subjects of the regimes. Accordingly, any claim regarding the normative desirability of disclosure regimes (or any …
Order In The Desert: Law Abiding Behavior At Burning Man, Manuel A. Gómez
Order In The Desert: Law Abiding Behavior At Burning Man, Manuel A. Gómez
Faculty Publications
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The Law And Economics Of Norms, Juliet P. Kostritsky
The Law And Economics Of Norms, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Faculty Publications
The Evolution of Norms Within Economics and Law: Why Norms Were Ignored and Why They Matter Under Realistic Models of Behavior in Which Norms Emerge as the Outcome of Exchange to Reduce Costs
Marks, Morals, And Markets, Jeremy N. Sheff
Marks, Morals, And Markets, Jeremy N. Sheff
Faculty Publications
The prevailing justification for trademark law depends on economic arguments that cannot account for much of the law's recent development, nor for mounting empirical evidence that consumer decisionmaking is inconsistent with assumptions of rational choice. But the only extant theoretical alternative to economic analysis is a Lockean "natural rights" theory that scholars have found even more unsatisfying. This Article proposes a third option. I analyze the law of trademarks and unfair competition as a system of moral obligations between producers and consumers. Drawing on the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy, I develop and apply a new theoretical framework to evaluate …