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Hip-Hop And Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, And Law, Lisa T. Alexander

Lisa T. Alexander

U.S. housing law is finally receiving its due attention. Scholars and practitioners are focused primarily on the subprime mortgage and foreclosure crises. Yet the current recession has also resurrected the debate about the efficacy of place-based lawmaking. Place-based laws direct economic resources to low-income neighborhoods to help existing residents remain in place and to improve those areas. Law-and-economists and staunch integrationists attack place-based lawmaking on economic and social grounds. This Article examines the efficacy of place-based lawmaking through the underutilized prism of culture. Using a sociolegal approach, it develops a theory of cultural collective efficacy as a justification for place-based …

The Common Knowledge Of Tax Abuse, Mark P. Gergen

Mark P. Gergen

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The Property Rights Movement's Embrace Of Intellectual Property: True Love Or Doomed Relationship, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

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Analysis Of The Scope Of Copyright Protection For Application Programs, An, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

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Are You Making Fun Of Me: Notes On Market Failure And The Parody Defense In Copyright, Robert P. Merges

Robert P Merges

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Autonomy And Independence: The Normative Face Of Transaction Costs, Robert P. Merges

Robert P Merges

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Rent Control In The Patent District: Observations On The Grady-Alexander Thesis, Robert P. Merges

Robert P Merges

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The Law And Economics Of Employee Inventions, Robert P. Merges

Robert P Merges

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Intellectual Property Arbitrage: How Foreign Rules Can Affect Domestic Protections, Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson

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Probability And Chance In Contract Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg

Melvin A. Eisenberg

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Derecho Y Economía En El Mundo Del Derecho Continental: El Papel De Las Cortes Brasileñas, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Mariana Pargendler

Benjamin L. Harwood

Bubbles (Or, Some Reflections On The Basic Laws Of Human Relations), Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Economics-Based Environmentalism In The Fourth Generation Of Environmental Law, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Environmental protection and economic concerns are not mutually exclusive. This article explores some of the issues of economic analysis that might arise as we approach the fourth generation of environmental law. It explains ways that economic analysis can be employed to generate the best environmental rules, including measures under what this article terms as "economics-based environmentalism." Economics-based environmentalism contends that the advantages of using economic principles within a “polycentric toolbox” of environmental law come from the benefits available in private ordering, markets, property rights, liability regimes and incentives structures that will better protect the environment than alternatives like state-based interventionist, …

A Framework For Understanding Property Regulation And Land Use Control From A Dynamic Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Derecho Y Economía En El Mundo Del Derecho Continental: El Papel De Las Cortes Brasileñas, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Mariana Pargendler

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Law And Economics In Der Welt Des Zivilrechts: Die Situation Brasilianischer Gerichte, Mariana Pargendler, Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Controles De Câmbio No Brasil: Teoria E Prática, Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Desconsideração Da Personalidade Jurídica Em Favor De Credores Comerciais, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Alberto Barbosa Jr.

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

A Racionalidade Econômica Do Direito Falimentar: Reflexões Sobre O Caso Brasileiro, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Fabio Crocco

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

The Questionable Character Of The Bar’S Character And Fitness Inquiry, Leslie C. Levin, Christine Zozula, Peter Siegelman

Peter Siegelman

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The Mask Of Virtue: Theories Of Aretaic Legislation In A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Corporate Social Responsibility In A Remedy-Seeking Society: A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on “What Can Law & Economics Teach Us About the Corporate Social Responsibility Debate?,” this Article applies the lessons of public choice theory to examine corporate social responsibility. The Article adopts a broad definition of corporate social responsibility activism to include both (1) those efforts that seek to convince corporations to voluntarily take into account corporate social responsibility in their own decision-making, and (2) the efforts to alter the legal landscape and expand legal obligations of corporations beyond traditional notions of harm and duty so as to force corporations to invest in interests …

Another View Of The Quagmire: Unconstitutional Conditions And Contract Theory, Daniel A. Farber

Daniel A Farber

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The Property Platform In Anglo-American Law And The Primacy Of The Property Concept, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

This Article proposes that the property concept, when reduced to its basic principles, is a foundational element and a useful lens for evaluating and understanding the whole of Anglo-American private law even though the discrete disciplines—property, tort, and contract—have their own separate and distinct existence. In this Article, a broad property concept is not focused just on things or on sticks related to things but instead is defined as relating to all things owned. These things may include one’s self and all the key elements associated with this broader set of things owned—including the right to exclude, ownership, dominion, authority, …

Certainty Of Title: Perspectives After The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis On The Essential Function Of Effective Recording Systems, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Recording systems for property play a pivotal, market-facilitating role for the players engaged in any transaction, the judiciary that must resolve disputes between the players, and others members of the general public by informing each about the true nature of ownership of the real property things in the world. This symposium article explores the essential character of such systems in providing certainty of title, and takes a tour through the mortgage foreclosure crisis to see where adherence to and respect for these systems’ roles broke down. Leading up to the crisis, as securitization became vogue and the housing boom blurred …

A Financial Economic Theory Of Punitive Damages, Robert J. Rhee

Robert Rhee

This Article provides a financial economic theory of punitive damages. The core problem, as the Supreme Court acknowledged in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, is not the systemic amount of punitive damages in the tort system; rather, it is the risk of outlier outcomes. Low frequency, high severity awards are unpredictable, cause financial distress, and beget social cost. By focusing only on offsetting escaped liability, the standard law and economics theory fails to account for the core problem of variance. This Article provides a risk arbitrage analysis of the relationship between variance, litigation valuation, and optimal deterrence. Starting with settlement …

A História Do Declínio E Queda Do Eficientismo Na Obra De Richard Posner, Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Sete Enigmas Do Desenvolvimento Em Douglass North, Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Where Does The Critique Of Consumer-Based Economic Governance Stand Today?, John Haskell, Luigi Russi

Luigi Russi

This paper addresses the increasing importance of the ‘consumer society’ paradigm in the shaping of economic policy and legislation, explores its foundational ideas and disputes, and introduces seven critiques that have surfaced with new currency among scholars and civil society in the wake of the ongoing financial crisis. The developments and critiques surrounding the consumer-based model of governance intimate a much broader story of shifting economic thought and socio-political contestation around the globe. This paper seeks both to capture the larger story and harness its complexity to a specific set of dynamics by using the European Union as a case …

Metodologia E Epistemologia Da Análise Econômica Do Direito, Ivo T. Gico Jr.

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Trata-se de uma contextualização da Análise Econômica do Direito – AED dentro da epistemologia jurídica em um contexto civilista. A partir de uma revisão dos paradigmas dominantes no direito brasileiro, contextualiza-se histórica e epistemologicamente a abordagem da AED. O objetivo é oferecer uma primeira abordagem por juristas e economistas, ressaltando algumas utilidades e limitações para ambos os campos. Uma vez contextualizada a AED no direito, alguns pontos não exaustivos da metodologia econômica e, portanto, da própria AED, são apresentados e analisados em termos de compatibilidade com os paradigmas dominantes do direito. O resultado é uma primeira aproximação do que seja …