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Supreme Court Economic Review
Table of Contents, Volumes 1-15


Vols. 5 (1996) to present can be purchased from the University of Chicago Press.
Vols. 4 (1995) to present are available on Westlaw; filename is SCTECONR.
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Volume 1. Peter Aranson, editor (1982)

James E. Krier,  The Regulation Machine

William H.Riker,  Democracy and Representation: A Reconciliation of Ball v. James and Reynolds v. Sims

Charles E. McLure, Jr., Incidence Analysis and the Supreme Court: An Examination of Four Cases from the 1980 Term

Keith B. Leffler,  Prohibition of Billboard Advertising: An Economic Analysis of The Metromedia Decision

Dorsey D. Ellis, Jr.,  Economic Efficiency and Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages: Economic Implications of City of Newport v. Facts Concerts, Inc.

George L. Priest,  Regulating the Content and Volume of Litigation: An Economic Analysis

Cotton M. Lindsay and Charles A. Shanor,  County of Washington v. Gunther: Legal and Economic Considerations for Resolving Sex-Based Wage Discrimination

Armen A. Alchian, Decision Sharing and Expropriable Specific Quasi-Rents: A Theory of First National Maintenance Corp. V. NLRB


Volume 2. Peter Aranson, editor (1983)

David D. Haddock and Thomas D. Hall, The Impact of Making Rights Inalienable: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Texaco, Inc. v. Short, Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n de la Cuesta, and Ridgway v. Ridgway

James C. Cox, R. Mark Isaac, and Vernon L. Smith, OCS Leasing and Auctions: Incentives and the Performance of Alternative Bidding Institutions

Stephen F. Williams,  Free Trade in Water Resources: Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas

Gregg A. Jarrell,  State Anti-Takeover Laws and the Efficient Allocation of Corporate Control: An Economic Analysis of Edgar v. Mite Corp.

Glen O. Robinson, The Sherman Act as a Home Rule Charter: Community Communications Co. V. City of Boulder

Howard P. Marvel, Hybrid Trade Restraints: The Legal Limits of a Government's Helping Hand

Keith B. Leffler, Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society: Maximum-Price Agreements in Markets with Insured Buyers


Volume 3. Harold Demsetz and Ernest Gellhorn, editors (1993)

Richard A. Posner, What Do Judges and Justices Maximize? (The Same Thing Everybody Else Does)

Benjamin Klein, Market Power in Antitrust: Economic Analysis after Kodak

Bruce H. Kobayashi and Jeffrey S. Parker, No Armistice at 11: A Commentary on the Supreme Court's 1993 Amendment to Rule 11  of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Wesley J. Liebeler and Armen Alchian, Constitutional Baselines by Virtual Contract: A General Theory and its Application to Regulatory Takings

William H. Page and John E. Lopatka, State Regulation in the Shadow of Antitrust: FTC v Ticor Title Insurance Co.

W. Kip Viscusi, Cigarette Warnings: The Perils of the Cipollone Decision


Volume 4. Harold Demsetz, Ernest Gellhorn, and Nelson Lund, editors (1995)

Jeffrey S. Parker,  Daubert's Debut: The Supreme Court, the Economics of Scientific Evidence, and the Adversarial System

Donald J. Boudreaux, Kenneth G. Elzinga, and David E. Mills, The Supreme Court's Predation Odyssey: From Fruit Pies to Cigarettes

Larry E. Ribstein, The Constitutional Conception of the Corporation

Simonetti Samuels,  Interpreting Health Care Cost Containment Legislation: Good Samaritan Hospital v Shalala and Relative Institutional Competence

A. V. Pritchard, O'Melveny & Meyers v. FDIC: Imputation of Fraud and Optimal Monitoring  


Volume 5. Harold Demsetz, Ernest Gellhorn, and Nelson Lund, editors (1997)

Richard A. Epstein, Babbitt v Sweet Home Chapters of Oregon: The Law and Economics of Habitat Preservation

Einer Elhauge, John R. Lott, Jr. and Richard L. Manning, How Term Limits Enhance the Expression of Democratic Preferences

Fred S. McChesney, De-Bates and Re-Bates: The Supreme Court's Latest Commercial Speech Cases

F.H. Buckley and Margaret F. Brinig, Welfare Magnets: The Race for the Top

Paul H. Rubin, John E. Calfee and Mark F. Grady, BMW v Gore: Mitigating The Punitive Economics of Punitive Damages

Richard S. Murphy and Erin A. O'Hara, Mistake of Federal Criminal Law: A Study of Coalitions and Costly Information


Volume 6. Ernest Gellhorn, and Nelson Lund, editors (1998)

Ronald A. Cass, Money, Power, and Politics: Governance Models and Campaign Finance Regulation

John E. Lopatka and Michael G. Vita, The Must-Carry Decisions: Bad Law, Bad Economics

Larry E. Ribstein, Federalism and Insider Trading

Jonathan R. Macey, Winstar, Bureaucracy and Public Choice

William E. Kovacic, The Civil False Claims Act as a Deterrent to Participation in Government Procurement Markets


Volume 7. Ernest Gellhorn, and Larry E. Ribstein, editors (1999)

Benjamin Klein, Distribution Restrictions Operate by Creating Dealer Profits: Explaining the Use of Maximum Resale Price Maintenance in State Oil v. Khan

Theodore Eisenberg & Martin T. Wells, The Predictability of Punitive Damages Awards in Published Opinions, the Impact of BMW v. Gore on Punitive Damages Awards, and Forecasting Which Punitive Awards Will Be Reduced

Maxwell L. Stearns, Should Justices Ever Switch Votes?: Miller v. Albright in Social Choice Perspective

John E. Lopatka & William H. Page, Antitrust on Internet Time: Microsoft and the Law and Economics of Exclusion

Christopher R. Drahozal, Preserving the American Common Market: State and Local Governments in the United States Supreme Court

Michael A. Heller & James E. Krier, Making Something Out of Nothing: The Law of Takings and Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation


Volume 8. Larry E. Ribstein, editor (2000)

Barry E. Adler, The Emergence of Markets in Chapter 11: A Small Step on North LaSalle Street

George M. Cohen, The "Fair" Is The Enemy of the Good:  Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corporation and Class Action Settlements

Clayton P. Gillette & Paul B. Stephan, Richardson v. McKnight and the Scope of Immunity after Privatization

Thomas W. Hazlett, Digitizing "Must-Carry" under Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1997)

Keith N. Hylton, Agreements to Waive or to Arbitrate Legal Claims: An Economic Analysis

Timothy J. Muris, California Dental Association v. FTC: The Revenge of Footnote 17


Volume 9. Nelson Lund and Larry E. Ribstein, editors (2001)

Richard A. Ippolito, Freedom to Contract in Medical Care: HMOs, ERISA and Pegram v Herdrich

Stephen G. Gilles, Parental (and Grandparental) Rights After Troxel v Granville

Michelle M. Burtis & Bruce H. Kobayashi, Why an Original can be Better than a Copy: Intellectual Property, the Antitrust Refusal to Deal, and ISO Antitrust Litigation

Tracey E. George & Michael E. Solimine, Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc

Jonathan H. Adler, The Ducks Stop Here? The Environmental Challenge to Federalism


Volume 10. "The Rule of Law, Freedom, and Prosperity: A Symposium Sponsored by the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law," Todd J. Zywicki , editor (2002)

Todd J. Zywicki, The Rule Of Law, Freedom, And Prosperity

Joel Mokyr, Why Was The Industrial Revolution A European Phenomenon?

Francesco Parisi, Freedom Of Contract And The Laws Of Entropy

Stephen Knack & Paul J. Zak, Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, And Economic Development

Peter Boettke, J. & Robert Subrick, Rule Of Law, Development, And Human Capabilities

Robert Cooter, Who Gets On Top In Democracy? Elections As Filters

James M. Buchanan, The Constitutional Way Of Thinking

Jeff Bowen & Susan Rose-Ackerman, Partisan Politics And Executive Accountability: Argentina In Comparative Perspective

Bernard S. Black & Anna S. Tarassova, Institutional Reform In Transition: A Case Study Of Russia


Volume 11. Francesco Parisi and Daniel D. Polsby, editors (2003)

Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Patent Law, the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court: A Quiet Revolution

J. Gregory Sidak, An Economic Theory of Censorship

Eric A. Posner, Probability Errors: Some Positive and Normative Implications for Tort and Contract Law

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Threatening an "Irrational" Breach of Contract

Cass R. Sunstein, On the Psychology of Punishment

Mark F. Grady, The Free Radicals of Tort


Volume 12. Francesco Parisi and Daniel D. Polsby, editors (2004)

Richard A. Posner, The 2000 Presidential Election: A Statistical and Legal Analysis

Vincy Fon, Electoral College Alternatives and US Presidential Elections

Richard A. Epstein, Of Same Sex Relationships and Affirmative Action: The Covert Libertarianism of the United States Supreme Court

Randy E. Barnett, The Original Meaning of Judicial Power

Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Efficient Third Part Liability of Auditors in Tort Law and in Contract Law

Sheldon Kimmel, The Supreme Court’s Efficiency Defense

Note: Substantial portions of Irrationality and the Criminal Sanction,12 SCER 139 (2004), by Michael E. O’Neill, were appropriated without attribution from Anne C. Dailey’s book review, Striving for Rationality, 86 Virginia Law Review 349 (2000). Professor O’Neill’s article is therefore withdrawn.


Volume 13. Francesco Parisi and Daniel D. Polsby, editors (2005)

Dennis C. Mueller, Rights and Liberty in the European Union

Paul H. Rubin, Micro and Macro Legal Efficiency: Supply and Demand

Terrence Chorvat, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon Smith, Law and Neuroeconomics

Andrew P. Morris, Michael Heise and Gregory C. Sisk, Signaling and Precedent in Federal District Court Opinions

Peter H. Huang, Moody Investing and the Supreme Court: Rethinking the Materiality of Information and the Reasonableness of Investors

F.H. Buckley, Perfectionism

Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, Errors and the Functioning of Tort Liability

Malcolm B. Coate, Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: An Institutionalist View


Volume 14. Francesco Parisi, Daniel D. Polsby, and Lloyd R. Cohen, editors (2006)

Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum, Speaking Up: A Model of Judicial Dissent and Discretionary Review

Michael S. Greve and Jonathan Klick, Preemption in the Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment

Paul H. Edelman, Richard A. Nagareda and Charles Silver, The Allocation Problem in Multiple-Claimant Representations

Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Rules versus Standards in Rich and Poor Countries: Precise Legal Norms as Substitutes for Human Capital in Low-Income Countries

Ben Depoorter and Jef De Mot, Whistle Blowing: An Economic Analysis of the False Claims Act

David Schleicher, "Politics as Markets" Reconsidered: Natural Monopolies, Competitive Democratic Philosophy and Primary Ballot Access in American Elections

Doug Lichtman and Eric Posner, Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable

Bruce H. Kobayashi, An Economic Analysis of the Private and Social Costs of the Provision of Cybersecurity and other Public Security Goods By


Volume 15. Francesco Parisi, Lloyd R. Cohen, and Daniel D. Polsby, editors (2007)

Retraction of Irrationality and the Criminal Sanction 12 SCER 139 (2004) by Michael E. O'Neill,
–the Editors of the Supreme Court Economic Review

Hugo M. Mialon, Paul H. Rubin and Joel L.Schrag, Judicial Hierarchies and the Rule-Individual Tradeoff

Frank B. Cross, Identifying the Virtues of the Common Law

Keith N. Hylton and V.S. Khanna, A Public Choice Theory of Criminal Procedure

Gerrit De Geest and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Soft Regulators, Tough Judges

Daniel H. Cole, Political Institutions, Judicial Review, and Private Property: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Ilya Somin, Controlling the Grasping Hand: Economic Development Takings after Kelo

Roberto Galbiati and Nuno Garoupa, Keeping Stigma Out of Administrative Law: An Explanation of Consistent Beliefs

Jenna Bednar, Credit Assignment and Federal Encroachment

                                                               




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