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Economic Analysis of Law [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
This entry for the forthcoming The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition) surveys the economic analysis of five primary fields of law: property law; liability for accidents; contract law; litigation; and public enforcement and criminal law. It also briefly considers some criticisms of the economic analysis of law.
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell
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POSNER, ECONOMICS AND THE LAW: FROM “LAW AND ECONOMICS” TO ANECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of the History of Economic Thought, 2009
The purpose of this article is to discuss Posner's economic analysis of law and to analyse the differences between his economic analysis of law and law and economics. We propose and demonstrate a twofold original argument. First, we show that Posner does not only propose an economic analysis of the working of the legal system but also that his approach
Alain Marciano, Sophie Harnay
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Economic Analysis of Law

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1974
Marking Scheme: mid-term tests 20% for the first test, 25% for the second test, in-class exercise 5%, final exam 50%. Term tests Mon., October 6; Mon., November 3, 4-5PM. Short exercise worth 5% done at end of class on September 17, no make-up. Absence from the tests will only be excused for serious illness, notified to me no later than the day after ...
James E. Krier, Richard A. Posner
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Law and Economics versus Economic Analysis of Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper distinguishes law and economics – conceived as an equal partnership between two disciplines – and economic analysis of law, conceived as the application of economic reasoning to legal rules and institutions. I explore the difference by contrasting Robert Aumann’s economic analysis of a text from the Talmud with an analysis of the same text ...
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Economic Analysis in Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This Essay explores the relationship between normative law and economics and legal theory. We claim that legal theory must account for law’s coerciveness, its normativity, and its institutional structure. Economic analyses that engage these features are an integral part of legal theory, rather than external observations about law from an economic ...
Hanoch Dagan, Roy Kreitner
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Of Law and Economics and Economic Analysis of Law: The Role of the Lawyer

Global Jurist, 2019
Abstract This is the first chapter of The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection by Guido Calabresi, first published by Yale University Press in 2016.
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Economic Analysis and International Law

Economics is a social science that can be defined in a few different ways. It is the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources and respond to incentives, or the study of decision-making. Economics is a broad discipline that helps to interpret all sorts of phenomena (e.g., public policies, consumption and production, social norms, crime ...
Borlini, Leonardo, Silingardi, Stefano
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Economic analysis of law

Journal of Shatt Al-Arab University College, 2022
The economic analysis of law has become of the common concepts in field of social studies in Western world; we rarely find a study of legal problems did not address the data and results of the school of law and economics. This importance stems from the close relationship between law and the economy in general, which is as old as the existence of social
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An Economic Analysis of Uniform State Laws

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1996
Uniform laws proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) cover virtually every area of state law. Yet there is no economic analysis of the NCCUSL's activities. This article addresses this gap in the literature by applying economic analysis to evaluate and explain the NCCUSL's activities and their success in state
Ribstein, Larry E., Kobayashi, Bruce H.
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An economic analysis of the law of false advertising

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1979
THE past twenty years have produced a substantial literature suggesting the relevance of economic principles to the analysis of legal processes.' A seminal line of inquiry has evaluated the proposition that the common law, despite its diversity, is founded upon a unifying principle: courts behave rationally as if to achieve economic efficiency.2 To ...
Jordan, Ellen R., Rubin, Paul H.
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