This article surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of public agents
(inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal …

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
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With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a
masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles …

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A defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity is automatically committed to an insane
asylum. Release is dependent on a judicial hearing in the presence of a public prosecutor …

The authors first explain the various ways the rationality assumption is used in legal
scholarship and why it leads to unsatisfying policy prescriptions. They then systematically …

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely
recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to …

The economic analysis of criminal law began on a very high plane in the eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries with the work of Beccaria and Bentham,'but its revival in modem …

ABSTRACT In 1999, Jon Hanson and Douglas Kysar coined the term" market manipulation"
to describe how companies exploit the cognitive limitations of consumers. For example …

The imposition of punitive damages is one of the more controversial features of the
American legal system. Trial and appellate courts have struggled for many years to develop …