Rupert Macey-Dare University of Oxford – Saint Cross College; Middle Temple; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP; Minerva ChambersJuly 12, 2015
“The Economics of Disaster Relief” Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2015-01Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2015-25
It is often noted that prosecutors allow defendants to plead down from their real offense to a minor one in order to avoid the costs of trial, which has the effect of making crime statistics less reliable.
“Law and Custom on the Federal Open Market Committee” Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 78, No. 3, 2015
“Deterrence and the Optimality of Rewarding Prisoners for Good Behavior” International Review of Law and Economics, ForthcomingStanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 478
Yonathan A. Arbel's “Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance” (not up on the web yet, it seems. An idea in the paper that particularly caught my attention was this:"Many contract cases involve some contingency fee component, so that part of
Prosecutor and police misbehavior is a big problem. Prosecutors have absolute immunity to civil suit, and though police can be sued under civil rights statutes, often the amount at stake is too small to justify that lengthy process. Also,
Last week Mark Roe presented a paper on the history of corporate bankruptcy law, "Three Systems of Bankruptcy —Or Is It Four?" (not up on the web yet) that I found interesting. There was no special law for corporations in
Not intended as a rhetorical question. Toward the end of this interesting Vox piece on new solar technologies, there's a claim by the policy expert that "Policies like renewable portfolio standards or carbon taxes might sound technology-neutral, but they tend
This solution is simple. Let's go back to the old days, when all you had to do to practice law was to pass the bar exam. That will solve the problem of law school tuition. All the people who think
