To serve as an effective basis for positive or normative analysis of law, theoretical law and economics analysis must be predicated on models that accurately capture the essential characteristics of the decision-making environment, decision-makers’ available choices, and individuals’...

This Article suggests the necessity of a co-evolutionary process among empirical and theoretical advances in law and economics. Empirical work alone is suggestive, but should not be taken too seriously. The weaknesses in empirical work are a kind of virus that begins with over-statements and...

The abortion involves the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy. Protecting access to abortion effectuates vital constitutional values, including dignity, autonomy, equality, and bodily integrity. This is something...

Policies designed to increase the diversity of law review editors are being challenged in court. The lawsuits claim that, by "illegally us[ing] race and gender as criteria for selecting law students to staff their most elite academic journals," the law reviews have diminished the quality of the...

First, while intellectual histories of law and development theory are now common, no work that I am aware of employs the actual experience of Northeast Asia to interrogate these theories, yet it is in Northeast Asia where modern history's most outstanding development success stories can be...

The general decline in juris doctor (“J.D.”) law school applicants and enrollment over the last decade has coincided with the rise of a new breed of law degree. Whether known as a master of jurisprudence, juris master, master of legal studies, or other names, these graduate degrees all have...