A safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is the holy grail of our generation, necessary to resurrect our societies, save millions of lives, and protect our economies from collapse. Patent protection is the primary legal mechanism for ensuring timely development of such a vaccine. The patent system...

Women do not get a fair share when it comes to patenting and are far less likely to own patents. This disparity is in part because of not only the inherent biases in science and technology and in the patent system itself, but also because of the high costs of even applying for patents. This...

In this Article we show how the biggest tort reform of the last decade was passed through the backdoor with the blessing of its staunchest opponents. We argue that the widely-endorsed apology law reform — a change in the national legal landscape that privileged apologies — is, in fact, a...

Economic analysis of tort law is central to the rise of the law and economics movement, bringing economic thinking into the heart of legal theory. Early economic analysis of tort law accomplished this fit through insistence on several distinct features. First, law and economics scholars made a...

In their celebrated article, now simply known as The Cathedral, Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed laid out the choice between property rules and liability rules. The rich and sophisticated literature that followed added multiple new ways to view this basic choice and highlighted the advantages...

Contract law affects behavior not just directly, by ordering damages, but also indirectly, by providing information on how the parties to the dispute behaved. Information from litigation can then help third parties decide whether to do business with the disputants going forward. Contract law...

Law and economics scholarship suggests that, in appropriate cases, the law can improve people’s behavior by changing their preferences. For instance, the law can curb discriminatory hiring practices by providing employers with information that might change their preferences towards...

A large literature in law and economics analyzes the phenomenon of crime displacement and its implications for criminal law. Yet a similar phenomenon of harm displacement in the tort context has been ignored by scholars. We develop a simple model of bilateral accidents which allows for harm to...

A well-known result in economic analysis of contract law is that expectation damages lead to over-reliance by the non-breaching party. Recently, the contractual disgorgement remedy has attracted much attention from scholars, yet no attempt has been made to analyze reliance investment under this...