The requirement of disclosure in the patent specification is commonly presented as an essential arm of the patent bargain. This paper tests the assumption that disclosure requirements in a number of common law jurisdictions continue to reflect this and other shared origins of this doctrine....

Zerbe has elsewhere developed a concept of economic efficiency that has implications for common law efficiency. Here we explore aspects of this concept of efficiency for the relationship between common law efficiency and considerations of distributive justice. In particular, we consider examples...

In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...