The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics

Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts, Volume 2: Private and Commercial Law, and Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions

Edited by Francesco Parisi

Oxford Handbooks

A three volume set of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics
Critical and analytical essays that make new and original arguments about law and economics
Together, the three volumes provide an extensive survey of recent findings and developing trends in the literature

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics

Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts, Volume 2: Private and Commercial Law, and Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions

Edited by Francesco Parisi

Description

Covering over one-hundred topics on issues ranging from Law and Neuroeconomics to European Union Law and Economics to Feminist Theory and Law and Economics, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics is the definitive work in the field of law and economics. The volumes gather together scholars and experts in law and economics to create the most inclusive and current work on law and economics. Edited by Francisco Parisi, the Handbooks look at the origins of the field of law and economics, tracks its progression and increased importance to both law and economics, and looks to the future of the field and its continued development by examining a cornucopia of fields touched by work in law and economics. The uniqueness of its breadth, depth, and convenience make the volume essential to scholars, students, and contributors in the field of law and economics.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics

Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts, Volume 2: Private and Commercial Law, and Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions

Edited by Francesco Parisi

Oxford Handbooks

VOLUME 1: METHODOLOGY AND CONCEPTS
1:The Future of Law and Economics,, Gary Becker and Richard Posner
Part I. Methodology and Foundations
2:Economic Models of Law, Thomas Miceli
3:Empirical Law and Economics, Jonathan Klick
4:Bounded Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and the Law, Christine Jolls
5:Experimental Economics and the Law, Charles Holt and Sean Sullivan
6:Experimental Psychology and the Law, Tess Ryan-Wilkinson
7:Social Psychology and the Law, Pam Mueller and Janice Nadler
8:Evolutionary Law and Economics, Georg von Wangenheim
9:Public Choice Theory and Legal Institutions, Daniel A. Farber
10:Constitutional Economics and the Law, Stefan Voigt
11:Law, Economics, and Positive Political Theory, Emerson H. Tiller
12:Contractarian Perspectives in Law and Economics, Georg Vanberg and Viktor Vanberg
13:Austrian Perspectives in Law and Economics, Shruti Rajagopalan and Mario J. Rizzo
14:Moral Philosophy and Law and Economics, Brian Bix
15:Critiques of Law and Economics, David Driesen and Robin Malloy
Part II. Concepts and Tools
16:Income Redistribution through the Law, Chris Sanchirico
17:Cost-Benefit Analysis in Legal Decision-Making, Richard Zerbe
18:Well-Being and Public Policy, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur
19:Value-Driven Behavior and the Law, Tom Tyler
20:Carrots vs. Sticks, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Gerrit DeGeest
21:Law and Social Norms, Emanuela Carbonara
22:Mechanism Design and the Law, Werner Güth
23:Collective Decision Making and Jury Theorems, Shmuel Nitzan and Jacob Paroush
VOLUME 2: PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW
Part I. Private Law
1:Economics of Contract Law, Douglas Baird
2:Theory of Efficient Breach, Daniel Markovits and Alan Schwartz
3:Economics of Tort Law, Jennifer Arlen
4:Estimating Pain and Suffering Damages, Ronen Avraham
5:Medical Malpractice, Ronen Avraham and Max M. Schanzenbach
6:Economics of Property Law, Henry Smith
7:Commons and Anticommons, Michael Heller
8:Economics of Intellectual Property Law, , Robert P. Merges
9:Trademarks and Unfair Competition, Clarisa Long
10:Law and Economics of Information, Tim Wu
11:Open-Access and Information Commons, Yochai Benkler
12:Family and Household Economics, Amy Wax
13:Economics of Remedies, Ariel Porat
Part II. Corporate, Commercial, and Environmental Law
14:The Economic Nature of the Corporation, Lynn Stout
15:Market for Corporate Law, Roberta Romano
16:Agency and Partnership, George M. Cohen
17:Banking and Financial Regulation, Steven L. Schwarcz
18:Economics of Bankruptcy, Michelle White
19:Law and Economics of Insurance, Daniel Schwarcz and Peter Siegelman
20:Economics of Environmental Law, Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
VOLUME 3: PUBLIC LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
Part I. Constitutions, Statutes, and Regulations
1:Optimal Constitutional Structure, Richard A. Epstein
2:Design of Constitutions, Thomas Ginsburg
3:Democratic Rulemaking, John M. de Figueiredo and Edward H. Stiglitz
4:Regulatory Decision-Making and Economic Analysis, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar and Jerry Mashaw
5:Economics of Federalism, Daniel Rubinfeld and Robert Inman
6:Economics of Tax Law, Daniel Shaviro
Part II. Civil Process and Litigation
7:Judge-Made Law and the Common Law Process, Ben Depoorter and Paul Rubin
8:Economics of Civil Procedure, Robert G. Bone
9:Economics of Evidence, Chris W. Sanchirico
10:Economics of Litigation, Bruce Kobayashi
11:Settlement and Trial, Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum
12:Legal Fees and Lawyers' Compensation, Winard Emons
13:Legal Profession and the Market for Lawyers, Albert Yoon
14:Law and Economics of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Talia Fisher
Part III. Crime and Punishment
15:Economics of Criminal Law, Isaac Ehrlich
16:Economics of Criminal Procedure, Keith Hylton
17:Guns and Crime, Anthony Braga
18:Prosecutorial Strategies, Roger Bowles
Part IV. Beyond National Legal Systems
19:Economics of Ancient Legal Systems, Geoffrey Miller
20:Economics of Legal History, Daniel Klerman
21:Economics of International Law, Alan Sykes and Andrew Guzman
22:Enforcement of International Law, Paul B. Stephan
23:International Finance and Sovereign Debt, W. Mark C. Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati
24:Economics of International Organizations, Joel Trachtman
25:Choice of Law and Conflict of Laws, Erin O'Hara

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics

Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts, Volume 2: Private and Commercial Law, and Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions

Edited by Francesco Parisi

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Edited by Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law , University of Minnesota Law School and Distinguished Professor of Public Finance, University of Bologna

Francesco Parisi is the Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Distinguished Professor of Public Finance at the University of Bologna. From 2002 to 2006 he held a Chair in Private Law at the University of Milan (Statale), where he was appointed Professore Ordinario per Chiara Fama. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at George Mason University where he served as Professor of Law & Director of the Law and Economics Program and as an Associate Director of the J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He has authored 18 books and approximately 200 papers in the field of law and economics. Professor Parisi is Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Law and Economics, Associate Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, and served as Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. He is a member of the board of editors of the Journal of Public Choice, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy

Contributors:

Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law
Ronen Avraham, The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas Baird, University of Chicago Law School
The late Gary Becker
Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
Brian Bix, University of Minnesota Law School
Robert G. Bone, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Roger Bowles, University of York
Anthony Braga, Rutgers University
John Bronsteen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Christopher Buccafusco, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Emanuela Carbonara, University of Bologna
George M. Cohen, University of Virginia
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Stanford University
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, University of Amsterdam
Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Gerrit DeGeest, Washington University, St. Louis
Ben Depoorter, University of California, Hastings
David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law
Isaac Ehrlich, University at Buffalo
Winard Emons, University of Bern
Richard A. Epstein, The New York University School of Law
Daniel A. Farber, University of California, Berkeley
John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University
Talia Fisher, Tel Aviv University
Thomas Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School
Mitu Gulati, Duke University
Werner Güth, Max Planck Institute of Economics
Andrew Guzman, USC Gould School of Law
Michael Heller, Columbia Law School
Charles Holt, University of Virginia
Keith Hylton, Boston University School of Law
Robert Inman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School
Daniel Klerman, USC Law School
Jonathan Klick, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Bruce Kobayashi, George Mason Law School
Michael A. Livermore, University of Virginia School of Law
Clarisa Long, Columbia Law School
Robin Malloy, Syracuse University College of Law
Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School
Jerry Mashaw, Yale University
Robert P. Merges, UC Berkeley School of Law
Thomas Miceli, University of Connecticut
Geoffrey Miller, New York University Law School
Pam Mueller, Princeton University
Janice Nadler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Shmuel Nitzan, Bar Ilan University
Erin O'Hara, Vanderbilt Law School
Jacob Paroush, Bar Ilan University
Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv University
Richard Posner, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and University of Chicago Law School
Shruti Rajagopalan, State University of New York
Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
Richard L. Revesz, New York University School of Law
Mario J. Rizzo, New York University
Roberta Romano, Yale Law School
Paul Rubin, Emory University
Daniel Rubinfeld, University of California, Berkeley and NYU
Tess Ryan-Wilkinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Chris Sanchirico, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Max M. Schanzenbach, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Daniel Schwarcz, University of Minnesota Law School
Steven L. Schwarcz, Duke University School of Law
Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School
Daniel Shaviro, New York University Law School
Peter Siegelman, University of Connecticut Law School
Henry Smith, Harvard Law School
Paul B. Stephan, University of Virginia School of Law
Edward H. Stiglitz, Cornell University
Lynn Stout, Cornell Law School
Sean Sullivan, Federal Trade Commission
Alan Sykes, Stanford Law School
Emerson H. Tiller, Northwestern University
Joel Trachtman, Tufts University
Tom Tyler, Yale Law School
Georg Vanberg, Duke University
Viktor Vanberg, Albert Ludwigs Universitaet, Freiburg
Stefan Voigt, University of Hamburg
Georg von Wangenheim, University of Kassel
Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
W. Mark C. Weidemaier, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle White, University of California, San Diego
Donald Wittman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tim Wu, Columbia Law School
Albert Yoon, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Richard Zerbe, University of Washington