In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

Imagine that you have newly taken charge of a local government, say as mayor of a large
city, and you must confront a range of social, environmental, and health problems. Rates of …

In this article, I defend compulsory voting on the grounds that it reinforces the distinctive and
valuable role that elections play in contemporary democracy. Some scholars have …

One of the central distinctions in the literature with regard to the behavioral function of the
law is between" intrinsic" and" extrinsic" motivations.'Extrinsic motivation is linked to actions …

Imagine you are offered to play a game at a casino for the cost of one dollar. According to
the rules of the game, you will throw a die and flip a coin after first predicting what the result …

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has refocused attention on the issue of
mandatory vaccination. Some have suggested that vaccines ought to be mandatory, while …

Legal rules and regulations are routinely rationalized by appeal to the incentives they
create. This Note examines an important but misunderstood fact about incentives-namely …

This Essay addresses an anomaly in the law's protection of property ownership. Ex ante, the
owner's right to exclude others from her property receives the highest degree of protection …

Social enforcement, the decentralized action by organizational actors of monitoring,
identifying, and reporting legal violations, is widely recognized as a key factor in ensuring …

The concept of" efficient breach"--the idea that a contracting party should be encouraged to
breach a contract and pay damages if doing so would be more efficient than performance-is …