Law and Economics

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Book review
75.1
Economics as Context for Contract Law
George S. Geis
Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Law, 2007–2008

Thanks to Victor Goldberg, Jody Kraus, Darian Ibrahim, and Eric Posner for helpful comments.

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Essay
75.1
Privacy, Surveillance, and Law
Richard A. Posner
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago

This is a revised draft of my talk at The University of Chicago Law School’s Surveillance Symposium, June 15–16, 2007. I draw heavily on my books Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency ch 6 (Oxford 2006) and Countering Terrorism: Blurred Focus, Halting Steps ch 7 (Rowman & Littlefield 2007).

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Article
76.1
A Market in Litigation Risk
Jonathan T. Molot
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

My thanks to Michael Abramowicz, Brad Clark, John Duffy, Howell Jackson, Geoffrey Miller, Richard Nagareda, Robert Rhee, Bill Rubenstein, Anthony Sebok, Mark Spindel, and participants in faculty workshops at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and George Washington University Law School.

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Article
76.1
Public Ownership, Firm Governance, and Litigation Risk
Eric L. Talley
Professor of Law and Co-director, Berkeley Center in Law, Business and the Economy, UC Berkeley School of Law; Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Senior Economist (Adjunct), RAND Corporation

Thanks to Robert Bartlett, Alicia Davis-Evans, Todd Henderson, Kim Hogrief, Arthur Levitt, Patrick McGurn, Nell Minow, Maureen Mulligan, Adam Pritchard, Robert Reville, two anonymous referees, and conference participants at The University of Chicago Law School, University of Michigan, and the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section for helpful comments and discussions, and to the RAND Corporation Institution for Civil Justice for generous support. Many thanks as well to the Corporate Library for granting me access to their data. All errors are mine.

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Article
76.1
Does Private Equity Create Wealth? The Effects of Private Equity and Derivatives on Corporate Governance
Ronald W. Masulis
Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Vanderbilt University
Randall S. Thomas
John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business, Vanderbilt University Law School

The authors would like to thank Harry DeAngelo, Todd Henderson, James Spindler, Robert Thompson, Charles Whitehead, the Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, the University of Pennsylvania Law School Business Law Scholarship Workshop, and the participants of The University of Chicago Symposium, The Going-private Phenomenon: Causes and Implications, for their helpful comments.

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Article
76.2
Passive Discrimination: When Does It Make Sense to Pay Too Little?
Jonah Gelbach
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
Jonathan Klick
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Lesley Wexler
Assistant Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law

Many thanks to Curtis Bridgeman, Fred Gedicks, Steve Gey, Mike Zimmer, participants at the 2008 Midwest Law and Economics Association annual meeting, and participants in the Second Annual Labor and Employment Law Colloquium for comments.