Adam B. Cox

We are grateful to Rosalind Dixon, Heather Gerken, Rick Hasen, Sam Issacharoff, Jonathan Masur, Rick Pildes, Adam Samaha, Max Schanzenbach, Josh Sellers, Cass Sunstein, Emerson Tiller, Dan Tokaji, and Fred Vars for helpful comments and conversations. We would also like to thank the workshop participants at Northwestern University School of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Yale Law School, the Searle Symposium on Empirical Studies of Civil Liability, and the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Carolyn Sha and Annabelle Yang provided invaluable research assistance.

Many thanks to Rosalind Dixon, Adam Feibelman, Josh Fischman, Heather Gerken, Aziz Huq, Alison LaCroix, Anup Malani, Tom Miles, Courtney Oliva, Rick Pildes, Eric Posner, Arden Rowell, Adam Samaha, Lior Strahilevitz, David Strauss, Adrian Vermeule, and workshop participants at The University of Chicago Law School, Boston University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Tulane University Law School, and The University of Texas School of Law for helpful conversations and comments on earlier drafts. Special thanks also to Jesse Galdston and Louisa Zhou for impeccable research assistance.

Thanks to Emily Berman, Ryan Bubb, Stephen Lee, Nancy Morawetz, Moran Sedah, Peter Schuck, Fred Vars, and workshop participants at The University of Chicago Law School, New York University School of Law, and The University of Alabama School of Law for helpful comments. Thanks also to Kuntal Cholera and David Woolston for research assistance.

Thanks to Ahilan Arulanantham, Ingrid Eagly, Stephen Lee, Courtney Oliva, Margo Schlanger, F. Daniel Siciliano, David Sklansky, participants in The University of Chicago Immigration Law and Institutional Design Symposium, held at The University of Chicago Law School on June 15 and 16, 2012, and participants in workshops at the Law and Society Association, Northwestern University School of Law, and the 2012 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Many thanks also to Elizabeth Alcocer-Gonzalez, Yotam Barkai, Cynthia Benin, Christopher Heasley, Emily Heasley, Ronnie Hutchinson, Charity Lee, Zachary Mayo, Taylor Meehan, Emily Underwood, and Allison Wilkinson for outstanding research assistance. Adam Cox thanks The Filomen D’Agostino and Max E. Greenberg Research Fund for generous support. Thomas Miles thanks the SNR Denton Fund for generous support.