Eric A. Posner
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Professional Experience:
The Regulation of Groups: The Influence of Legal and Nonlegal Sanctions on Collective Action, 63 U. Chi. L. Rev. 133 (1996).
Law, Economics, and Inefficient Norms, 144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1697 (1996).
Norms, Formalities, and the Statute of Frauds: A Comment, 144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1971 (1996).
The Legal Regulation of Religious Groups, 2 Legal Theory 33 (1996).
Altruism, Status, and Trust in the Law of Gifts and Gratuitous Promises, 1997 Wisc. L. Rev. 567 (1997).
The Political Economy of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 47 (1997).
Standards, Rules, and Social Norms, 21 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Policy 101 (1997).
The Parol Evidence Rule, the Plain Meaning Rule, and the Principles of Contractual Interpretation, 146 U. Pa. L. Rev. 533 (1998).
Symbols, Signals, and Social Norms in Politics and the Law, 27 J. Legal Stud. 765 (1998).
Efficient Norms, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman, ed.): Macmillan (1998).
The Strategic Basis of Principled Behavior: A Critique of the Incommensurability Thesis, 146 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1185 (1998).
The Demand for Human Cloning, in Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein, eds.): W.W. Norton (1998). (With Richard A. Posner.) (Reprinted, with a postscript, in 27 Hofstra L. Rev. 579.)
Notes Toward a Theory of Customary International Law, 92 ASIL Proceedings 53 (1998). (With Jack L. Goldsmith.)
A Positive Theory of Chapter 11, 74 NYU Law Rev. 161 (1999). (With Kevin A. Kordana.)
Contract Remedies: Foreseeability, Precaution, Causation, and Mitigation, in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest, eds.): Edward Elgar (forthcoming 1999).
The Decline of Formality in Contract Law, in The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (Frank Buckley, ed.): Duke University Press (forthcoming 1999).
Family Law and Social Norms, in The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (Frank Buckley, ed.): Duke University Press (forthcoming 1999).
Shaming White Collar Criminals under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 42 J. Law & Econ. 365 (1999). (With Dan M. Kahan.)
Arbitration and the Harmonization of International Commercial Law: A Defense of Mitsubishi, 39 Va. J. Intern'l Law 647 (1999).
A Theory of Customary International Law, 66 U.Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming 1999). (With Jack L. Goldsmith.)
Law and Social Norms (book manuscript, forthcoming Harvard University Press, 2000).
Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, 109 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 1999). (With Matthew Adler.)
Relational Contracts and Incompetent Courts, Northwestern U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 1999 or 2000).
Work in Progress:
Should Debtors Be Forced into Chapter 13?
The Evolution of Constitutions.
Review of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law.
Simplicity and Complexity in Contracts (with Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser).
Agency Theory in Law and Economics (Coase Lecture).
Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics (book manuscript; editor).
Law and Economics (book manuscript; editor).
Contract Law and Theory (book manuscript).
10/21/93: Wharton Public Policy and Management Seminar: Contract Law in the Welfare State.
3/8/94: Harvard Law and Economics Seminar: Contract Law in the Welfare State.
9/23/94: Penn Legal Studies Workshop: The Regulation of Groups.
1/11/95: Georgetown Law and Economics Seminar: The Regulation of Groups.
1/17/95: University of Chicago Law and Economics Seminar: The Regulation of Groups.
2/10/95: Penn Topics in Legal Theory Seminar: The Legal Regulation of Religious Groups.
2/13/95: Penn Legal Studies Workshop: Comment on Bernstein, Project Summary.
3/9/95: University of Southern California Law and Economics Seminar: The Regulation of Groups.
3/16/95: Boston University School of Law: The Legal Regulation of Religious Groups.
5/12/95: American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Berkeley: The Regulation of Groups.
2/9/96: University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium on Law, Economics, and Norms: (1) Law, Economics, and Inefficient Norms; (2) Norms, Formalities, and Codes in Contract Law: A Comment
2/28/96: University of Toronto Law School: Law, Economics, and Inefficient Norms.
5/11/96: American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago: Law, Economics, and Inefficient Norms.
7/13/96: Law and Society Conference, Glasgow, Scotland: Altruism, Trust, and Status in the Law of Gifts and Gratuitous Promises.
9/17/96: George Mason Law School: The Parol Evidence Rule, the Plain Meaning Rule, and Related Rules of Contract Interpretation.
9/24/96: Harvard Law and Economics Seminar: Altruism, Status, and Trust in the Law of Gifts and Gratuitous Promises.
11/15/96: University of Virginia Law School: The Political Economy of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
2/15/97: University of Wisconsin Law Review Symposium on Law and Economics and Law and Society: Altruism, Status, and Trust in the Law of Gifts and Gratuitous Promises.
3/1/97: Federalist Society Conference on Law and Economics and the Rule of Law, Duke University: The Legal Economist as Social Engineer: A Critique.
4/18/97: Conference on Social Norms, Social Meaning, and the Economic Analysis of Law, University of Chicago Law School: Symbols, Signals, and Social Norms in Politics and the Law.
4/25/97: Bankruptcy Roundtable, sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania: The Political Economy of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
5/9/97: American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto: Symbols, Signals, and Social Norms in Politics and the Law.
6/20/97: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Conference on Financing Constitutional Identity: Autonomy and Welfare in the Regulatory State.
9/12/97: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law: A Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis.
10/4/97: Donner Conference on Family Law, Alexandria, Virginia: Family Law and Social Norms.
10/23/97: University of Chicago Law School: Shaming Penalties in the Criminal Law.
10/28/97: University of Chicago, Workshop on Rational Models in the Social Sciences: The Demand for Human Cloning (with Richard A. Posner).
11/4/97: University of Chicago Law and Economics Seminar: Law Without Design.
12/13/97: University of Chicago Law School and John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Conference on Penalties: Shaming White Collar Criminals: A Proposal for Reform of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (with Dan M. Kahan).
1/29/98: Stanford Law and Economics Seminar: Law and Cooperation.
2/7/98: University of Pennsylvania Conference on Incommensurability and the Law: The Strategic Basis of Principled Behavior: A Critique of the Incommensurability Thesis.
3/2/98: University of California at Berkeley Law and Economics Seminar: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
4/2/98: American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.: Notes Toward a Theory of International Law (with Jack L. Goldsmith).
4/17/98: NYU Law School: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
4/30/98: University of Michigan Law and Economics Seminar: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
5/8/98: American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Berkeley: Voting Rules in Chapter 11 (with Kevin Kordana).
9/8/98: University of Chicago Law School: A Theory of Customary International Law (with Jack Goldsmith).
9/11/98: University of Virginia Law School, Sokol Colloquium on Private International Law: Arbitration and the Harmonization of International Commercial Law: A Defense of Mitsubishi.
9/14/98: Georgetown University Law Center: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
9/23/98: Yale Law and Economics Seminar: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
10/22/98: Vanderbilt Law School: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
11/20/98: Loyola University New Orleans School of Law: A Theory of Customary International Law.
1/7/99: Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans: The Political Economy of State Property Exemptions.
1/29/99: Northwestern University School of Law: Symposium on Relational Contract Theory: Unanswered Questions: Relational Contracts and Incompetent Courts.
3/2/99: University of Chicago Law and Economics Seminar: Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Matthew Adler).
4/1/99: University of Minnesota Law School: Law, Cooperation, and Rational Choice.
4/16/99: John M. Olin Conference on Law and Evolution, Georgetown Law School: The Evolution of Constitutions.
4/26/99: UCLA Conference on the Political Economy of Contractual Obligations: The Case of Bankruptcy Law: The Political Economy of State Property Exemptions.
5/8/99: American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT: The Political Economy of State Property Exemptions.
7/15/99: University of Chicago Law School: Simplicity and Complexity in Contracts.
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