This paper distinguishes law and economics – conceived as an equal partnership between two disciplines – and economic analysis of law, conceived as the application of economic reasoning to legal rules and institutions. I explore the difference by contrasting Robert Aumann's economic analysis...

The economic analysis of ancient law assumes that neither human nature nor the fundamental problems of economic organization were substantially different in ancient times than they are today. Given those assumptions, ancient social organization, including ancient law, can be analysed in economic...

Drawing on two hand-collected data sets of 10,466 state supreme court cases from 2019 and 7,354 state supreme court cases from 2003, this study examines patterns of citations to prior opinions of courts located in other states. We find robust evidence that state supreme courts preferentially...