This essay is the Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law. After briefly surveying the origins of modern economic analysis of corporate law, it analyzes leading developments in recent decades. Major developments in the law and economics of corporate law have in...

Law has spent surprisingly little time developing a theory of human nature. Its efforts have largely focused on the abnormal - notably, those not responsible for their actions by reason of mental illness or diminished capacity. The normal has barely been addressed. Law and economics embeds a...

This is the introduction to a symposium, The New Realism in Business Law and Economics, published in the Wisconsin Law Review. The symposium features papers from Afra Afsharipour, Robert Anderson IV, Elizabeth deFontenay, Sean Griffith, Mitu Gulati (with Steven Choi and Robert Scott), Claire...