Economic models of disputes often assume that the rules of the game are well understood and that parties know the possible consequences of their actions. In this paper we show the apparently unintended consequences of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes that took place in the...

It is something of a truism that the organizational documents we prepare are only relied upon by our clients in times of disagreement and conflict. Seldom, during the pendency of a successful venture in which the participants view themselves as receiving their justly deserved benefits, will the...