The peer review process typically has multiple evaluators. Too often editors rely on the Union Heuristic, which requires authors to perform all requested tests and extensions suggested by referees and editors, with results confirming the paper’s message. The Union Heuristic is easy, but has...

Though both the U.S. Constitution and the Michigan Constitution say that property shall not be taken for public use quot;without just compensation,quot; court interpretations of various laws and regulations have undermined that principle. Owners are usually awarded compensation in the courts...

Conflicts created by concurrences and pluralities in court decisions create confusion in law and lower court interpretation. Rule of law values require that individuals be able to identify controlling legal principles. That task is complicated when pluralities and concurrences contribute to the...

A paradigm shift is underway. The corporation -- much reviled as an externalizing, short-termist, inward-focused, politically manipulative machine – is undergoing a fundamental change. A real metamorphosis.This is good news. Capitalism has developed mechanisms to start a transformation of the...

<p>Despite the crucial importance of high quality reviewing for the scientific process, new scholars often learn how to do this based on casual advice and trial-and-error learning. We offer a checklist that helps referees systematically develop high quality referee reports and avoid some of the...</p>

Die Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts umweht in Deutschland immer noch der Hauch des Exotischen. In diesem Beitrag soll begründet werden, warum das ökonomische Entscheidungsmodell ganz hervorragend dazu geeignet ist, die Verhaltensfolgen von Gesetzen zu prognostizieren. Deshalb kann die ÖAR...

This paper empirically models the longer-run deep-seated shift in intellectual thinking that followed the Chicago School’s criticism of the older antitrust doctrine, the shorter-run driving forces related to switches of the political party in power, merger waves, changes in economic activity...

In the work, The Great Recession and the Rhetorical Canons of Law and Economics, 58 LOY. L. REV. 101 (forthcoming, 2012), the Author examined the role of law and economics in the Great Recession of 2008 and onward by examining neoclassical and contemporary law and economics from the perspective...

The growing movement toward the enclosure of plow land for sheep grazing was causing a great displacement of the farm population. The armies gathered together for the War of the Roses were disbanded. The country was overrun with roaming bands who took their gain where they found it, robbed,...

This essay addresses issues related to the History of Economic Thought, Comparative Economic Analysis, and Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands...