Federal courts in the United States hear over 50,000 appeals a year and state courts hear approximately 300,000. Over 250,000 of these appeals are duds. Certainly a great amount of resources are wasted in these losing appeals, many of which likely had little chance of success. Professor Steven Shave...

Update: Audio of this talk is now available. Professor Omri Ben-Shahar spoke on the "Myths of Consumer Protection" at this year’s annual Ronald H. Coase lecture for first year law students. Ben-Shahar discussed why he believes the modern consumer protection movement is largely misguided. Consumer ...

In the mid 90s, Nike ran a commercial extolling the virtues of letting high school girls play sports. “If you let me play, I will . . .� Many studies have backed up Nike’s commercial, showing that those who play sports make more money, receive more schooling, are more self confident, etc. Howe...

United States' cost-benefit analyses on global warming do not currently account for any loss Americans would feel if global warming harmed foreign countries. This may cause policymakers to underestimate the potential costs of global warming to American citizens. But including them raises a couple of...

Professor Dean Lueck recently presented his paper (with Gary Libecap), The Demarcation of Land: Patterns and Economic Effects, at the Law and Economics Workshop. This is a forum where academic working papers are presented and discussed among interested faculty and students. The two predominant ways ...