Evolution of Efficient Common Law

Edited by the late Paul H. Rubin, formerly Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Paul H. RubinPART ITHE BEGINNINGS 1. Paul H. Rubin (1977), ‘Why is the Common Law Efficient?’2. George L. Priest (1977), ‘The Common Law Process and the Selection of Efficient Rules’3. John C. Goodman (1978), ‘An Economic Theory of the Evolution of Common Law’4. R. Peter Terrebonne (1981), ‘A Strictly Evolutionary Model of Common Law’PART IITHE FIRST CRITICS 5. William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (1979), ‘Adjudication as a Private Good’6. Robert Cooter and Lewis Kornhauser (1980), ‘Can Litigation Improve the Law Without the Help of Judges?’7. Paul H. Rubin (1982), ‘Common Law and Statute Law’8. Peter H. Aranson (1992), ‘The Common Law as Central Economic Planning’PART IIIEVOLUTIONARY CRITICS 9. Jack Hirshleifer (1982), ‘Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law: Cooperation Versus Conflict Strategy’10. Gillian K. Hadfield (1992), ‘Bias in the Evolution of Legal Rules’11. Mark J. Roe (1996), ‘Chaos and Evolution in Law and Economics’12. Oona A. Hathaway (2001), ‘Path Dependence in the Law: The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System’PART IVBIASED EVOLUTION13. Paul H. Rubin and Martin J. Bailey (1994), ‘The Role of Lawyers in Changing the Law’14. Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi (2003), ‘Litigation and the Evolution of Legal Remedies: A Dynamic Model’PART VSPECIFIC APPLICATIONS 15. Bruce L. Benson (1989), ‘The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law’16. Yoram Barzel (2000), ‘Dispute and Its Resolution: Delineating the Economic Role of the Common Law’17. Jeffrey Evans Stake (2005), ‘Evolution of Rules in a Common Law System: Differential Litigation of the Fee Tail and Other Perpetuities’18. Keith N. Hylton (2006), ‘Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution’19. Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1998), ‘Law and Finance’PART VIHAYEKIAN (MACRO) EFFICIENCY 20. Paul G. Mahoney (2001), ‘The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might be Right’21. Todd J. Zywicki (2003), ‘The Rise and Fall of Efficiency in the Common Law: A Supply-Side Analysis’PART VIISUMMING UP 22. Paul H. Rubin (2005), ‘Micro and Macro Legal Efficiency: Supply and Demand’Name Index