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Please take notice of the change of the delivery deadlines for the topics E-L: The delivery deadline for the commentary and the presentation is Wednesdays, 23.59 h one week before the lesson, where the topic is presented (until now Thursdays one week prior to the lesson).
Comment Assignments (updated November 15th 2012) (PDF, 41 KB)
| 20.09.2012 | Introduction, Subject and Economic Theory | |
| 27.09.2012 | Introduction: 2nd part, Analytic methods and Tools | |
| 04.10.2012 (A) | Property Rights and Markets | |
| 11.10.2012 (B) | Contract Law, Part I | |
| 18.10.2012 (C) | Contract Law, Part II | |
| 25.10.2012 (D) | Tort and Insurance Law, Part I | |
| 01.11.2012 (E) | Tort and Insurance Law, Part II | |
| 08.11.2012 (F) | Criminal Law and Law Enforcement | |
| 15.11.2012 (G) | Intellectual Property Law | |
| 22.11.2012 (H) | Business Law | |
| 29.11.2012 (I) | Public Law: Public Choice, Political Economy | |
| 06.12.2012 (J) | Competition Law | |
| 13.12.2012 (K) | Procedural Law | |
| 20.12.2012 (L) | Environmental Law and Economics |
Cooter, R., Ulen, T., Law and Economics, 6th International Edition, Pearson Addison Wesley, Boston 2011
Posner, R. A., Economic Analysis of Law, Aspen Law and Business, 8th Edition, New York 2010
| Date | Topic | no. | Paper | ||
| 20.09.2012 | Introduction, Subject and Economic Theory | Schlunk, H.J., Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Lawyers, Vanderbildt Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 09-29, 2009, 1-14 | |||
| 27.09.2012 | Introduction: 2nd part, Analytic methods and Tools | ||||
| 04.10.2012 | A | Property Rights and Markets | 1 2 |
Coase R.H. (1960): The Problem of Social Costs, Journal of Law and Economics, 1 - 44 Hermaling B.E. (1995): An Economic Analysis of Takings, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 64 - 86 |
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| 11.10.2012 | B | Contract Law I | 3 4 |
Kronman A.T. (1978): Mistake, Disclosure, Information and the Law of Contracts, Journal of Legal Studies, 1 - 34 Friedman D. (1989): The Efficient Breach Fallacy, The Journal of Legal Studies, 1 - 24 |
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| 18.10.2012 | C | Contract Law II | 5 6 |
Edlin A./Schwarz A. (2003): Optimal Penalties in Contract, 1 - 29 Cohen R.L. (2002): Marriage: The long term contract, The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce, Cambridge |
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| 25.10.2012 | D | Tort and Insurance Law I | 7 8 9 |
Shavell S. (1984): Liability for Harm Versus Regulation of Safety, Journal of Legal Studies, 357 - 374 Sloan F.A./Reilly B.A./Schenzler C. (1995): Effects of Tort Liability and Insurance on Heavy Drinking and Drinking and Driving, Journal of Law and Eocnomics, 49 - 77 Cooter R. (2003): Hand Rule Damages for Incompensable Loses, 40 San Diego Law Review, 1097 - 1121 |
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| 1.11.2012 | E | Tort and Insurance Law II | 10 11 12 |
Schwartz G.T. (1994): Reality in the Economic Analysis of Tort Law: Does Tort Law Really Deter? 42 UCLA Shukaitis M. J.(1987), A Market in Personal Injury Tort Claims, The Journal of Legal Studies, 329 - 349 Rubin, P. H.,Shepherd, J., Tort Reform and Acci-dental Deaths, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, 2007, pp. 221-238 |
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| 08.11.2012 | F | Criminal Law and Law Enforcement | 13 14 |
Levitt S. D. (2004): Understanding why Crime fell in the 1990´s: Four Factors that explain the Decline and six that do not, Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, No. 1, 163-190 Ehrlich I. (1975): The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death, 65 American Economic Review, 397 |
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| 15.11.2012 | G | Intellectual Property Law | 15 16 |
Van Pottelsberghe B. (2009), Lost property: The European patent system and why it doesn't work, Bruegel Blueprint Depoorter P./Parisi F. (2002): Fair use and copyright protection: a price theory explanation, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 21, 453-473 |
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| 22.11.2012 | H | Business Law | 17 18 |
Baysinger B.D./Butler H. N. (1985): The Role of Corporate Law in the Theory of the Firm, 28 Journal of Law and Economics, 179-191 Bebchuk L./Cohen A. (2003): Firms' Decisions Where to Incorporate, Journal of Law and Economics, 1-43 |
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| 29.11.2012 | I | Public Law: Public Choice, Political Economy | 19 20 |
Stigler G. (1971): The Theory of Economic Regulation, 2 Bell Journal of Economics and Managment Science, 3-21 Rubin, P. H., Public Choice and Tort Reform, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 04-09, 2004, 1-21 |
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| 06.12.2012 | J | Competition Law | 21 22 |
Posner R. A. (1979): The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis, 127 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 925 ff. Shugart II W.F. (1996): Monopoly and the Problem of Economists, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust, 217-230 |
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| 13.12.2012 | K | Procedural Law | 23 24 25 |
Daughety A./Reinganum J. (2005), Economic Theories of Settlement Bargaining, Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, 35-59 Donohue III J. J. (1991): Opting for the British Rule, or If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 5, 1093-1119 Schkade, D., Sunstein, C. R., Kahneman, D., Are Juries Less Erratic than Individuals? Deliberation, Polarization, and Punitive Damage, University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law and Eco-nomics Working Paper, No. 81, 1999, S. 1-46 |
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| 20.12.2012 | L | Environmental Law and Economics | 26 27 |
Endres A./Ohl C. (2005): Kyoto, Europe? - An Economic Evaluation of the European Emission Trading Directive, European Journal of Law and Economics, 19, 17-39 Yandle B. (1999): Public choice at the Intersection of Environmental Law and Economics, European Journal of Law and Economics, 8, 5-27 |
