"Tribute to Bernard Meltzer," 74 University of Chicago Law Review 409 (2007).

"Uncapturing Law School Regulation," 11 Texas Review of Law & Politics 291 (2007).

"Don't privatize future by selling state lottery," Chicago Tribune (February 5, 2007).

"Taxing Obesity - Or Perhaps the Opposite," 53 Cleveland State Law Review 575 (2005/6).

"Citizen Warranties and Majorities," 31 Florida State University Law Review 409 (2004) (Ladd Lecture).

"Insuring Against Terrorism and Crime," 102 Michigan Law Review 268 (2003) (with Kyle Logue).

"Simply Efficient Markets and the Role of Regulation: Lessons from the Iowa Electronic Markets and the Hollywood Stock Exchange," 28 Journal of Corporation Law 589 (2003).

"The Story of the Wagon Mound Cases: Foreseeability, Causation, and Mrs. Palsgraf," in Torts Stories 129, Robert L. Rabin & Stephen D. Sugarman, eds. (2003).

"Property s Uneasy Path and Expanding Future," 70 University of Chicago Law Review 181 (2003).

"Two Stories about the Evolution of Property Rights," 31 Journal of Legal Studies S421 (2002).

"Surprising Admissions," 34 University of Toledo Law Review 113 (2002).

"Ruling Majorities and Reasoning Pluralities," 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law, No. 1, Article 4 (2002).

"Clientele Effects and our Fourth-Best Corporate Tax System," 80 Taxes 21 (March 2002).

"From Cynicism to Positive Theory in Public Choice," 87 Cornell Law Review 375 (2002).

"Puzzling Stock Options and Compensation Norms," 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1901 (2001).

"More than Mere Majorities," 2000 Utah Law Review 759 (Leary/Coif Lecture).

"Speculative Law: Beyond Cigarettes and Swiss Banks," 2000 Daniel J. Meador Lecture, 52 Alabama Law Review 639 (2000).

"Conjunction and Aggregation," 99 Michigan Law Review 723 (2001).

"Norms as Supplements," 86 Virginia Law Review 1989 (2000).

"Voting with Intensity," 53 Stanford Law Review 111 (2000).

"The Public Choice Threat," 67 University of Chicago Law Review 941 (2000).

"Carrots and Torts," Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics 203, Eric Posner, ed. (2000) (Coase Lecture).

"Social Programs and Manageable Units," 8 Am. U. Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 103 (2000) (symposium comment).

"Changes, Anticipations, and Reparations," 99 Columbia Law Review 1657 (1999).

"Double-Blind Lawmaking and other Comments on Formalism in the Tax Law," 66 University of Chicago Law Review 915 (1999) (symposium comment).

"Licensing: Permission Slips in Corporate and Fourth Amendment Law," 93 Northwestern University Law Review 709 (1999).

"Voting Paradoxes and Interest Groups,", 28 Journal of Legal Studies 259 (1999).

"Competition and Cooperation," 97 Michigan Law Review 216 (1998).

"Efficiency and Conspiracy: Conflicts of Interest, Anti-Nepotism Rules, and Separation Strategies," 66 Fordham Law Review 2099 (1998) (Levine Lecture).

"Unjust Enrichment," 3 New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 644 (1998) (essay).

"Retroactive Taxation," 3 New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 340 (1998) (essay).

"Taxes as Ballots", 65 University of Chicago Law Review 387 (1998).

"Joint Custody and Strategic Behavior," 73 Indiana Law Journal 429 (1998) (Symposium Response).

"Judges and Economics: Normative, Positive, and Experimental Perspectives," 21 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 129-33 (1997) (Symposium Comment).

"Fables, Sagas, and Laws," 33 Willamette Law Review 485 (1997) (Paulus Lecture).

"Unifying Remedies: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Startling Rules," 106 Yale Law Journal 2149 (1997).

"Unconditional Relationships," 76 Boston University Law Review 807 (1996) (Lecture).

"The Anonymity Tool," 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2191 (1996).

"Precommitment Politics," 82 Virginia Law Review 567 (1996).

"Coalitions and Quakes: Disaster Relief and its Prevention," 3 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 1 (1996).

"Rethinking Group Responsibility and Strategic Threats in Biblical Texts and Modern Law," 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 85 (1995).

"Love It or Leave It: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Exclusivity of Remedies in Partnership and Marriage," 58 Law and Contemporary Problems 221 (Spring 1995).

"Gomorrah to Ybarra and More: Overextraction and the Puzzle of Immoderate Group Liability," 81 Virginia Law Review 1561 (1995).

"Obligation or Restitution for Best Efforts," 67 University of Southern California Law Review 1411 (1994).

"Explaining Creditor Priorities," 80 Virginia Law Review 2103 (1994) (with Hideki Kanda).

Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford University Press 1994) (edited anthology) (moved to Foundation Press in 1999).

"The Case for Retroactive Taxation," 22 Journal of Legal Studies 265 (1993).

"Commissions and Conflicts in Agency Arrangements: Lawyers, Real Estate Brokers,Underwriters, and Other Agents' Rewards," 36 Journal of Law and Economics 503 (1993).

"Irreversibility and the Law: The Size of Firms and Other Organizations," 18 Journal of Corporation Law 333 (1993). Reprinted at 1994-1995 Corporate Practice Commentator 527.

"Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, and Taxes: A Comment on the Survival of Organizational Forms," 70 Washington University Law Quarterly 489 (1992) (sympo sium comment).

"Bicameralism: When are Two Decisions Better than One?," 12 International Review of Law and Economics 145 (1992).

"Taxes, Agency Costs, and the Price of Incorporation," 77 Virginia Law Review 211 (1991) (with Hideki Kanda). Reprinted at 1991-1992 Corporate Practice Commentator 275.

"On Compensation and Distribution," 33 Nomos 186-92 (1991) (symposium comment).

"Takings, Torts, and Special Interests," 77 Virginia Law Review 1333 (1991).

"Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution, and Recurring Wrongs," 19 Journal of Legal Studies 691 (1990).

"Remedies and Incentives in Private and Public Law: A Comparative Essay," 1990 Wisconsin Law Review 483 (1990) (with William Stuntz).

"Just Compensation and Just Politics," 22 Connecticut Law Review 285 (1990) (Lecture).

"Parliamentary Law, Majority Decisionmaking, and the Voting Paradox," 75 Virginia Law Review 971 (1989).

"Strategic Delays and Fiduciary Duties," 74 Virginia Law Review 863 (1988).

"Recharacterizations and the Nature of Theory in Corporate Tax Law," 136 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1019 (1988).

"In Defense of the Regulation of Insider Trading," 11 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 101 (1988) (Symposium Comment).

"The Positive Role of Tax Law in Corporate and Capital Markets," 12 Journal of Corporation Law 483 (1987).

"Transfusing Tort Law," in Issues in Compensatory Justice: The Bhopal Accident, 48 (R.S. Khare ed. 1987).

"A Primer on the Sale of Corporate Control," 65 Texas Law Review 1061 (1987) (Book Review Essay).

"Variety and Uniformity in the Treatment of the Good-Faith Purchaser," 16 Journal of Legal Studies 43 (1987).

"Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law," 31 Tulane Law Review 235 (1986).

"Waiting for Rescue: An Essay on the Evolution and Incentive Structure of the Law of Affirmative Obligations," 72 Virginia Law Review 879 (1986).

"The Appraisal Remedy and the Goals of Corporate Law," 32 UCLA Law Review 429 (1985) (with Hideki Kanda).

"Explaining Restitution," 71 Virginia Law Review 65 (1985).

"Efficient Markets and Puzzling Intermediaries," 70 Virginia Law Review 645 (1984) (Comment).

"A Reply to Landes: A Faulty Study of No-Fault's Deterrent Effect on Fault," 48 Missouri Law Review 649 (1983) (with Jeffrey O'Connell).

"Interstate Exploitation and Judicial Intervention," 69 Virginia Law Review 563 (1983).

"Monitors and Freeriders in Commercial and Corporate Settings," 92 Yale Law Journal 49 (1982).

"Rescuing Some Antitrust Law: An Essay on Vertical Restrictions and Consumer Information," 67 Iowa Law Review 981 (1982). Reprinted at 1982-1983 Corporate Practice Commentator 561.

"Identifying Section 306 Stock: The Sleeping Beauty of Revenue Ruling 66-332," 2 Virginia Tax Review 59 (1982).

"Self-Assessed Valuation Systems for Tort and Other Law," 68 Virginia Law Review 771 (1982).

"Securities and Secrets: Insider Trading and the Law of Contracts," 68 Virginia Law Review 117 (1982).

"Bank Trust Departments and Float Revenue," 98 Banking Law Journal 817 (1981).

Presentations

The couple ex ante / ex post in the economic regulation theories, Conference on "Ex Ante versus Ex Post," Sciences Po, Les Echos, Le Quotidien de L'Economie (March 14, 2005).

Citizen Warranties (When Governments and Laws Appeal to Mere Majorities), Mason Ladd Lecture, Florida State University (February 2003).

Property's Uneasy Future (and Past), The Eleventh Annual John M. Olin Public Lecture in Law and Economics, Canadian Law and Economics Association Conference, University of Toronto (September 27, 2002).

More than Mere Majorities, Leary - National Order of the Coif Lecture, University of Utah Law School (November 2000).

Voting with Intensity, Georgetown University Law Center, (also presented at faculty workshops at the University of Texas and University of California San Diego Law Schools).

Voting with Intensity and Breach as Mistake, University of Chicago Law School Works-in-Progress Series.

Social Norms for Difficult Law, comment (and paper), University of Virginia Conference on the Legal Construction of Social Norms, February 2000.

Speculating Law: Beyond Cigarettes and Swiss Banks, Daniel Meador Lecture, University of Alabama Law School, February 2000.

Carrots and Torts, Coase Lecture, University of Chicago Law School, February 1999.

Is Paying Research Subjects Ethical?, Ethics Grand Rounds Lecture, National Institutes of Health, April 1999.

Fairness, Efficiency, Conspiracy, Levine Lecture, Fordham Law School, October 1997.

Fables, Sagas, and Laws, Paulus Lecture, Willamette University College of Law, February 1997.

Unsuitable Bargains, Distinguished Visitor Lecture, Boston University Law School, March 1996.

Commencement address: Attention Spans and Due Process, LL.D. (honorary), IIT Chicago-Kent, June 1995.

The Allure of Love-It-or-Leave-It Rules, Enlund Colloquium Lecture, DePaul University College of Law, March 1995.

Democracy and Disasters, Centennial Visitor Lecture, Chicago-Kent College of Law, September 1994.

Just Compensation and Just Politics, Day, Berry & Howard Visiting Scholar Lecture, University of Connecticut School of Law, September 1989.

Works in Progress

Jacob s Interest Rate and Prejudgment Time, (time value in Biblical lore, and then in modern law of prejudgment interest)

Property versus Ideas

Private Reparations, (work in progress on using tax and other systems to privatize reparations decisions)

Uncorporations and State-Federal Competition

Compensation and Gratitude Norms.