The Journal of Legal Studies

Title Publication Date Language Citations
A Fine is a Price2000/01/01English975
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers1974/01/01English895
The Selection of Disputes for Litigation1984/01/01English661
Opting out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry1992/01/01English415
The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest2005/01/01English380
Strict Liability versus Negligence1980/01/01English325
Entitlements, Rights, and Fairness: An Experimental Examination of Subjects' Concepts of Distributive Justice1985/06/01English322
Crime, Deterrence, and Right‐to‐Carry Concealed Handguns1997/01/01English307
An Economic Approach to Legal Procedure and Judicial Administration1973/06/01English301
Toward an Economic Theory of Liability1973/06/01English289
Rent Extraction and Rent Creation in the Economic Theory of Regulation1987/01/01English252
Why Is the Common Law Efficient?1977/01/01English246
The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right2001/06/01English232
What Is Privacy Worth?2013/06/01English230
The Common Law Process and the Selection of Efficient Rules1977/01/01English226
Suit, Settlement, and Trial: A Theoretical Analysis under Alternative Methods for the Allocation of Legal Costs1982/01/01English226
Expressive Law And Economics1998/06/01English210
An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law1989/06/01English208
The Economics of Legal Conflicts1973/06/01English206
A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law1981/06/01English204
Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation1996/01/01English195
Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges1998/06/01English192
Liability for Harm versus Regulation of Safety1984/06/01English181
The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach1994/06/01English167
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?2012/06/01English164
Sequential versus Unitary Trials: An Economic Analysis1993/01/01English162
The Economic Underpinnings of Patent Law1994/01/01English158
A Theory of Negligence1972/01/01English158
Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pretrial Bargaining1993/01/01English151
Politics and the Judiciary: The Influence of Judicial Background on Case Outcomes1995/06/01English146