Economic Analysis of Law: Preliminary Syllabus
Assignments should be read by the first class of each week. The text is D. Friedman, Law's Order. Both a draft in HTML and page images of the final version are webbed. The page images are there to support links to the virtual footnotes.

"The Problem of Social Cost," by Ronald Coase, will be on reserve in the library. It is also available online, but requires JSTOR access, which I think we can get through our library--but I have not checked.




Week
Chapter
Topics



8/13

 Introduction, 1, 2

 Economic Analysis of Law, Efficiency

8/20

3,4

Externalities

8/27

5,  The Problem of Social Cost

Designing Legal Rules

9/3 (1 day)

6,7

Economics of Risk, Ex Post vs Ex Ante Enforcement

9/10

8, 9

Game Theory, Value of Life
9/17
 Review

9/24

 Midterm

10/1

 10
 Property
10/10 (1 day) 11
 Intellectual Property
10/15
 12,13,  From China to Cyberspace Contract and Family Law

10/22

 14
 Tort

10/29

15

Crime

11/5

16

Antitrust
11/12
 17,18
Some Very Different Systems of Legal Rules
11/19
 19, Epilog
 Is the Common Law Efficient?
11/21
 Last Class
  Review
12/14
 Short paper—L&E arguments for one side of a real case—due.

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