Syllabus |
Part I: Ideas |
| Week | Topic | Chapter | Additional Reading |
| 3/31 | Intro | 1,2 | "Law and Economics" |
| 4/2 | Externalities | "The World According to Coase," | |
| 4/7 | Insurance | ||
| 4/11 | The Legal System | ||
| 4/14 | No Class | ||
| 4/16 | Ex Ante/Ex Post | ||
| 4/18 | Property v Liability | ||
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Part II: Law |
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| 4/21 | Property | 3 | "Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights" |
| "The Problem of Social Cost" | |||
| "Standards As Intellectual Property" pp. 1109-1119 | |||
| 4/28 | Contract Law | 4 | |
| 5/5 | Family Law | 5 | "Marriage, Divorce, and Quasi Rents" |
| 5/7 | Review | ||
| 5/9 | Midterm | ||
| 5/12 | Tort Law | 6 | [Review of Economic Analysis of Accident Law] |
| 5/19 | Criminal law | 7 | "Should the Characteristics of Victims and Criminals Count?" pp. 731-751. |
| 5/26 | Alternatives | "Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case." | |
| "Less Law than Meets the Eye," | |||
| ["Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century,"] | |||
| ["Rational Criminals and Profit-Maximizing Police"] | |||
| 6/2 | Review | 8 | |
[]: Optional Reading--will be available in the library and on my web page