Professor Buccafusco joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2009 and was voted Professor
of the Year by the Student Bar Association for 2009-10. He teaches torts and copyright
law. His research interests include intellectual property law, behavioral law and
economics, law and psychology, and legal history. His recent work focuses on
psychological challenges to legal notions of rationality and on the application of
happiness research to the law. His published articles have appeared in the Columbia Law
Review, University of Chicago Law Review (twice), California Law Review, Cornell Law
Review, and Georgetown Law Journal. 

Professor Buccafusco is a Ph.D. candidate in legal history at the University of Chicago.
He graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2004 and earned a B.S.
degree from Georgia Tech in 2001. Before coming to Chicago-Kent, Professor Buccafusco
taught for a year as a visiting faculty member at the University of Illinois College of
Law.

Law & Psychology

Retribution and the Experience of Punishment (with J. Bronsteen and J. Masur), California Law Review (2010)
 

Valuing Intellectual Property: An Experiment (with C. Sprigman), Cornell Law Review (2010)
 

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Welfare as Happiness (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur), Georgetown Law Journal (2010)
 

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Happiness and Punishment (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur), University of Chicago Law Review (2009)

This article continues our project to apply groundbreaking new literature on the behavioral psychology of...

 

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Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur), Columbia Law Review (2008)

This paper examines the burgeoning psychological literature on happiness and hedonic adaptation (a person's capacity...

 

Evidence

Review of David H. Kaye, The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence, 29 Law and History Review 642 (2011)
 

Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Visual Evidence in Perspective, Popular Culture and Law (2006)
 

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Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Visual Evidence in Perspective, University of Miami Law Review (2004)
 

Intellectual Property

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The Creativity Effect (with C. Sprigman), University of Chicago Law Review (2011)
 

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On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller's Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2007)

The restaurant industry now takes in over $500 billion a year, but recent courts have...