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Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension (with P. Heald) (forthcoming), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2012)

The international debate over copyright term extension for existing works turns on the validity of...

 

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Making Sense of Intellectual Property Law, Cornell Law Review (2012)

Intellectual property (IP) scholars have long struggled to explain the boundaries of and differences between...

 

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Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur) (symposium) (forthcoming), Duke Law Journal (2012)

Cost-benefit analysis is the primary tool used by policymakers to inform administrative decisionmaking. Yet its...

 

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

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

In a prior article, we argued that punishment theorists need to take into account the...

 

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

In this article we report on the results of an experiment we performed to determine...

 

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

Perhaps the most important goal of law and policy is improving people’s lives. But what...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property (with C. Sprigman and Z. Burns) (2012)

This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of...

 

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