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Cornell Law School
Cornell University Library
Stewart J. Schwab 
Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
Books
Foundations of Labor and Employment Law (edited with Samuel Estreicher) (New York: Foundation Press, 2000).
Casebooks
Employment Law: Cases and Materials, (Lexis Law Publishers; with S. Willborn, J. Burton, & G. Lester, 1st ed. 1993, 2d ed. 1998, 3d ed. 2002, 4th ed. 2007).

Statutory Supplement to Employment Law : Selected Federal and State Statutes (Lexis Law Publishers; with S. Willborn, J. Burton Jr., G. Lester)

Contributions to Books
Age and Disability Within the Scope of American Discrimination Law ( with Garth Glissman) Chapter 8 in Disability and Aging Discrimination in Law: Perspevctives in Law and Psychology (Springer 2011).
"Affirmative Action in Higher Education over the Next Twenty-Five Years" (with S.D. O'Connor), in The Next Twenty-Five Years? Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa 58-73 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; David L. Featherman, Martin Hall & Marvin Krislov, eds., 2010).
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"Employment Discrimination" in Labor and Employment Law and Economics 296-319 (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar; K. G. Dau-Schmidt, S. D. Harris & O. Lobel eds., 2009).
"A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions," in Experimental Law and Economics (Edward Elgar Pub; J. Arlen, and E. Talley, eds., 2008).
"Predicting the Future of Employment Law," in Global Issues in Employment Law (West, Samuel Estreicher, Miriam Cherry eds., 2008), excerpted from 76 Indiana Law Journal 29 (2001).
"The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws," in Economics of Labor and Employment Law (Northhampton, Ma. : Edward Elgar Pub.; J. Donohue, ed. 2007); reprinted from 88 Review of Economics & Statistics 211-31(2006).
"The Role of Labor Law in Corporate Restructuring in the United States," in Japanese Journal of Labour Studies (2002, with Japanese translation) (also published in English in Japan Institute of Labour Report 2002 no. 10)
"Life-Cycle Justice: Accomodating Just Cause and Employment At Will," in Economics of Labor and Employment Law (Northhampton, Ma. : Edward Elgar Pub.; J. Donohue, ed. 2007); reprinted from 92 Michigan Law Review 8 (1993).
"The Story of Hazelwood: Employment Discrimination by the Numbers" (with S. Willborn), in Employment Discrimination Stories 37-63(Foundation Press, Joel Wm. Friedman, ed., 2006).
"The United States" in Corporate Restructuring and the Role of Labour Law chapter 9(The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, R. Blanpain et al. eds., 2003).
"The Cathedral at Twenty-Five:  Citations and Impressions," in Perspectives on Property Law (Robert C. Ellickson, Bruce A. Ackerman, and Carol M. Rose, eds. 3d ed. 2002). Reprinted/adapted from 106 Yale Law Journal 2121 (1997).
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"An Empirical Study of Sexual Harassment Litigation, 1986–1996: Some Preliminary Findings" (with A. Juliano), in NYU Working Papers on Labor and Employment Law: 1998-1999 (Boston, MA: Kluwer Law International, M. Yelnosky, ed. 2001).
"Union Raids, Union Democracy, and the Market for Union Control," in The Internal Governance and Organizational Effectiveness of Trade Unions:  Essays in Honor of George Brooks Ch. 16 (S. Estreicher, Harry C. Katz, and Bruce E. Kaufman, eds. 2001), reprinted from 1992 University of Illinois Law Review 367.
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"Employment Discrimination," in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Vol. 3 (Northampton, MA:  Edwin Elgar Publishing, Boudewijn Bouckaert & Gerrit De Geest, eds. 2000).
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"Predicting the Future of Employment Law," in Global Competition and the American Employment Landscape As We Enter the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of New York University’s 52nd Annual Conference ch.36 (Boston: Kluwer Law International, Samuel Estreicher, ed. 2000); reprinted from 76 Indiana Law Journal 29 (2001); excerpted in Global Issues in Employment Law (West, 2008).
"Child Custody," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (London:  Macmillan; N.Y.:  Stockton Press, Peter Newman, ed. 1998).
"Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions" (with Randall Thomas), in Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace:  Alternatives/Supplements to Collective Bargaining (Samuel Estsreicher, ed. 1998); reprinted from 96 Michigan Law Review 1018 (1998).
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"Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions" (with Randall Thomas), in International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, William Bratton, ed. 2000); reprinted from 96 Michigan Law Review 1018 (1998).
"A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions," in A Law and Economics Anthology (Anderson Pub. Co., Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Thomas S. Ulen, eds. 1997).  Excerpted from 17 Journal of Legal Studies 237 (1988).
"The Law and Economics Approach to Workplace Regulation," in Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship (IRRA, Bruce E. Kaufman, ed. 1997).
"The Many Contingent Workers and the Need for Nuanced Policy," in Proceedings of New York University 49th Annual Conference on Labor Ch. 9 (Kluwer Law International, 1997).  Reprinted from 52 Washington & Lee Law Review 915 (1995).
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"The Reality of Constitutional Tort Litigation," in Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Handbook (Jules Lobel and Barbara M. Wolvovitz, eds. 1987).  Preliminary, condensed version of 72 Cornell Law Review 641 (1987).
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"The Unemployment Rate:  Time to Give it a Rest?," in Readings in Economics 78/79 42 (Dushkin Publishing Group, 1978).  Reprinted from Philadelphia Fed. Business Review (1977).
Articles
"Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?" (with Kevin Clermont), 3 Harvard Law and Policy Review 103 (2009).
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"The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws" (with D. Autor and J. Donohue), 88 Review of Economics & Statistics 211 (2006); reprinted in Economics of Labor and Employment Law, (Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, Ma. : Edward Elgar Pub., John J. Donohue III, ed. 2007).
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"An Empirical Analysis of CEO Employoment Contracts:  What Do Top Executive Bargain For?" (with Randall S. Thomas), 63 Washington & Lee Law Review 231-70 (2006).
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"Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases:  A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman, Valerie P. Hans, Martin T. Wells), 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 171-206 (2005).
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"The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharage Laws:  Large, Small, or None at All?" (with D. Autor & J. Donohue), 93 American Economic Review 440-46 (May 2004).
"What Do CEOs Bargain For? An Empirical Study of Key Legal Components of CEO Employment Contracts" (with Randall S. Thomas)(Posted April 15, 2004).
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"How Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Fare in Federal Court" (with Kevin M. Clermont), 1 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 429-58 (2004).
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Empirical Studies:  How Do Discrimination Cases Fare in Court?" (Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Section on Employment Discrimination, Panelist with Monique C. Lillard and Ruth Colker) 7 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 533-545 (2004).
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"How Employment-Discrimination Plaintiffs Fare in the Federal Courts of Appeals" (with Kevin M. Clermont and Theodore Eisenberg), 7 Employee Rights and Empoyment Policy Journal 547-67 (2004).
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"Reasonable Accommodation of Workplace Disabilities" (with Steven L. Willborn),  44 William & Mary Law Review 1197-284 (2003).
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"Studying Labor Law and Human Resources in Rhode Island," 7 Roger Williams University Law Review 383-98 (2002).
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"Megafirms" (with Randall S. Thomas and Robert G. Hansen), 80 North Carolina Law Review 115-98 (2001). Reprinted in 44 Corporate Practice Commentator 31(2002).
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"Predicting the Future of Employment Law: Reflecting or Refracting Market Forces?,"  76 Indiana Law Journal 29-48 (2001).
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"The Sweep of Sexual Harassment Cases" (with Ann Juliano), 86 Cornell Law Review 548-602 (2001).
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"Employment Discrimination," Rivista Italiana Di Diritto Del Lavoro (March 2000).
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"The Employment Contract" (with Ian Ayres), 8 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 71-89 (1999).
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"Panel Discussion of The Excuse Factory," 8 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 53-61 (1999).
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"Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions" (with Randall S. Thomas), 96 Michigan Law Review 1018-94 (1998).
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"The Cathedral at Twenty-Five: Citations and Impressions" (with James E. Krier), 106 Yale Law Journal 2121 (1997).
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"Limited-Domain Positivism as an Empirical Proposition," 82 Cornell Law Review 1111 (1997).
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"Wrongful Discharge Law and the Search for Third-Party Effects," 74 Texas Law Review 1943-78 (1996).
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"The Diversity of Contingent Workers and the Need for Nuanced Policy," 52 Washington and Lee Law Review 915-33 (1995).
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"Politics and The Judiciary: The Influence of Judicial Background on Case Outcomes" (with Orley Ashenfelter and Theodore Eisenberg), 24 Journal of Legal Studies 257-81 (1995).
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"Property Rules and Liability Rules: The Cathedral in Another Light" (with James E. Krier), 70 New York University Law Review 440-83 (1995).
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"Employment Life Cycles and the Employment-At-Will Doctrine," 20 Cornell Law Forum 7-11 (1994).
"Life-Cycle Justice: Accommodating Just Cause and Employment At Will," 92 Michigan Law Review 8-62 (1993).
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"Coase's Twin Towers: The Relation Between The Nature of the Firm and The Problem of Social Cost," 18 Journal of Corporation Law 359-70 (1993).
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"Union Raids, Union Democracy, and the Market for Union Control," 1992 University of Illinois Law Review 367-416 (1992).
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"Coase, Rents, and Opportunity Costs," 38 Wayne Law Review 55-74 (1991).
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"Attorneys, Attorney Fees, and Prisoner Civil Rights Cases" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 16 Cornell Law Forum 6-9 (1989).
"What Shapes Perceptions of the Federal Court System?" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 56 University of Chicago Law Review 501-39 (1989).
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"The Economics Invasion of Labor Law Scholarship," Industrial Relations Research Association 41st Annual Proceedings 236-42 (1989).
"A Coasean Experiment on Contract Presumptions," 17 The Journal of Legal Studies 237-68 (1988).
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"Explaining Constitutional Tort Litigation: The Influence of the Attorney Fees Statute and the Government as Defendant" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 73 Cornell Law Review 719-84 (1988).
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"The Importance of Section 1981" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 73 Cornell Law Review 596-604 (1988).
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"The Reality of Constitutional Tort Litigation" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 72 Cornell Law Review 641-95 (1987).
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"Collective Bargaining and the Coase Theorem," 72 Cornell Law Review 245-87 (1987).
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"Is Statistical Discrimination Efficient?" 76 American Economic Review 228-37 (1986).
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"The Reality of Constitutional Tort Litigation" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 13 Cornell Law Forum 7-11 (1986).
"The Unemployment Rate: Time to Give it a Rest?" Philadelphia Fed. Business Review 1 (May/June 1977).
Book Reviews
"Coase Defends Coase: Why Lawyers Listen and Economists Do Not," 87 Michigan Law Review 1171-98 (1989) (Review of Ronald Coase, The Firm, The Market, and The Law).
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Review of Richard Epstein & Jeffrey Paul, eds., Labor Law and the Employment Market: Foundations and Applications, 40 Industrial & Labor Relations Review 292 (January 1987).
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Review of James Hunt, The Law of the Workplace: Rights of Employers and Employees, 39 Industrial & Labor Relations Review 452 (April 1986).
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Review of A. Mitchell Polinsky, An Introduction to Law and Economics, 35 Journal of Legal Education 142 (March 1985).
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Miscellaneous
"The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws" (with David H. Autor and John J. Donohue, III) (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9425 (December 2002); MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-41; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 243 (Nov. 18, 2002)).
"The Future of Collective Bargaining and New Forms of Employment," report of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security, Montreal Congress, May 1995.
"Civil Rights Statute is Embedded in Our Law" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 123 New Jersey Law Journal, March 23, 1989 at 7.
"The Evidence is Clear: Reversing Anti-Bias Case Would Cause Hardship" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 11 Legal Times, February 20, 1989 at 20.
Constitutional Tort Litigation in Three Districts, the Government as Defendant, and Counsel's Incentives (with Theodore Eisenberg) (Stanford Law and Economics Program Working Paper #46, August 1987).
Stereotypes, Imperfect-Information Theories, and Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1981) (Ph.D. Dissertation).