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Articles
"The Delaware Death Penalty: An Empirical Study," (with Sheri Lynn Johnson,Theordore Eisenberg, Valerie P. Hans & Martin T. Wells) 97 Iowa Law Review 1925 (2011-2012).
"Convicting Lenny: Mental Retardation, Wrongful Convictions and the Right to a Fair Trial," (with Sherri Johnson & Susan E. Millor) 56 New York Law School Law Review 943 (2011).

Articles
"Congress's Constitution," 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 715 (2012).
Book Reviews
"Multiplicity in Federalism and the Separation of Powers," 120 Yale Law Journal 1084 (2011). (reviewing Alison L. LaCroix, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (2010)).

Articles
"Class Certification’s Preclusive Effects," 159 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra, 203-230 (2011); Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-17 (2011).

Articles
"Spandrel or Frankenstein's Monster? The Vices and Virtues of Retrofitting in American Law," 54 William and Mary Law Review 339 (2012) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-61 (2013).
"Coming Off the Bench: Legal and Policy Implications of Proposals to Allow Retired Justices to Sit by Designation on the Supreme Court" (with Lisa McElroy), 61 Duke Law Journal 81 (2011).
"Same-Sex Marriage, Second-Class Citizenship, and Law’s Social Meanings", 97 Virginia
Law Review
1267 (2011).
"The Constitution and the Political Community," 27 Constitutional Commentary 499 (2011).
"The Marginality of Citizens United," 20 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 739 (2011).
Electronic Publications
Bi-Weekly column on FindLaw.com (essays archived at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/), with many appearing at CNN.com.

Articles
"Does the Judge Matter? Exploiting Random Assignments on a Court of Last Resort to Assess Judge & Case Selection Effects," (with Talia Fisher & Issachar Rosen-Zvi) 9 Journal of  Empirical Legal Research 246 (2012). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-33.
"Actual Versus Perceived Performance of Judges," ( with Talia Fisher and Issi Rosen-Zvi ) 35 Seattle University Law Rview 695 (2012) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-23 (2012).
" The Effect of Contract Regulation on Franchising," (by Jonathan Klick, Bruce H. Kobayashi, and Larry E. Ribstein) (comment by Theodore Eisenberg 54-57 and Andreas Roider 58 - 61) 168  Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 38 ( 2012).

Articles
" Rulemaking vs. Democracy; Judging and Nudging Public Participation that Counts," (with Mary Newhart and Josiah Heidt) 2 Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law Issue 1 (2012) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-20 (2012).
"Rulemaking 2.0," (with Mary Newhart, Claire Cardie, Dan Cosley, CeRI), 65 University of Miami Law Review 395 (2011).
"Rulemaking in 140 Characters or Less: Social Networking and Public Participation in Rulemaking," (with Paul Miller, Mary J. Newhart, Claire Cardie, Dan Cosley, and Rebecca Vernon) 31 Pace Law Review 382 (2011).

Contributions to Books
"Digitizing the World's Laws," forthcoming in International Legal Information Management Handbook (Ashgate, 2010).

Working Papers
"To Dollars from Sense: Qualitative to Quantitative Translation in Jury Damage Awards", Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-25 (2011).
Articles
"Japan’s New Lay Judge System: Deliberative Democracy in Action?" (with Corey, Zachary), 12 Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 72-94 (2010).
"The Predictability of Juries" (with T. Eisenberg), 60 DePaul Law Review 375 (2011).
"The French Jury at a Crossroads" (with Claire Germain), 86 Chicago-Kent Law Review 737 (2011).

Contributions to Books
"Facilitating Practices," in Issues in Competition Law and Policy, Vol II (Chicago : ABA Section of Antitrust Law; Wayne D Collins, Joseph Angland eds., 2008), p. 1189
Articles
"A tale of two cities: From Davids Holdings to Metcash," (with E. Jane Murdoch) Centre County Legal Journal (2013) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-10 (2013).

Working Papers
"Muslims and Religious Liberty in the Era of 9/11: Empirical Evidence from the Federal Courts", Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper (2011).
"Religion, Schools, and Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Perspective", Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-28 (2011).
Articles
"The Gross Beast of Burden of Proof: Experimental Evidence on how the Burden of Proof Influences Employment Discrimination Case Outcomes" (with David Sherwyn), 42 Arizona State Law Journal 901-947 (2010).
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Nicole L. Walters and Martin T. Wells), 2 Journal of Legal Analysis 577 ( 2010).
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker," (with Theodore Eisenberg, and Martin T. Wells) 166 Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 5 (2010).
"Federal Criminal Appeals: An Empirical Perspective," 93 Marquette Law Review 825 (2009).
"Plaintiphobia in State Court? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 38 Journal of Legal Studies 121 (2009).
"Courting Trouble: Litigation, High-Stakes Testing, and Education Policy," 42 Indiana Law Review 327 (2009).
"Judicial Decision-Making, Social Science Evidence, and Equal Educational Opportunity: Uneasy Relations and Uncertain Futures," 31 Seattle University Law Review 863 (2008).

Articles
"Contract's Constitutive Core: Solving Problems by Making Deals," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-06 (2011).
"Reaching Equilibrium in Tobacco Litigation" (with Aaron Twerski), 62 South Carolina Law Review 67 (2010).
"Manufacturers’ Liability for Defective Product Designs: The Triumph of Risk-Utility," (with Aaron Twerski) 74 Brooklyn Law Review 1061 (2009).
"The Status of Trespassers on Land," 44 Wake Forest Law Review 1071 (2009).
"Sellers of Safe Products Should Not Be Required to Rescue Users From Risks Presented by Other More Dangerous Products." 37 Southwestern University Law Review 595 (2008).

Working Papers
"Contract Law in Context: The Case of Software Contracts," __ Wake Forest Law Review __ (forthcoming) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. No. 010-002 (Feb 18, 2010).
Articles
"Defending Disclosure in Software licensing," (with Maureen O'Rourke) 78 University of Chicago Law Review 95 (2011).
"Contract Law in Context: The Case of Software Contracts," 45 Wake Forest Law Review 669 (2010).
"Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: Some Highlights," (with Maureen A. O'Rourke) 84 Tulane Law Review 1519 (2010).
"Rethinking Consideration in the Electronic Age" (with Maureen O'Rourke), 61 Hastings Law Journal 337-411 (2009).
"Maybe Dick Speidel Was Right about Court Adjustment," 46 San Diego Law Review 595-607(2009).
"Warranties and Disclaimers in the Electronic Age,"  11 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2008). 

Articles
"Bubbles, Busts and Blame," 37 (1) Cornell Law Forum 14 (2011).
"Bretton Woods 1.0: An Essay in Constructive Retrieval," Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers Paper 82 (2011).
"Forward: Interpreting - and Learning From? - Yet Another 'Meltdown'," 61 Syracuse Law Review 411 (2010).  
"Promise against Peril: Of Power, Purpose, and Principle in International Law," 17 ILSA Journal of  International & Comparative Law 71 (2010).
“A Fixer-Upper for Finance” 87 Washington University Law Review 1213 (2010).
"Taking Distribution Seriously," (forthcoming) 59 Emory Law Journal __ (2010).
"Making Sense of the Health-Care Reform Debate," 53 Challenge 28 (2010).

Working Papers
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (With John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, and Valerie P. Hans) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN
Articles
"When Lightning Strikes Back: South Carolina's Return to the Unconstitutional, Standardless Capital Sentencing Regime of the Pre-Furman Era" (with John H. Blume, Emily Paavola, and Keir Weyble), 4 Charleston Law Review 479-535 (2010).
"An Empirical Look at Atkins v. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases" (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 76 Tennessee Law Review 627-639 (2009).
Back to a Future: Reversing Keith Simpson's Death Sentence and Making Peace with the Victim's Family Through Post-Conviction Investigation. (with John H. Blume) 77 UMKC Law Review 963-988 (2009).
"Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases," (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 18 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 689-733 (2009).
"Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, et al.), 84 Notre Dame Law Review 1195 (2009).
"Competent Capital Representation: the Necessity of Knowing What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation" (with John H. Blume and Scott Sundby) 36 Hofstra Law Review 1035 (2008)

Articles
"Measuring State Compliance with Right to Education Using Indicators: A Case Study of Colombia's Obligations Under the ICESCR," (forthcoming Human Rights Quarterly)
"Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights under International Treaties," 44 Stanford Journal of International Law 63 (2008).

Articles
"Who Is the 'Sovereign' in Sovereign Debt?: Reinterpreting a Rule-of-Law Framework from the Early Twentieth Century," 33 Yale Journal of International Law 63 (2008).

Articles
"Rethinking the Concept of Exclusion in Patent Law," 98 Georgetown Law Journal 1643 (2010).

Working Papers
"Rewiring Old Architecture: Why U.S. Courts Have Been So Slow and Uneven in Their Take-up of Digital Technology," Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers Paper 84 (2011).
"Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01 (2011).
"Finding and Citing the 'Unimportant' Decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-015 (April 25, 2008). Available at SSRN.  

Working Papers
"Forgetting Oblivion: The Demise of the Legislative Pardon," Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers. Paper 83. (2011)
Articles
“'Our Cities Institutions' and the Institution of the Common Law," 22 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 441 (2010).
"Summum and the Establishment Clause," 104 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 95 (2009).
"Commerce in Religion" 84 Notre Dame Law Review 887 (2009).
"Like a Nation State"  55 UCLA Law Review 1621  (2008).
"Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution," 94 Cornell Law Review 73 (2008).
“Religious Expression in the Balance: A Response to Murad Hussain’s Defending the Faithful," 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 186 (2008).

Articles
"United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Security and Reconstruction" 44 Akron Law Review 769-807 (2011).
"African Customary Law, Customs, and Women's Rights," 18 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 87-120 (2011).
"Free and Fair Elections, Violence and Conflict" (with Sara Lulo), 51 Harvard International Law Journal Online 155 (2010).
"The United Nations Responses to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls By Peacekeepers During Peacekeeping Missions," 27 Berkeley Journal of International Law 127 (2009).

Contributions to Books
"Attempt, Conspiracy, and Incitement to Commit Genocide" in The UN Genocide Convention (Oxford University Press: Paola Gaeta ed., 2009).
"Peace, Security, and Prosecutorial Discretion," in The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court (Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; C. Stahn and G. Sluiter eds. 2009).
"Towards a Unique Theory of International Criminal Sentencing," in International Criminal Procedure: Towards a Coherent Body of Law (London: CMP Publishing; G. Sluiter, Sergey Vasiliev eds., 2009).
Prosecutor v. Stakic: “The Co-Perpetrator Model of Joint Criminal Enterprise,” 14 Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals 739 (2008).
Articles
"Nash Equilibrium and International Law", 96 Cornell law Review 869 (2011).
"Joint Intentions to Commit International Crimes," 11 Chicago Journal of International Law 693 (2010). To be entitled "Joint Intentions" in Rethinking Criminal Law Theory (François Tanguay-Renaud & James Stribopoulos eds., forthcoming 2011).
"The Torture Lawyers: A Reply to Parry and Harel," 51 Harvard International Law Journal Online 96 (2010).
"The Torture Lawyers," 51 Harvard International Law Journal 193 (2010).
"Meta-Theory of International Criminal Procedure: Vindicating the Rule of Law," 14 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (2009).
"Group Think: the Law of Conspiracy and Collective Reason," 98 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 147 (2008).
"The Bounds of Necessity," 6 Journal of International Criminal Justice 289 (2008).

Books
An Introduction to Property Theory (with Gregory S. Alexander) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law, 2012).  
Articles
"The Illusory Right to Abandon," 109 Michigan Law Review 191 (2010).
"Properties of Community" (with Gregory S. Alexander), 10 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 127 (2009).
"Land Virtues," 94 Cornell Law Review 821 (2009).
"A Statement of Progressive Property," (with Laura S. Underkuffler and Gregory Alexander) 94 Cornell Law Review 743 (2009).

Articles
"Implicit Bias, Election '08, and the Myth of a Post-Racial America" (with Gregory S. Parks), 37 Florida State University Law Review 659 (2010).
"Why Heightened Pleading- Why Now?," 114 Penn State Law Review 1247-1256 (2010).
"The Hidden 'Judiciary': An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice," (with Chris Guthrie, and Andrew Wistrich) 58 Duke Law Journal 1477 (2009).
"Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado About Nothing?," (with Gregory Scott Parks) 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 210 (2009).
"Barack Obama, Implicit Bias, and the 2008 Election" (with Gregory S. Parks) 35(1) Cornell Law Forum 8 (2009)/
"Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?" (with Sheri Lynn Johnson, et al.), 84 Notre Dame Law Review 1195 (2009).
"Heuristics, Biases, and Philosophy," 43 Tulsa Law Review 865-883 (2008).
"Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases" (with C. Guthrie, & A. Wistrich), 93 Cornell Law Review 1 (2007); (discussed in the ABA Journal, June 2008).

Articles
"Pax Arabica? Provisional Sovereignty and Intervention in the Arab Uprising," (with Asli U. Bali) 42 California Western International Law Journal 321 (2011 - 2012). 
"Statesman or Scribe? Legal Independence and the Problem of Democratic Citizenship," 77 Fordham Law Review 1665 (2009).
"Obama and the New Age of Reform," 16 Constellations 271 (2009) Cornell Law Faculty Publications, Paper # 32 (2009).
Book Reviews
"Book Review: The Long Shadow of the Founding," 40 Reviews in American History No. 1 (2012) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-68 (2013).

Working Papers
"From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style", 64 Stanford Law Review (2012);  Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-30 (2011).
Contributions to Books
"Placeholders: Engaging the Hayekian Critique of Financial Regulation," in Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets chapter 5 (Annelise Riles, ed., forthcoming, 2010).
"Is the Law Hopeful?," in Hope in the Economy (H. Miyazaki and R. Swedberg eds., forthcoming, 2010).

"And Never the Twain Shall Meet? An Exchange on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropology and Economics in Analyzing the Commons" (with Ravi Kanbur), in The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Anthropologists and Economists, (Blackwell Press, Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray, eds. 2008). p266-79

Articles
"Collateral Expertise: Legal Knowledge in the Global Financial Markets," 51 Current Anthropology 795-818 (2010).
"International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach" (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings (2009).
"Reforming Knowledge? A Socio-Legal Critique of the Legal Education Reforms in Japan" (with Takashi Uchida), 1 Drexel Law Review 3 (2009).
Forward: in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 71(3) Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2008).
"The Anti-Network: Global Private Law, Legal Knowledge, and the Legitimacy of the State," 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 605 (2008).
"Cultural Conflicts," in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws 71(3) Law & Contemporary Problems 273 (2008).

Articles
"Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?" (with Kevin Clermont), 3 Harvard Law and Policy Review 103 (2009).

Contributions to Books
 "Law and Philosophy at Odds" (with Larry Alexander), in On Law and Philosophy in America, (Cambridge University Press, Francis J. Mootz, III, ed., 2009).
Articles
"Why In Re Omegas Group Was Right: An Essay on the Legal Status of Equitable Remedies," 92 Boston University Law Review 885 (2012).
" Interpreting Tort Law," 39 Florida State University Law Review 227 (2011).
"Legal Taxonomy," 15 Legal Theory 25-54 (2009).
"Mandatory Arbitration for Customers but not for Peers: A Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Non-Consumer Contracts" (with G. Miller, and E. Sherwin), 92 Judicature 118 (2008).
"The Jurisprudence of Pleading: Rights, Rules, and Conley v. Gibson," 52 Howard Law Journal 73 (2008).
"Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts," (with Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller) 41 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 871 (2008).
"Unjust Enrichment and Creditors," 27 The Review of Litigation 141 (2008).

Contributions to Books

"Democratic Governance, Distributive Justice and Development," in Distributive Justice and International Economic Law (Cambridge University Press; Chi Carmody, Frank Garcia, John Linarelli, eds. forthcoming, 2010)

Articles
"Convergences and Divergences in International Legal Norms on Migrant Labor," 32 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 405 (2011).
"Migrant Domestic Workers in Cairo: A Case Study of Informality in Legal and Economic Ordering," 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 987 (2010).

Articles
"Takings and the Problem of Value: Grappling with Truth in Land-Restriction Cases," 11 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 465 (2010).
"Judicial Takings: A Medley of Misconceptions Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection," 61 Syracuse Law Review 203 (2011).

Articles
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, and Nicole L. Walters), 2 Journal of Legal Analysis 2 (2010).
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker," (with T. Eisenberg, & M. Heise), 166 Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 5 (2010).

Articles
"Legal Ethics is about the Law, Not Morality or Justice: A Reply to Critics," 90  Texas Law Review 727 (2012). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-02
"Three Concepts of Roles," 48 San Diego Law Review 547 (2011) (memorial symposium in honor of Fred Zacharias).
"Explanation in legal Scholarship: The Inferential Structure of Doctrinal Analysis," 96 Cornell law Review 1035 (2011).

Working Papers
'Sandbagging: Default Rules and Acquisition Agreements," 36  Delaware Journal of Corporate Law No.(2011). Cornell legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-19 (2012).  
"Creditors and Debt Governance" in Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law (Edward Elgar Publishing; Claire Hill & Brett McDonnell, eds., 2011).
Articles
"The Goldilocks Approach: Financial Risk and Staged Regulation," 97 Cornell Law Review 1267 (2012). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 12-57 (2012).
"Destructive Coordination," 96 Cornell Law Review 323-364 (2011).
"Why Not a CEO Term Limit?," Boston University Law Review (forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 011-05 (Feb. 13, 2011).
"Reframing Financial Regulation," 90 Boston University Law Review 1 (2010).