One of the great ironies about information privacy law is that the primary regulation of
privacy in the United States has barely been studied in a scholarly way. Since the late …

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the
work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is …

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new
book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and …

Plea-bargaining literature predicts that parties strike plea bargains in the shadow of
expected trial outcomes. In other words, parties forecast the expected sentence after trial …

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates.
But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find …

135 USC?? 100-376 (2000). 2See, eg, id.? 103 (b)(2000)(special nonobviousness provision
for biotechnology).'Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 US 303, 309 (1980)(citing S. Rep. No. 82 …

More than thirty years ago, W. David Slawson estimated that 99 percent of all contracts did
not resemble the Platonic ideal of a list of jointly negotiated terms but were instead …

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system
currently stands, diverse industries from pharmaceuticals to software to semiconductors are …

" Our business is prophecy, and if prophecy were certain, there would not be much credit in
prophesying." 1 The 2002 Term of the Supreme Court underscored two essential, and fairly …