Based on a qualitative survey among 203 US workers active on the microwork platform
Amazon Mechanical Turk, we analyze potential biases embedded in the institutional setting …

Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the 20th century arose out of
competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the …

Over the last forty years, neoclassical economics has become embedded in the normative
analysis of two broad areas of law:(1) how the law distributes entitlements amongst various …

Whenever a rule is contractible, the law must establish separate rules governing how private
parties can contract around the default legal treatment. To date, contract theorists have not …

The concept of the author is deemed to be central to copyright law. An important strand of
copyright scholarship explores how the development of modern copyright law was …

The past year has seen the surprising ascent of French economist Thomas Piketty to" rock
star" status. 1 The reading public's appetite for his economic treatise seems motivated by a …

Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional
independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their" property," or at …

This Article uses private law as a lens and a guide to excavate an unfamiliar story about
labor and racial violence in the post-slavery south. It is the story of farmers like Colonel …

Controversies over identity claims have commanded the attention of courts and the public in
recent years. At oral argument in a 2013 Supreme Court case involving the validity of …

* Professor of Law, University of Southern California. I gratefully acknowledge financial and
institutional support of the schools where I taught when I wrote this: Duke Law School and …