Robert Cooter

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Robert Cooter is affiliated with the following schools: Australian National University, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cologne, Swarthmore College, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Hamburg, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Yale University, Tel Aviv University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert D. Cooter is the Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Cooter works in the field of law and economics. He is co-editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, and was among those convened by George Mason University Law School dean, Henry Manne, in January, 1990, to discuss organizing a professional association, prior to formation of the American Law and Economics Association; Cooter was subsequently elected as a founding board member, then served as its president for 1994. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Law and Economics (1988) (763)
Economic Analysis of Legal Disputes and Their Resolution (1989) (685)
Expressive Law And Economics (1998) (408)
The Strategic Constitution (2000) (275)
Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics (1984) (244)
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: A Testable Model of Strategic Behavior (1982) (243)
The Cost of Coase (1982) (243)
Prices and Sanctions (1984) (222)
Can Litigation Improve the Law without the Help of Judges? (1980) (185)
Decentralized Law for a Complex Economy: The Structural Approach to Adjudicating the New Law Merchant (1996) (178)
Unity in Tort, Contract and Property: The Model of Precaution (1985) (164)
The Coase Theorem (1989) (153)
Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens: An Economic Analysis of Internalized Norms (2000) (144)
Comparative judicial discretion: An empirical test of economic models (1995) (138)
Structural adjudication and the new law merchant: A model of decentralized law (1994) (136)
Liability Externalities and Mandatory Choices: Should Doctors Pay Less? (2006) (110)
Three Effects of Social Norms on Law: Expression, Deterrence, and Internalization (2000) (100)
The Fiduciary Relationship: Its Economic Character and Legal Consequences (1991) (100)
An Economic Case for Comparative Negligence (1986) (98)
An Economic Model of Legal Discovery (1994) (94)
The objectives of private and public judges (1983) (89)
Liability rules, limited information, and the role of precedent (1979) (88)
Economic Analysis of Punitive Damages (1982) (85)
Economic Theories of Legal Liability (1991) (85)
Decreasing‐Liability Contracts (2003) (84)
Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations (2012) (82)
Personal versus Impersonal Trade: The Size of Trading Groups and Contract Law (1984) (80)
Total Liability for Excessive Harm (2004) (76)
Expressive Law: Framing or Equilibrium Selection? (2003) (76)
Burn wound zygomycosis caused by Apophysomyces elegans (1990) (70)
The Normative Failure Theory of Law (1996) (70)
Deterrence and Incapacitation (1981) (60)
The Rule of State Law Versus the Rule-of-Law State: Economic Analysis of the Legal Foundations of Development (1997) (55)
Punitive Damages for Deterrence: When and How Much? (1989) (54)
Damages for Breach of Contract (1985) (53)
The logic of power in the emerging European constitution: Game theory and the division of powers (1994) (51)
Collective Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section 8 (2010) (48)
A Theory of Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule (2009) (47)
Inventing Market Property: The Land Courts of Papua New Guinea (1991) (46)
Should Courts Deduct Nonlegal Sanctions from Damages? (2000) (42)
Towards a Market in Unmatured Tort Claims (1989) (40)
Lapses of Attention in Medical Malpractice and Road Accidents (2014) (40)
Liability for Lapses: First or Second Order Negligence? (2008) (40)
Optimal Income Taxation for Transfer Payments Under Different Social Welfare Criteria (1974) (39)
Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms (1997) (39)
Law and Unified Social Theory (1995) (38)
Torts as the Union of Liberty and Efficiency: An Essay on Causation (1987) (37)
The theory of market modernization of law (1996) (36)
Fairness, Character, and Efficiency in Firms (2001) (33)
The Misperception of Norms: The Psychology of Bias and the Economics of Equilibrium (2008) (33)
Models of Morality in Law and Economics: Self-Control and Self-Improvement for the "Bad Man" of Holmes (1998) (31)
Lapses, conflict, and akrasia in torts and crimes: Towards an economic theory of the will (1991) (30)
Leximetrics: Why the Same Laws are Longer in Some Countries than Others (2003) (29)
Law and the Imperialism of Economics: An Introduction to the Economic Analysis of Law and a Review of the Major Books (1981) (28)
Punitive Damages, Social Norms, and Economic Analysis (1997) (26)
Optimal Tax Schedules and Rates: Mirrlees and Ramsey (1978) (26)
Decentralized Law for a Complex Economy (1993) (24)
The Virtuous Circle of Distrust: A Mechanism to Deter Bribes and Other Cooperative Crimes (2000) (24)
Against Legal Centrism (1993) (22)
Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens? An Economic Analysis of Internalizing Legal Values (2000) (22)
A Regulated Market in Unmatured Tort Claims: Tort Reform by Contract (1988) (22)
Anti‐insurance (2002) (22)
A Theory of Loss Allocation for Consumer Payments (1987) (21)
Charity, Publicity, and the Donation Registry (2005) (21)
Constitutional law and economics of the European Union (1995) (20)
Who Gets on Top in Democracy? Elections as Filters (2003) (20)
How the law circumvents Starrett's nonconvexity (1980) (19)
The Intrinsic Value of Obeying a Law: Economic Analysis of the Internal Viewpoint (2006) (19)
Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform (2011) (19)
Economic Analysis in Civil Law Countries: Past, Present, Future (1991) (19)
Indian Common Law:The Role of Custom in American Indian Tribal Courts(Part I of II) (1998) (19)
Truth-Bonding and Other Truth-Revealing Mechanisms for Courts (2001) (18)
Market Affirmative Action (1994) (18)
Externalities and Other Parasites (2000) (18)
Punitive Damages for Deterence: When and How Much (1988) (17)
The Falcon’s Gyre: Legal Foundations of Economic Innovation and Growth (2013) (17)
Bargaining with the State (2008) (17)
Kin Groups and the Common Law Process (1991) (16)
Law and Economics, 6th edition (2016) (16)
Best Right Laws: Value Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law (1989) (16)
The Optimal Number of Governments for Economic Development (1999) (15)
Risk, Harm, Interests and Rights (2007) (15)
Issues in Customary Land Law (1989) (15)
Why Litigants Disagree: A Comment on George Priest's "Measuring Legal Change" (1987) (14)
Commodifying Liability (2020) (14)
Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict (2000) (14)
The Rule of State Law and the Rule-of-Law State: Economic Analysis of the Legal Founations of Development (2016) (13)
What is the Public Interest (1975) (13)
Law and the Poverty of Nations (2009) (12)
Reforming the New Discovery Rules (1995) (11)
The history of the discovery of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. (2002) (11)
American Indian Law Codes: Pragmatic Law and Tribal Identity (2008) (10)
Trial Courts: An Economic Perspective (1990) (10)
Hand Rule Damages for Incompensable Losses (2003) (10)
Political Economy of a Public Corporation: Pricing Objectives of BART (1980) (9)
Reply to I. M. D. Little's Comment [Were the Ordinalists Wrong about Welfare Economics?] (1985) (8)
An Economic Model of the Fiduciary's Duty of Loyalty (1990) (8)
The payment system : cases, materials, and issues (1994) (7)
A Closed Model of Careers in a Simple Hierarchy (1979) (7)
Liberty, Efficiency, and Law (1987) (7)
Maturing into Normal Science: The Effect of Empirical Legal Studies on Law and Economics (2011) (7)
Getting Incentives Right: Improving Torts, Contracts, and Restitution (2014) (7)
Economic, Moral Philosophy, and the Positive Analysis of Tort Law (2001) (7)
Innovation, Information, and the Poverty of Nations: (2005) (7)
Not the Power to Destroy: An Effects Theory of the Tax Power (2012) (7)
The Confluence of Justice and Efficiency in the Economic Analysis of Law (2003) (7)
Organization as Property: Economic Analysis of Property Law Applied to Privatization (1992) (6)
Passing on the Monopoly Overcharge: A Further Comment on Economic Theory (1981) (6)
Disgorgement Damages for Accidents (2015) (6)
Liability Rules and Risk Sharing in Environmental and Resource Policy: Discussion (1986) (6)
Mongolia: Avoiding Tragedy in the World's Largest Commons (1999) (5)
2013 State of Entrepreneurship Address: 'Financing Entrepreneurial Growth' (2013) (5)
Division of Powers In the European Constitution (1997) (5)
Foundations of Law and Economics (2009) (5)
Rawls's Lexical Orderings Are Good Economics (1989) (5)
Justice at the confluence of law and economics (1987) (5)
Laws and prices: How economics contributed to Law by misunderstanding morality (1994) (4)
The minimax constitution as democracy (1992) (4)
Liability Rights as Contingent Claims (1998) (4)
Administrative Law and Economics (1996) (4)
Introduction to Law and Economics (2007) (4)
Defective Warnings, Remote Causes, and Bankruptcy: Comment on Schwartz (1985) (4)
Damages for Incompensable Harms (2012) (4)
Sharing and Anti-Sharing in Teams (2006) (4)
Economic dimensions in international law: Market modernization of law: Economic development through decentralized law (1998) (4)
An Escape from Poverty: Developing Productive Organizations (2005) (3)
Justice and Mathematics: Two Simple Ideas (1983) (3)
Constitutional Consequentialism: Bargain Democracy versus Median Democracy (2002) (3)
Chaos, Direct Democracy, and the Single Subject Rule (2006) (3)
Treating Yourself Instrumentally: Internalization, Rationality and Law (2003) (3)
A Disruption Mechanism for Bribes (2014) (3)
The Cultural Justification of Unearned Income: An Economic Model of Merit Goods Based on Aristolelian Ideas of Akrasia and Distributive Justice (2006) (3)
Market Modernization and Median Democracy: An Essay on Law and Economic Development (2002) (2)
The Secret of Growth Is Financing Secrets: Corporate Law and Growth Economics (2011) (2)
Information, Innovation, and the Poverty of Nations (2006) (2)
Recent Developments in Law and Economics (2009) (2)
Constitutional Law and Economics (2019) (2)
The Law and Economics of Anthropology: A Review (2003) (2)
Group report : how do heuristics mediate the impact of law on behavior? (2006) (2)
Torts and Restitution: Legal Divergence and Economic Convergence (2018) (2)
Comparative Judicial Daring: Constitutional Powers and Dominant Parties (1998) (2)
The Donation Registry (2003) (2)
Law and Growth Economics: A Framework for Research (2011) (2)
Doing What You Say: Contracts and Economics Development (2007) (2)
Orders and Incentives as Regulatory Methods: The Expedited Funds in Availability Act of 1987 (1987) (1)
The New Economic Freedom (2015) (1)
Clearings and Thickets (2011) (1)
A new expenditure function (1979) (1)
Bargaining with the State: Offsets and Mitigation in Developing Land (2008) (1)
Progress in the Useful Arts: Foundations of Patent Law in Growth Economics (2020) (1)
Organizational Property and Privatization (1993) (1)
Chapter 1: The Importance of Law in Promoting Innovation and Growth (2011) (1)
Justice and economic decision making: A model of akrasia (1990) (1)
Comparative Constitutional Design: Collective-Action Federalism (2012) (1)
Federalism with Two Languages (2003) (1)
and Other Truth-Revealing Mechanisms for Courts (2001) (1)
and Other Truth-Revealing Mechanisms for Courts (2001) (1)
Freedom, Creativity, and Intellectual Property (2013) (1)
THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF ANTHROPOLOGY (1999) (1)
Merit Goods: Some Thoughts on the Unthinkable (1990) (1)
Legal Institutions and Economic Development (2009) (1)
Getting Incentives Right-Responding to Critics (2015) (1)
Community versus Market Values of Life (2016) (1)
Book Review: Against Legal Centrism - Order Without Law (1993) (1)
Optimal Number of Governments (2000) (1)
Chapter 11. Termites in the Foundation–Corruption (2011) (1)
Anti-Insurance - eScholarship (2002) (1)
Conference on the constitutional law and economics of the European Union Saarbrucken, Germany September 1995 (1996) (1)
In Defense of the Impossibility Defense (2016) (1)
Doing What You Say (2008) (1)
Legal Institutions and Economic Development: An Introduction (2009) (0)
Workshop rescheduled to Spring 2012 (2011) (0)
Political Economy of a Public Corporation (2017) (0)
Innovation, Information, and the Poverty of Nations - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Review of R. Jutte, M. Eklof and M. Nelson (eds), Historical aspects of unconventional medicine (Sheffield: EAHMH, 2001) (2003) (0)
Publishers' and editors' announcement (1990) (0)
The Way of Thinking in Law and Economics: Legal Studies as a Policy Science (1997) (0)
UC system: layoffs, not pay cuts (2009) (0)
Program in Law and Economics , Working Paper Series Title Sharing and Anti-Sharing in Teams Permalink (2006) (0)
Median v. Bargain Democracy (2002) (0)
1987 Justice at the Confluence of Law and Economics (2017) (0)
Comparative Judicial Daring: Constitutional Powers and Political Culture (1997) (0)
1-1-2002 Constitutional Consequentialism : Bargain Democracy versus Median Democracy (2018) (0)
Chapter 2: Clearings and Thickets: Intellectual Property Law and Growth Economics (2013) (0)
Theories Meet Facts.new chapter for Law & Pvrty Nations (2007) (0)
Responding to Critics (2016) (0)
Chapter 13. Academic Scribblers and Defunct Economists (2011) (0)
Giving Credit to Credit (2013) (0)
Maturing into Normal Science: Empirical Legal Studies' Effect on Law & Economics (2010) (0)
1-1-2012 Not the Power to Destroy : An Effects to Theory of the Tax Power (2017) (0)
1-12000 Fairness , Character , and Efficiency in Firms (2017) (0)
Chapter 2. The Economic Future of the World (2011) (0)
It’s About The Economy (2013) (0)
7 2-1-1994 Market Affirmative Action (2019) (0)
J. Schleichkorn, W. Little; S. Trombley, Treves; C. Lawrence, Surgery; S. Lederer, Human Experimentation; J. Riley, Sick not Dead; M.R. Smallman-Raynor and A.D. Cliff, War Epidemics (2005) (0)
The Community Value of a Life (2014) (0)
From the SelectedWorks of Robert Cooter June , 1984 Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics ? (2018) (0)
Anti-Sharing as a Theory of Partnerships and Firms (2006) (0)
Class Discussion: Liability for Incompensable Harms. Presenter: Cooter / David DePianto (2011) (0)
Charity, Publicity, and the Donation Registry Forthcoming in the Economists’ Voice (2006) (0)
Table of Books and Articles (2014) (0)
1-1-1994 An Economic Model of Legal Discovery (2018) (0)
Law and Economics Workshop, Law 216 Law, Information, and the Poverty of Nations (2005) (0)
Program in Law and Economics , Working Paper Series Title Anti-Insurance Permalink (2001) (0)
Lecture and Discussion (2015) (0)
Working Papers in Public Law Title Expressive Law : Framing or Equilibrium Selection ? (2003) (0)
Accidents and Tort Law (2007) (0)
The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2007) (0)
—Drying up tax havens— A mechanism to unilaterally tax maritime emissions while satisfying extraterritoriality, tax competition and political constraints* (2015) (0)
Expressive Law and Economics - eScholarship (1998) (0)
Adapt or Optimize? The Psychology and Economics of Rules of Evidence (2005) (0)
with Two Languages” 1 A Lecture by (2003) (0)
Readings in the economics of contract law: Unity in tort, contract, and property: the model of precaution (1982) (0)
An economic case for tehe comparative negligence (1998) (0)
CHAPTER 14. Civil Rights (2000) (0)
Chapter 7 Doing What You Say–Contracts (2011) (0)
9-1-1987 Liberty , Efficiency , and Law (2017) (0)
Review : Barriers to Conflict Resolution (2017) (0)
Growth-Oriented Legal Reforms (2012) (0)
Introduction [The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark] (2014) (0)
The Measure of Law and Economics (2014) (0)
1-1-2005 An Escape from Poverty : Developing Productive Organizations (2018) (0)
Void for Vagueness: Introduction to a Symposium (1994) (0)
1 Expressive Law : Framing or Equilibrium Selection ? (2001) (0)
Good Good Citizens? An Economic Analysis of Internalizing Legal Values (2000) (0)
Thicker Selves in Law and Economics: Toward a Unified Social Thoery (1998) (0)
Hand Rule Damages for Incompensable Losses by Robert Cooter (2003) (0)
Chapter 3. The Double Trust Dilemma of Development (2011) (0)
Chapter 4. Make or Take (2011) (0)
III. Restitution and Positive Externalities (2014) (0)
California's Credit Card Industry (1993) (0)
Ganges Plain and Himalaya Mountains (2014) (0)
"Can Lawyers Say Anything about Economic Growth?" Comment on Frank Cross's Law and Economic Growth (2001) (0)
Workshop on Law and Economic Development, Hamburg, Germany, January 2004 (2005) (0)
Chapter 10. Hold or Fold–Financial Distress (2011) (0)
Jagged Edges (2020) (0)
Can Lawyers Say Anything About Economic Growth (2002) (0)
Philosophy of Law and Economics (2015) (0)
The People and the Strangers: Narratives and a Theory of American Indian Life (2003) (0)
Chapter 15. Legalize Freedom–Conclusion (2011) (0)
Accidents and Tort Law.new chapter for Law & Pvrty Nations (2007) (0)
Foundations of Law and Economics: An Introduction (2009) (0)
Academic scribblers and defunct economists (2010) (0)
1-1-1990 Trial Courts : An Economic Perspective (2018) (0)
Reply to Hasen and Matsusaka (2010) (0)
Creativity, Economic Freedom and Human Rights (2019) (0)
Chapter 9. Financing Secrets–Corporations (2011) (0)
Comment on Robert Frank's 'A Theory of Moral Sentiments' (1991) (0)
Chapter 14. How the Many Overcome the Few (2011) (0)
Program in Law and Economics , Working Paper Series Title The Virtuous Circle of Distrust : A Mechanism to Deter Bribes and Other Cooperative Crimes Permalink (2001) (0)
Recent Developments in Law and Economics: An Introduction (2009) (0)
Back Matter (1988) (0)
About this Research Review (2009) (0)
1-1-1995 Law and Unified Social Theory (2018) (0)
1991 Kin Groups and the Common Law Process (2018) (0)
Chapter 6 . Separation and Fertility in Intellectual Property Law (2014) (0)
Chapter 12. Poverty Is Dangerous–Accidents and Liability (2011) (0)
Liability for Excessive Harm (2005) (0)
1-1-1989 Towards a Market in Unmatured Tort Claims (2018) (0)
Cooter.DePiantoCommunity VOL.16.pdf (2016) (0)
Innovation, Information, and the Poverty of Nations: The 2005 Ladd Lecture at the Florida State University School of Law (2005) (0)
Law, Information, and the Poverty of Nations (2005) (0)
A Structural Approach to Decentralizing Law: A Theory of Games and Norms (1996) (0)
II. Contracts and Victims’ Incentives (2014) (0)
I. Torts and Misalignments (2014) (0)
Financing Entrepreneurial Growth (2013) (0)
General Welfare, Interstate Commerce, and Economic Analysis (2009) (0)
Law From the SelectedWorks of Robert Cooter April , 2000 Fairness , Character , and Efficiency in Firms (2017) (0)
Taking Consequences Seriously : Introduction (2000) (0)
Theories Meet Facts (2007) (0)
Charity and Information: Correcting the Failure of a Disjunctive Social Norm (2010) (0)
Chapter 1. It’s about the Economy (2011) (0)
Joseph Dumit.Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. (Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices, 14.) xii + 262 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2012. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). (2013) (0)
Chapter 5. The Property Principle for Innovation (2011) (0)
Division of Powers in the European Union Constitution (1998) (0)
M OF M ORALITY IN L AW AND E CONOMICS : S ELF - CONTROL AND S ELF IMPROVEMENT FOR THE AD M AN " OF H OLMES (1998) (0)
Chapter 6 Keeping What You Make–Property Law (2011) (0)
The development of management strategies for maize streak virus disease. Final Technical Report. (1998) (0)
Chapter 8. Giving Credit to Credit–Finance and Banking (2011) (0)
Progress in the Useful Arts : Foundation s of Intellectual Property Law in Growth Theory (2015) (0)
The Logic of Power in the Emerging Constitution: A Satisficing Model (1994) (0)
THE PUZZLE OF "EX ANTE EFFICIENCY': DOES RATIONAL APPROVABILITY HAVE MORAL WEIGHT? (2017) (0)
Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Legalize Freedom (2011) (0)
Normative Failures Theory of Law (1998) (0)
Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series Should Courts Deduct Non-Legal Sanctions from Damages? (2004) (0)
1-1-1991 Inventing Market Property : The Land Courts of Papua New Guinea (2018) (0)
Public Law and Economics (2022) (0)
Law and economics / Robert Cooter (2003) (0)
Comment on Article by Professor Jones (1997) (0)
1-1-1993 Decentralized Law for a Complex Economy (2018) (0)
The Two Enterprises of Law and Economics : An Introduction to Its History and Philosophy (2015) (0)
1-1-1982 Economic Analysis of Punitive Damages (2018) (0)
Gerken’s Federalism 3.0: Better or Worse Than It Sounds? (2017) (0)
Book Review: Barriers to Conflict Resolution (1996) (0)
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Berkeley Law From the SelectedWorks of Robert Cooter January , 1988 Expressive Law and Economics (2017) (0)

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