FE486A Law and Economics Readings

You will be required to complete 10 of the 11.

1. Chapter 3: Obama’s Recess Appointments: Supreme Court to hear Landmark Case: Christian Science Monitor 12 Jan 2014
   Writing assignment #1 due 14 Jan.
2. Chapter 4: “Tragedy of the Commons” Thomas Hardin (1968) Science, vol 162, 1243 – 1248 and  "Holdouts, Externalities, and the Single Owner: One More Salute to Ronald Coase*" by Richard Epstein (1993) Journal of Law and Economics, vol 36, 553 – 586.
   Writing assignment #2 due 21 Jan.
3. Chapter 5: The Kelo Case, Public Use, and Eminent Domain – Posner Comment 6/26/2005 and On Eminent Domain – Becker 6/27/2005
   Writing assignment #3 due 26 Jan.
4. Chapter 5 “Ten Famous Intellectual Property Disputes” by Megan Gambino, smithsonian.com 21 June 2011
   Writing assignment #4 due 28 Jan.
5. Chapter 6: Is Pinto a Criminal? By Richard Epstein (1980) Regulation March/April 15 – 21.
   Writing assignment #5 due 20 Feb.
6. Chapter 6: The Mc Donald’s coffee lawsuit by Kevin Cain Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law
   Writing assignment #6 due 23 Feb.
7. Chapter 6: NASCAR Crash Kills Fans and Camp Randall Stadium Stampede 20 years later
   Writing assignment #7 due 25 Feb.
8. Chapter 9  Hawkins v. McGee, 84 N.H. 114 (1929)  .
   Writing assignment #8 due 30 March.
9. Chapter 12  Legalize it – The Economic Argument . by Ranjit Dighe, Huffington Post 1/30/2014
   Writing assignment #9 due 15 April.
10. Chapter 12  Why Crime fell in the 1990’s: Four Factors that explain the decline and six that do not. By Steven D. Levitt (2004) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(1), 163 – 190.
    Writing assignment #10 due 20 April