Happy Election Night

Here is a column from Forbes that summarizes my empiricism on taxi cab tipping. Passengers discriminate against black drivers (tipping 1/3 less than white drivers) and rational drivers would predict that black passengers would tip them about half as much as white passengers:

http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/532/yls_article.htm

And here is a law review article that would help in teaching promissory fraud. Courts have frequently said that proving that a promisor breached her promise is not sufficient to establish promissory fraud liability, but this article argues that proving a breach of contract is in some circumstances not even necessary.

Promissory Fraud Without Breach, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 507 (2004) (with Gregory Klass). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=491302

And a couple of religious blogs for this election night. What do Bush and Belshazzar have in common?

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004/11/belshazzar-and-bush.html

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2004/11/belshazzar-and-bush-part-ii.html

Sincerely,

Ian Ayres

William K. Townsend Professor

Yale Law School

PO Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520

203.432.7101 (o), 203.432.4769 (fax), 203.624.5654 (h)

ian.ayres@yale.edu