Books
Studies in Contract Law (7th edition, Foundation Press, 2008) (with Richard E. Speidel) (formerly Murphy, Speidel and Ayres).
Super
Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart (Bantam
2007). Buy
a copy
YouTube Super Cruncher Interview
Excerpt: How Computers Routed the Experts, Financial Times (August 31, 2007).
YLS coverage of Spring 2005 Trifecta
Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights (Princeton University Press 2005) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown), featured in New York Times Sunday Magazine The Year in Ideas (Dec. 11, 2005). Buy a copy.
License the Fair Employment Mark (and promise not to discriminate)
Sign the Vacation Pledge (and support equal marriage rights)
Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent (Yale University Press 2005) (with Gregory Klass).
Winner of the 2006 Scribes Book Award "for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year."
Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (University of Chicago Press, 2005). (STATA dataset) (STATA do file).
Why
Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
(Harvard Business School Press 2003) (with Barry
Nalebuff). Buy
a copy.
Read the New York Times review: "Daredevil Ideas from the 'Anti-Dilberts'"
Read my high school's coverage of a Why Not talk: Finding Solutions in Search of Problems
Book Excerpt: Ideas Waiting to Happen, Forbes 127 (Oct. 27 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).
Book Excerpt: A Role on the Board for the 'Loyal Opposition,' Directors & Boards 32 (Fall 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).
Book Excerpt: Problem Solving: What Would Croesus Do?, Darwin (Nov, 2003).
"Is Legal Creativity Possible," Olin Lecture, University of Michigan Law School (Sept. 11, 2003) (Video clip)
Bloomberg TV Interview (Oct. 25, 2003) (Video clip)
NPR Weekend Edition Interview (Nov. 1, 2003) (Audio clip)
Post Your Own "Why Not" Idea to our webboard for possible inclusion in our next column or see a list of other "Why Not" ideas at Forbes. Read a law school article about the Why Not? project.
Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (with Bruce Ackerman) (Yale University Press 2002). Buy a copy. The New Paradigm Revisited, 91 California Law Review 743 (2003) (with Bruce Ackerman) (response to The Brennan Center Jorde Symposium Issue on Bruce Ackerman & Ian Ayres, Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance Reform, 91 California Law Review 641 (2003)). Why a New Paradigm?, 37 University of Richmond Law Review 1147 (2003) (with Bruce Ackerman) (response to book review symposium on Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres's Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance Reform, 37 University of Richmond Law Review 935 (2003)).
Join CitizenSovereignty.org and help support meaningful campaign finance reform.
Pervasive Prejudice?: Non-Traditional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination (University of Chicago Press 2001). Buy a copy. Is Discrimination Elusive?, 55 Stanford Law Review 2419 (2003) (response to book review symposium on Ian Ayres, Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race And Gender Discrimination (2002) and Crossroads, Directions, And a New Critical Race Theory (2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome Culp & Angela P. Harris, eds.)).
Studies
in Contract Law (6th edition, Foundation Press, 2003) (with
Edward J. Murphy & Richard E. Speidel). Buy
a copy.
Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate (Oxford
University Press 1992) (with John Braithwaite). Buy
a copy.