Contract Publications:
Why Not? A Bi-Monthly Column: in Forbes (with Barry Nalebuff). A column of ideas to improve business, government and everyday life:
An Equity Kicker 113 (May 19, 2008).
Cupid and Colleges 87 (May 9, 2007).
For the Love of the Game 54 (March 12, 2007)
Environmental Atonement 87 (Dec. 25, 2006)
Skin in the Game 161 (Nov. 13, 2006)
The Ticket to Savings 176 (May 22, 2006)
Mortgage Your Retirement 150 (Nov. 14, 2005) (excel data)
Promises to Keep 78 (July 4, 2005)
Public Radio Commentary for Marketplace (with Barry Nalebuff):
Now, the customer's always managed (Oct. 8, 2007) (Audio)
A Way to Stop Pretexting (Sept. 11, 2006) (Real Audio).
Cellphone Sleuth (Aug. 20, 2004) (Real Audio).
Blackboxes for Cars (Sept. 16, 2003) (Real Audio).
Sarbanes/Oxley's First Birthday (July 30, 2003) (Real Audio).
Pay Per Mile Auto Insurance (Feb. 25, 2003) (Real Audio).
Spoiling Spam (Dec. 24, 2002) (Real Audio).
Virtual Strikes (Oct. 4, 2002) (Real Audio).
Disclosuring' hidden fees to consumers (Aug. 28, 2002) (Real Audio).
Studies in Contract Law (7th edition, Foundation Press, 2008) (with Richard E. Speidel) (formerly Murphy, Speidel and Ayres).
Lose Weight? Bet On It, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Jan. 27, 2008).
Tradable Patent Rights, 60 Stanford Law Review 863 (2007) (with Gideon Parchomovsky).
Privatizing Employment Protection, 49 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 587 (2007) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown).
New Rules for Promissory Fraud, 48 Arizona Law Review 957 (2006) (with Gregory Klass).
The Hollow Promise: Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination Policies, 24 Association of Corporate Counsel Docket 48 (Oct. 2006) (with Richard F. Ober, Jr.).
Promises, not policies, Yale Alumni Magazine 32 (Sept./Oct. 2006).
Written Statement, Disparity Studies as Evidence of Discrimination in Federal Contracting, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (May 2006).
Ya-HUH: There Are and Should Be Penalty Defaults, Florida State University Law Review, 33 Floridat State University Law Review 589 (2006).
Promissory Fraud, 78 New York State Bar Association Journal 26 (May 2006) (with Gregory Klass).
Instantaneous Liability Rule Auctions: The Continuous Extention of Higher-Order Liability Rules, (working paper 2004) (with Sergey I. Knysh and Paul M. Goldbart)
Menus Matter, 73 University of Chicago Law Review 3 (2006).
First Amendment Bargains,18 Yale J. L. & Humanities 178 (2006).
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing ENDA with a Certification Mark, 104 Michigan Law Review 1639 (2006) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown) (excel GAO analysis), featured in New York Times Sunday Magazine The Year in Ideas (Dec. 11, 2005).
Promissory Fraud Without Breach, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 507 (2004) (with Gregory Klass).
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).
The Wrong Ticket to Ride, New York Times A29 (March 24, 2004) (with Barry Nalebuff).
In Praise of Honest Pricing, 45 MIT Sloan Management Review 24 (Fall 2003)(with Barry Nalebuff).
Want to Call Me? Pay Me!, Wall Street Journal A24 (Oct. 8, 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).
Dialing for Dollars, New York Times A29 (Sept. 30, 2003).
Studies in Contract Law (6th edition, Foundation Press, 2003) (with Edward J. Murphy & Richard E. Speidel). Buy a copy.
Valuing Modern Contract Scholarship, 112 Yale Law Journal 881 (2003).
Correlated Values in the Theory of Property and Liability Rules, 32 Journal of Legal Studies 121 (2003) (with Paul Goldbart).
Marketing Privacy: A Solution for the Blight of Telemarketing (and Spam and Junk Mail), 20 Yale Journal on Regulation 77 (2003) (with Matthew Funk). (pdf version)
Internalizing Outsider Trading, 101 Michigan Law Review 313 (2002) (with Stephen Choi).
Optimal Delegation and Decoupling in the Design of Liability Rules, 100 Michigan Law Review 1 (2001) (with Paul Goldbart).
Connecticut's Speeder-Friendly Crackdown, New York Times, p. A19, col. 2 (August 31, 2001) (with Barry Nalebuff).Why Telemarketers Should Pay Us, Hartford Courant, p. A15, col. 3 (May 10, 2001) (with Matthew Funk).
Monetize Labor Practices, 26 Boston Review 18 (February-March 2001).
Empire or Residue: Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon, in Legal Canons 47 (J.M. Balkin and S. Levinson, eds.) (2000).
Threatening Inefficient Performance, 44 European Economic Review 818 (2000) (with Kristin Madison).Threatening Inefficient Performance of Injunctions and Contracts, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 45 (1999) (with Kristin Madison).
The Employment Contract, 8 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 71 (1999) (with Stewart Schwab).Majoritarian v. Minoritarian Defaults, 51 Stanford Law Review 1591 (1999) (with Robert Gertner).
1998 Ladd Lecture: Empire or Residue: Competing Visions of the Contractual Canon, 26 Florida State Law Review 897 (1999).
Discrediting the Free Market, 66 University of Chicago Law Review 273 (1999).
1998 Monsanto Lecture in Tort Reform and Jurisprudence: Protecting Property With Puts, 32 Valparaiso University Law Review 793 (1998).
Default Rules for Incomplete Contracts, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Vol. A-D 585 (Peter Newman, ed., 1998).
Three Proposals To Harness Private Information in Contract, 21 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 135 (1997).
The Twin Faces of Judicial Corruption: Extortion and Bribery, 74 Denver University Law Review 1231 (1997).
Common Knowledge As A Barrier to Negotiation, 44 UCLA Law Review 1631 (1997) (with Barry Nalebuff).
Studies in Contract Law (5th edition, Foundation Press, 1997) (with Edward J. Murphy & Richard E. Speidel). Buy a copy.
Car Buying, Made Simpler, New York Times F12 (April 13, 1997) (with Peter Schuck).
Legal Entitlements as Auctions: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Beyond, 106 Yale Law Journal 703 (1997) (with Jack Balkin).
Distinguishing Between Consensual and Nonconsensual Advantages of Liability Rules, 105 Yale Law Journal 235 (1995) (with Eric Talley).
Review, The Limits of Freedom of Contract, by Michael J. Trebilcock, 33 Journal of Economic Literature 865 (1995).
Solomonic Bargaining: Dividing A Legal Entitlement To Facilitate Coasean Trade, 104 Yale Law Journal 1027 (1995) (with Eric Talley).
Economic Rationales For Mediation, 80 Virginia Law Review 323 (1994) (with Jennifer Brown).
Preliminary Thoughts on Optimal Tailoring of Contractual Rules, 3 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 1 (1993).
Mutual and Unilateral Mistake in Contract Law, 22 Journal of Legal Studies 309 (1993) (with Eric Rasmusen).
Making a Difference: The Contractual Contributions of Easterbrook and Fischel, 59 University of Chicago Law Review 1391 (1992), reprinted in 35 Corporate Practice Commentator 65 (1993).
Strategic Contractual Inefficiency and the Optimal Choice of Legal Rules, 101 Yale Law Journal 729 (1992) (with Rob Gertner).
The Possibility of Inefficient Corporate Contracts, 60 Cincinnati Law Review 387 (1991).
"I'll Sell It To You at Cost:" Legal Methods to Promote Retail Markup Disclosure, 84 Northwestern Law Review 1047 (1990) (with F. Clayton Miller).
Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, 99 Yale Law Journal 87 (1989) (with Robert Gertner).
