Economic Analysis of Law: Preliminary Syllabus
Assignments should be read by the first class of each week. The text is D. Friedman, Law's Order. Both a draft in HTML and page images of the final version are webbed. The page images are there to support links to the virtual footnotes.


Week
Chapter
Topics



8/18

 Introduction, 1, 2

 Economic Analysis of Law, Efficiency

8/25

3,4

Externalities

9/3 (1 day)

5

Designing Legal Rules
9/8
 The Problem of Social Cost

9/15

6,7

Economics of Risk, Ex Post vs Ex Ante Enforcement

9/22

8, 9

Game Theory, Value of Life
9/29
 Review

10/1

 Midterm

10/6

 10
 Property
10/15 (1 day)
 11
 Intellectual Property
10/20
 12,13,  From China to Cyberspace Contract and Family Law

10/27

 14
 Tort

11/3

15

Crime

11/10

16

Antitrust
11/17
 17,18
Some Very Different Systems of Legal Rules
11/24
 19, Epilog, In class presentation
 Is the Common Law Efficient?
11/26
 Last Class
  Review
12/14
 Short paper—L&E arguments for one side of a real case—due.

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