Until SSRN discontinued institutional research paper series as a product offering in June 2026, the The University of Michigan Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series journal contained abstracts and papers focused on the Public Law & Legal Theory area of study. Michigan Law faculty papers were sent in eDistributions to subscribers.
This series preserves the metadata for papers which were included in the series from 2003-2026, with links out to the SSRN paper landing pages. Papers remain available through individual author pages for current and former faculty.
Submissions from 2023
Reconsidering Ross: The Interplay of AEDPA, Criminal Appeals, and The Right to Counsel, Kimberly Thomas
Interpreting the Administrative Procedure Act: A Literature Review, Christopher J. Walker and Scott MacGuidwin
Precedential Decision Making in Agency Adjudication, Christopher J. Walker, Melissa F. Wasserman, and Matthew Lee Wiener
Intentionally Harming Others Without Benefit to Oneself, Peter K. Westen
Submissions from 2022
Build Back Better and Pillar Two: Two Alternative Scenarios, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
First Impressions of the International Tax Provisions of BBB: A Reasonable Compromise, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
International Taxation, Globalization, and the Economic Digital Divide, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
New Developments in US Treaty Overrides, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Rodriguez, Tucker, and the Dangers of Textualism, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Sunt Pacta Servanda? The Problem of Tax Treaty Overrides, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Taxing Nomads: Reviving Citizenship-Based Taxation for the 21st Century, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The BEAT and the BITs: Can the Us Be Sued Over the BEAT?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Benefits Principle, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Dubious Constitutional Origins of Treaty Overrides, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Interaction Between Unilateralism and Multilateralism in International Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The New International Tax Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Single Tax Principle, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Why the United States Needs the Global Minimum Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Tax Harmony: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Global Minimum Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Young Ran (Christine) Kim
A New Framework for Digital Taxation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Young Ran (Christine) Kim, and Karen Sam
A New Framework for Taxing Cryptocurrencies, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Mohanad Salaimi
Minimum Taxation in the United States in the Context of GloBE, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Mohanad Salaimi
The New Eugenics, Samuel R. Bagenstos
Ma’ii and Nanaboozhoo Fistfight in Heaven, Tamara Begay and Matthew L. M. Fletcher
The Problematic Structure of Indigent Defense Delivery, Eve Brensike Primus
Initial Public Offering and Optimal Corporate Governance, Albert H. Choi
Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing, Albert H. Choi and Kathryn E. Spier
No New Tax Cuts? Examining the Rescue Plan's New State Tax Limits, Conor Clarke and Edward G. Fox
Looking and Seeing, Nicolas Cornell
Criminal Enforcement of Section 2 of the Sherman Act: An Empirical Assessment, Daniel A. Crane
Humans in the Loop, Rebecca Crootof, Margot E. Kaminski, and W. Nicholson Price II
Funding Global Governance, Kristina Daugirdas
The New Major Questions Doctrine, Daniel Deacon and Leah Litman
The New Public/Private Equilibrium and the Regulation of Public Companies, Elisabeth de Fontenay and Gabriel V. Rauterberg
How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in America's Child Welfare System, Donald. N. Duquette
Reflections on Professionalism in Tribal Jurisdictions, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Preemption, Commandeering, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, Matthew L. M. Fletcher and Randall Khalil
Racial Discrimination in Life Insurance, William G. Gale, Kyle D. Logue, Nora Cahill, Rachel Gu, and Swati Joshi
Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States 2022, Samuel R. Gross, Maurice Possley, Ken Otterbourg, Klara Stephens, Jessica Paredes, and Barbara O'Brien
Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, and the Nineteenth Amendment, Ellen D. Katz
To Participate and Elect: Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act at 40, Ellen D. Katz, Brian Remlinger, Andrew Dziedzic, Brooke Simone, and Jordan Schuler
Evaluating Project Need for Natural Gas Pipelines in an Age of Climate Change, Alexandra B. Klass
Measuring the Harms of Unauthorized Campaign Music, Jake Linford and Aaron Perzanowski
Hierarchy, Race & Gender in Legal Scholarly Networks, Keerthana Nunna, W. Nicholson Price II, and Jonathan Tietz
On Firms, Sanjukta Paul
Love Hertz: Corporate Groups and Insolvency Forum Selection, John A. E. Pottow
Distributed Governance of Medical AI, W. Nicholson Price II
Liability for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, W. Nicholson Price II, Sara Gerke, and I. Glenn Cohen
Whether and How the U.S. Government Should Exercise Its Compulsory Licensing Authority Under 28 U.S.C. § 1498 and the Bayh-Dole Act, Arti K. Rai, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Tahir Amin, Henry Hadad, and Rachel Sachs
What is the Law’s Role in a Recession?, Gabriel V. Rauterberg and Joshua Younger
Unreasonable Risk: The Failure to Ban Asbestos and the Future of Toxic Substances Regulation, Rachel Rothschild
Prison and Jail Civil Rights/Conditions Cases: Longitudinal Statistics, 1970-2021, Margo Schlanger
Pandemic Rules: COVID-19 and the Prison Litigation Reform Act's Exhaustion Requirement, Margo Schlanger and Betsy Ginsberg
Ending the Discriminatory Pretrial Incarceration of People with Disabilities: Liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, Margo Schlanger, Elizabeth Jordan, and Roxana Moussavian
Learning to Manipulate a Financial Benchmark, Megan Shearer and Gabriel V. Rauterberg
Voices from a Prison Pandemic: Lives Lost from COVID-19 at Lakeland Correctional, Kimberly Thomas
When Integration by Stealth Meets Public Security: The EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation, Thomas Verellen
A Congressional Review Act for the Major Questions Doctrine, Christopher J. Walker
Submissions from 2021
Nurturing Freedom Dreams: An Approach to Movement Lawyering in the Black Lives Matter Era, Amanda Alexander
Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Kate Andrias and Benjamin I. Sachs
Is GILTI Constitutional?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Overcoming Political Polarization: Federal Funding of Education Is the Key, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Pleasingly Gaudy and Preposterous, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The US Taxpayer Bill of Rights: Reflections on a Toddler, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Constitutional Review of Federal Tax Legislation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Yoseph M. Edrey
Coca Cola: A Decisive IRS Transfer Pricing Victory, at Last, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
Noise Pollution, Patrick Barry
Reforming Michigan Vehicle Direct Sales Laws, Daniel A. Crane
Autonomy and the Folk Concept of Valid Consent, Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Roseanna Sommers
The Reincorporation of Prisoners into the Body Politic: Eliminating the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, Mira Edmonds
Rethinking the PLRA: The Resiliency of Injunctive Practice and Why It?s Not Enough, Allison Freedman
Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Samuel R. Gross, Maurice Possley, Kaitlin Roll, Klara Stephens, and National Registry of Exonerations
Understanding National Remedies and the Principle of National Procedural Autonomy: A Constitutional Approach, Daniel Halberstam
Edward S. Rogers, the Lanham Act and the Common Law, Jessica Litman
Problematic Interactions between AI and Health Privacy, W. Nicholson Price II
How Much Can Potential Jurors Tell Us About Liability for Medical Artificial Intelligence?, W. Nicholson Price II, Sara Gerke, and I. Glenn Cohen
New Innovation Models in Medical AI, W. Nicholson Price II, Rachel Sachs, and Rebecca S. Eisenberg
The Aggravating Duty of Non-Aggravation, Steven R. Ratner
The Problem with Assumptions: Revisiting the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism, Tamara Rice Lave, J. J. Prescott, and Grady Bridges
Narrowing the Remedial Gap: Damages for Disability Discrimination in Outsourced Federal Programs, Margo Schlanger
Reducing Prejudice Through Law: Evidence from Experimental Psychology, Roseanna Sommers and Sara Burke
Submissions from 2020
Constructive Dialogue: BEPS and the TCJA, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
COVID-19 and Us Tax Policy: What Needs to Change?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Do Lawyers Need Economists?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Should Us Tax Law Be Constitutionalized? Centennial Reflections on Eisner v. Macomber (1920), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Taxation and Business: The Human Rights Dimension of Corporate Tax Practices, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Taxes in the Time of Coronavirus: Is It Time to Revive the Excess Profits Tax?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Why Study Tax History?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Legitimacy and Agency Implementation of Title IX, Samuel R. Bagenstos
May Hospitals Withhold Ventilators from COVID-19 Patients with Pre-Existing Disabilities? Notes on the Law and Ethics of Disability-Based Medical Rationing, Samuel R. Bagenstos
Towards an Urban Disability Agenda, Samuel R. Bagenstos
Civil Procedure and Economic Inequality, Maureen Carroll
Fee-Shifting Statutes and Compensation for Risk, Maureen Carroll
Deal Protection Devices, Albert H. Choi
Antitrust Antitextualism, Daniel A. Crane
Member States' Due Diligence Obligations to Supervise International Organizations, Kristina Daugirdas
The Restatements of Foreign Relations and the Rule of Law, Kristina Daugirdas
Breaking the Silence: Why International Organizations Should Acknowledge Customary International Law Obligations to Provide Effective Remedies, Kristina Daugirdas and Sachi Schuricht
A Case for Higher Corporate Tax Rates, Edward G. Fox and Zachary D. Liscow
Of Bodies Politic and Pecuniary: A Brief History of Corporate Purpose, David Guenther