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 2020
Making Sense of Customary International Law, Monica Hakimi
What Might (Finally) Kill the Jus ad Bellum, Monica Hakimi
The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation?, Nina A. Mendelson
Are Litigation Outcome Disparities Inevitable? Courts, Technology, and the Future of Impartiality, Avital Mentovich, J. J. Prescott, and Orna Rabinovich-Einy
Delegation at the Founding, Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley
Understanding Violent-Crime Recidivism, J. J. Prescott, Benjamin Pyle, and Sonja B. Starr
Clearing Opacity through Machine Learning, W. Nicholson Price II and Arti K. Rai
Acknowledgements as a Window into Legal Academia, W. Nicholson Price II and Jonathan Tietz
Herein of 'Herein Granted': Why Article I's Vesting Clause Does Not Support the Doctrine of Enumerated Powers, Richard Primus
Suspect Spheres, Not Enumerated Powers: A Guide to Leaving the Lamppost, Richard Primus and Roderick M. Hills, Jr.
The Support-or-Advocacy Clauses, Richard Primus and Cameron O. Kistler
Back to the Future: Creating a Bipartisan Environmental Movement for the 21st Century, David M. Uhlmann
New Environmental Crimes Project Data Shows That Pollution Prosecutions Plummeted During the First Two Years of the Trump Administration, David M. Uhlmann
The Personal Responsibility Pandemic: Centering Solidarity in Public Health and Employment Law, Lindsay F. Wiley and Samuel R. Bagenstos
Submissions from 2019
An American Approach to Social Democracy: The Forgotten Promise of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Kate Andrias
Janus’s Two Faces, Kate Andrias
Peril and Possibility: Strikes, Rights, and Legal Change in the Age of Trump, Kate Andrias
Does Customary International Tax Law Exist?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Globalization, Tax Competition and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State: A Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
If Not Now, When? US Tax Treaties with Latin America after TCJA, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Toward a 21st-Century International Tax Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Kimberly A. Clausing
The Procedure Fetish, Nicholas Bagley
Equitable Gateways: Toward Expanded Federal Habeas Corpus Review of State Court Criminal Convictions, Eve Brensike Primus
Location Tracking and Digital Data: Can Carpenter Build a Stable Privacy Doctrine?, Evan Caminker
Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Nineteenth Amendment Right to Vote and Congress's Power to Enforce It, Richard L. Hasen and Leah Litman
Return of an Employee's Claim of Right Income, Douglas A. Kahn
Suspension of Miscellaneous Itemized Deductions is Ill-Advised, Douglas A. Kahn
The 2016-17 Survey of Applied Legal Education, Robert R. Kuehn and David A. Santacroce
Imaginary Bottles, Jessica Litman
The Executive Power Clause, Julian Davis Mortenson
Targeting Poverty in the Courts: Improving the Measurement of Ability to Pay, Meghan M. O'Neil and J. J. Prescott
Artificial Intelligence in the Medical System: Four Roles for Potential Transformation, W. Nicholson Price II
Medical AI and Contextual Bias, W. Nicholson Price II
The Cost of Novelty, W. Nicholson Price II
Global Investment Rules as a Site for Moral Inquiry, Steven R. Ratner
Neglecting Nationalism, Gil Seinfeld
Reckless Juveniles, Kimberly Thomas
Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime Redux: Charging Trends, Aggravating Factors, and Individual Outcome Data for 2005-2014, David M. Uhlmann
Poor Wesley Hohfeld, Peter K. Westen
Unwitting Justification, Peter K. Westen
The Dialogic Aspect of Soft Law in International Insolvency: Discord, Digression, and Development, Avi Zevin
Submissions from 2018
The Fortification of Inequality: Constitutional Doctrine and the Political Economy, Kate Andrias
Altera and the Arm’s Length Standard, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Beat It: Tax Reform and Tax Treaties, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Designing a 21st Century Taxing Threshold: Some International Implications of South Dakota vs. Wayfair, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
How Terrible Is the New Tax Law? Reflections on TRA17, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Elephant Always Forgets: Tax Reform and the WTO, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The International Provisions of the TCJA: A Preliminary Summary and Assessment, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The International Provisions of the TCJA: Six Results after Six Months, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
US Tax Reform: Potential Impact on Europe and EU Corporations (Presentation Slides), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Putting the Public Benefit in Cost Benefit Analysis of Tax Regulations: A Response to Hemel, Nou and Weisbach, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Yoseph M. Edrey
BEPS, ATAP and the New Tax Dialogue: A Transatlantic Competition?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
Due Diligence in International Tax Law, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
The Elephant Always Forgets: US Tax Reform and the WTO, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Martin Vallespinos
Antitrust and Democracy: A Case Study from German Fascism, Daniel A. Crane
Antitrust's Unconventional Politics, Daniel A. Crane
International Organizations and the Creation of Customary International Law, Kristina Daugirdas
Errors in Misdemeanor Adjudication, Samuel R. Gross
Techniques for Regulating Military Force, Monica Hakimi
The Theory and Practice at the Intersection Between Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Monica Hakimi
The Jus Ad Bellum's Regulatory Form, Monica Hakimi
'A People for Certain Purposes': On the History and Philosophy of Federalism(s) in the United States and Europe, Daniel Halberstam
Michigan's Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry Adams
What We Don't See When We See Copyright as Property, Jessica Litman
Change, Creation, and Unpredictability in Statutory Interpretation: Interpretive Canon Use in the Roberts Court's First Decade, Nina A. Mendelson
Why Is It Wrong To Punish Thought?, Gabriel Mendlow
Lawyer as Soothsayer: Exploring the Important Role of Outcome Prediction in the Practice of Law, Mark K. Osbeck
The Strange Pairing: Building Alliances between Queer Activists and Conservative Groups to Recognize New Families, Nausica Palazzo
Assessing Access-to-Justice Outreach Strategies, J. J. Prescott
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Applications and Legal Issues, W. Nicholson Price II
Drug Approval in a Learning Health System, W. Nicholson Price II
Grants, W. Nicholson Price II
The Elephant Problem, Richard Primus
'The Essential Characteristic': Enumerated Powers and the Bank of the United States, Richard Primus
The Republic in Long-Term Perspective, Richard Primus
Wrong Turn on the Ex Post Facto Clause, Paul D. Reingold and Kimberly Thomas
The Beat and Treaty Overrides: A Brief Response to Rosenbloom and Shaheen, Bret Wells and Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Reflections on Joshua Dressler's Understanding Criminal Law, Peter K. Westen
Submissions from 2017
Altera, the Arm’s Length Standard, and Customary International Tax Law, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Amazon vs. Commissioner: Has Cost Sharing Outlived Its Usefulness?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Guilty as Charged: Reflections on TRA 17, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Slicing and Dicing: The Structural Problems of the Tax Reform Framework, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Territoriality and the Original Intent of Subpart F, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Triumph of BEPS: US Tax Reform and the Single Tax Principle, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
What a Difference Thirty Years Make: A Comparison of the Tax Reforms of 1986, 2014 and 2017, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Be Careful What You Wish For? Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Orli Avi-Yonah
Once More, With Feeling: TRA 17 And Original Intent of Subpart F, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Nir Fishbien
Are Taxes Converging?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
The Trump Tax Reform Plan: Implications for Europe, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
Tit for Tat: How Will Other Countries React to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni
Special Tax Zones and the WTO, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Martin Vallespinos
A Global Treaty Override? The New OECD Multilateral Tax Instrument and Its Limits, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Haiyan Xu
China and the Future of the International Tax Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Haiyan Xu
Educational Equality for Children with Disabilities: The 2016 Term Cases, Samuel R. Bagenstos
Implicit Bias's Failure, Samuel R. Bagenstos
Federalism and the End of Obamacare, Nicholas Bagley
Disentangling Miranda and Massiah: How to Revive the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel as a Tool for Regulating Confession Law, Eve Brensike Primus
Lead Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers: Mission Accomplished, or More to Be Done?, Stephen J. Choi and Adam C. Pritchard
A Lawyer's Odyssey: Constitutive Conversation in Literature and Law, Sherman J. Clark
Why Sports Law?, Sherman J. Clark