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 2013
To Teach and Persuade, Sherman J. Clark
Bargaining over Loyalty, Daniel A. Crane
Enacted Legislative Findings and the Deference Problem, Daniel A. Crane
Congress Underestimated: The Case of the World Bank, Kristina Daugirdas
David Baldus and the Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp, Samuel R. Gross
How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There?, Samuel R. Gross
Unfriendly Unilateralism, Monica Hakimi
Supervising the Refugee Convention: Introduction, James C. Hathaway, Anthony North, and Jason M. Pobjoy
Queer Cases Make Bad Law, James C. Hathaway and Jason M. Pobjoy
(Monsanto Lecture) What Does Tort Law Do? What Can it Do?, Scott Hershovitz
The Model of Plans and the Prospects for Positivism, Scott Hershovitz
Tort as a Substitute for Revenge, Scott Hershovitz
Understanding the AMT, and Its Unadopted Sibling, the AMxT, James R. Hines Jr. and Kyle D. Logue
'Quack Corporate Governance' as Traditional Chinese Medicine – The Securities Regulation Cannibalization of China's Corporate Law and a State Regulator's Battle Against Party State Political Economic Power, Nicholas Calcina Howson
中国过于宽泛的内幕交易执法制度 - 立法授权和监管机构实践 (China's Overbroad Insider Trading Enforcement Regime -- Statutory Authorization and Agency Practice), Nicholas Calcina Howson
Hughes v. Jackson: Race and Rights Beyond Dred Scott, Martha S. Jones
The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole De Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City, Martha S. Jones
A Proposed Replacement of the Tax Expenditure Concept and a Different Perspective on Accelerated Depreciation, Douglas A. Kahn
A Cure Worse than the Disease?, Ellen D. Katz
South Carolina's 'Evolutionary Process', Ellen D. Katz
CEO Connectedness and Corporate Frauds, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, E. Han Kim, and Yao Lu
2012 Joseph Trachtman Memorial Lecture, John H. Langbien and Lawrence W. Waggoner
Growing Up in Law & Society: The Pulls of Policy and Methods, Richard Lempert
In Pursuit of Human Dignity: An Introduction to Current Debates, Christopher McCrudden
Reva Siegel and the Role of Religion in Constructing the Meaning of 'Human Dignity', Christopher McCrudden
Courts and Consociations, or How Human Rights Courts May De-Stabilize Power-Sharing Settlements, Christopher McCrudden and Brendan O'Leary
Private Control Over Access to the Law: The Perplexing Federal Regulatory Use of Private Standards, Nina A. Mendelson
Should Mass Comments Count?, Nina A. Mendelson
Is the Vienna Convention Hostile to Drafting History?, Julian Davis Mortenson
The Uneasy Role of Precedent in Defining Investment, Julian Davis Mortenson
Student Intellectual Property Issues on the Entrepreneurial Campus, Bryce Pilz
Mitigating the Problem of Vulture Holdout: International Certification Boards for Sovereign Debt Restructurings, John A. E. Pottow
A Presumptively Better Approach to Arbitrability, John A. E. Pottow, Jacob Brege, and Tara Hawley
Unbundling Constitutionality, Richard Primus
An Analytical Framework for Legal Evaluation of Boilerplate, Margaret Jane Radin
Boilerplate: A Threat to the Rule of Law?, Margaret Jane Radin
Ethics and International Law: Integrating the Global Justice Project(s), Steven R. Ratner
Offices of Goodness: Influence Without Authority in Federal Agencies, Margo Schlanger
Prison Segregation: Symposium Introduction and Preliminary Data on Racial Disparities, Margo Schlanger
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace, Margo Schlanger and Pauline Kim
O Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e os Usos Da História (Contemporary Slave Labor and the Uses of History), Rebecca J. Scott
Under Color of Law: Siliadin v France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective, Rebecca J. Scott
Case Law, Systematic Law, and a Very Modest Suggestion, Andrew Stumpff Morrison
Substantive Habeas, Kimberly Thomas
Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements and the Erosion of Corporate Criminal Liability, David M. Uhlmann
Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime, David M. Uhlmann
Toward a Sustainable Future: An Environmental Agenda for the Second Term of the Obama Administration, David M. Uhlmann
Meaning in the Natural World, Joseph Vinning
Congress Promotes Perpetual Trusts: Why?, Lawrence W. Waggoner
The Creeping Federalization of Wealth-Transfer Law, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Why I Do Law Reform, Lawrence W. Waggoner
The Significance of Transferred Intent, Peter K. Westen
Submissions from 2012
Carbon Tax, Health Care Tax, Bank Tax and Other Regulatory Taxes, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Taxation in a Small Country: Review of Sven-Olof Lodin's 'The Making of Tax Law - The Development of Swedish Taxation', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Tax Competition and the Trend toward Territoriality, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Vive La Petite Difference: Camp, Obama, and Territoriality Reconsidered, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
U.S. Treaty Anti-Avoidance Rules: An Overview and Assessment, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi
US Subpart F Legislative Proposals: A Comparative Perspective, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Nicola Sartori
Understanding Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws, Ronen Avraham, Kyle D. Logue, and Daniel Schwarcz
Federalism by Waiver after the Health Care Case, Samuel R. Bagenstos
The Anti-Leveraging Principle and the Spending Clause after NFIB, Samuel R. Bagenstos
The Past and Future of Deinstitutionalization Litigation, Samuel R. Bagenstos
The Influence of Arbitrator Background and Representation on Arbitration Outcomes, Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch, and Adam C. Pritchard
The Obama Justice Department's Merger Enforcement Record: An Armchair Reply to Baker and Shapiro, Daniel A. Crane
Profits v. Purpose: Hybrid Companies and the Charitable Dollar, Rachel Culley and Jill R. Horwitz
'Building Social Justice Leaders in the Aftermath of Proposal 2' - The Evolution of Map: A Case Study About the University of Michigan Law School’s Diversity Program, Christine Gregory
Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012, Samuel R. Gross, Michael Shaffer, and National Registry of Exonerations
A Functional Approach to Targeting and Detention, Monica Hakimi
Corrective Justice for Civil Recourse Theorists, Scott Hershovitz
Punishing Possession - China's All-Embracing Insider Trading Enforcement Regime, Nicholas Calcina Howson
Retirees Beware: Don't Worry About the British -- 2013 is Coming, Douglas A. Kahn and Lawrence W. Waggoner
The Rise, Decline and Fall (?) of Miranda, Yale Kamisar
Democrats at DOJ: Why Partisan Use of the Voting Rights Act Might Not Be So Bad After All, Ellen D. Katz
On Overreaching, or Why Rick Perry May Save the Voting Rights Act but Destroy Affirmative Action, Ellen D. Katz
Worker Cooperative Creation as Progressive Lawyering? Moving Beyond the One-Person, One-Vote Floor, Gowri Krishna
The 2010-11 Survey of Applied Legal Education, Robert R. Kuehn and David A. Santacroce
How the Gun-Free School Zones Act Saved the Individual Mandate, Richard Primus
Facebook, The JOBS Act, and Abolishing IPOs, Adam C. Pritchard
Behind the Flag of Dunant: Secrecy and the Compliance Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Steven R. Ratner
Persuading to Comply: On the Deployment and Avoidance of Legal Argumentation, Steven R. Ratner
Self-Defense Against Terrorists: The Meaning of Armed Attack, Steven R. Ratner
Democratizing International Law, Steven R. Ratner and Robert E. Goodin
Plata v. Brown and Realignment: Jails, Prisons, Courts, and Politics, Margo Schlanger
The Law is a Fractal: The Attempt to Anticipate Everything, Andrew Stumpff Morrison
The Quest for a Sustainable Future and the Dawn of a New Journal at Michigan Law, David M. Uhlmann
Class Gifts Under the Restatement (Third) of Property, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Effectively Curbing the GST Exemption for Perpetual Trusts, Lawrence W. Waggoner
'Perpetual Trusts: The Walking Dead' and 'Congress Should Effectively Curb GST Exemption for Perpetual Trusts', Lawrence W. Waggoner and Calvin H. Johnson
Why the Paradox of Blackmail Is So Hard to Resolve, Peter K. Westen
Submissions from 2011
Beyond Territoriality and Deferral: The Promise of 'Managed and Controlled', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Deja Vu All Over Again? Reflections on Auerbach's 'Modern Corporate Tax', Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Money on the Table: Why the U.S. Should Tax Inbound Capital Gains, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Real Time Audit – It is the Time to Act?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Oz Halabi
The Effective Tax Rate of the Largest US and EU Multinationals, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Yaron Lahav
Preferences for Banking and Payment Services Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, Michael S. Barr, Jane Dokko, and Elea McDonnell Feit
A Crisis in Federal Habeas Law, Eve Brensike Primus
Rethinking Merger Efficiencies, Daniel A. Crane
Search Neutrality as an Antitrust Principle, Daniel A. Crane
Pretrial Incentives, Post-Conviction Review, and Sorting Criminal Prosecutions by Guilt or Innocence, Samuel R. Gross
Federalism: A Critical Guide, Daniel Halberstam