Publications

 The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth
  Princeton University Press (2008)






 Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials
 (3rd. ed) (with Vicki L. Been)
 Aspen Law and Business (2005).







 Perspectives on Property Law
 (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman)
 Aspen Law and Business (3rd ed. 2002).






 Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials
 (2d. ed) (with Vicki L. Been)
 Aspen Law and Business (2000).





Perspectives on Property Law (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman)
Little, Brown & Company (2d ed. 1995).

 Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
 Harvard University Press (1991).





Cases and Materials on Land-Use Controls (with A. Dan Tarlock)
 Little, Brown & Company (1981).  Supplement (1984).  Supplement (1988).

A Decent Home: The Report of the President's  Committee on Urban Housing
(Parts 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12).  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office (1969).

ARTICLES: 

The Dauntless Gary Schwartz, 50 UCLA L. Rev. 265-68 (2002).

The Evolution of Social Norms: A Perspective from the Legal Academy, in SOCIAL NORMS 35-75 (Michael Hechter & Karl-Dieter Opp eds., 2001).

The Market for Social Norms, 3 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 1-49 (2001).

Taming Leviathan: Will the Centralizing Tide of the Twentieth Century Continue into the Twenty-first?, 74 S. CAL. L. REV. 101-18 (2000).

Monitoring the Mayor: Will the New Information Technologies Make Local Officials More Responsible?, 32 URB. LAW. 391-400 (2000).

Trends in Legal Scholarship: A Statistical Study, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 517-43 (2000).

The (Limited) Ability of Urban Neighbors to Contract for the Provision of Local Public Goods, in THE FALL AND RISE OF FREEDOM OF CONTRACT 192-200 (F.H. Buckley ed., 1999).

New Institutions for Old Neighborhoods, 48 DUKE L.J. 75-110 (1998).

Of Coase and Cattle, in THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM IN SOCIOLOGY 46-76 (Mary C. Brinton & Victor Nee eds., 1998).

The Market for “Law-and” Scholarship, 21 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 157-70 (1997).

Comment on “Contracting, Enforcement, and Efficiency: Economics beyond the Law,” by Avner Greif, ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 266-270 (M. Bruno & B. Pleskovic eds., 1997).

Takings Legislation: A Comment, 20 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 75-84 (1996).

Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows, and Public-Space Zoning, 105 YALE L.J. 1165-1248 (1996).

Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, 71 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 321-411 (1995) (with Thorland).

The Aim of Order Without Law, 150 J.I.T.E. 97-100 (1994).

A Right to Housing?, 4 RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY 43-48 (1994).

Property in Land, 102 YALE L.J. 1315-1400 (1993).

Rent Control: A Comment on Olson, 67 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 947-54 (1992).

The Untenable Case for an Unconditional Right to Shelter, 15 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 17-34 (1992).

The Homelessness Muddle, PUBLIC INTEREST, No. 99, at 45-60 (spring 1990).

Three Systems of Land-Use Contro, 13 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 67-74 (1990).

Bringing Culture and Human Frailty to Rational Actors, 65 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 23-55 (1989).

The Case for Coase and Against “Coaseanism”, 99 YALE L.J. 611-630 (1989).

A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry, 5 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 83-97 (1989).

The Legal Dimension of the Privatization Movement, 11 GEO. MASON U.L. REV. 157-164 (1988).

A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control, 16 J. LEGAL STUD. 67-99 (1987).

Adverse Possession and Perpetuities Law: Two Dents in the Libertarian Model of Property Rights, 64 WASH. U.L.Q. 723-737 (1986).

Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County, 38 STAN. L. REV. 623-87 (1986), reprinted in 18 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENTAL L. REV. 79-143 (S. Deutsch ed., 1987).

Inclusionary Zoning: Yet Another Misguided Urban Policy? PLANNING, Aug. 1985, at 18-20, also reprinted in INCLUSIONARY ZONING MOVES DOWNTOWN (D. Merriam, D. Brower & P. Tegeler eds., 1985).

Preface: The Effect of Growth Controls on Housing Prices on the San Francisco Peninsula, in LAND USE AND HOUSING ON THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA (Stanford Enviornmental Law Society, 1982 Annual).

Cities and Homeowners Associations, 130 U. PA. L. REV. 1519-80 (1982).

A Reply to Michelman and Frug, 130 U. PA. L. REV. 1602-08 (1982).

The Irony of “Inclusionary” Zoning, 54 S. CAL. L. REV. 1167-1216 (1981), reprinted in 14 LAND USE & ENVIORNMENT L. REV. 197-246 (S. Deutsch ed., 1983), and also published in slightly different form in RESOLVING THE HOUSING CRISIS 135-187 (M. Johnson ed., 1982).

The Role of Economics in the Teaching of Land-Use Law, 1 J. ENVTL. L. & POL. 1-11 (1980).

Public Property Rights: A Government’s Rights and Duties When Its Landowners Come Into Conflict with Outsiders, 52 S. CAL. L. REV. 1627-69 (1979) reprinted in 12 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENTAL L. REV. 129-174 (Donald Hagman ed., 1981) and also published in slightly different form as Public Property Rights: Vicarious Intergovernmental Rights and Liabilites as a Technique for Correcting Intergovernmental Spillovers in ESSAYS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 51-101 (Daniel Rubinfeld ed., 1979).

Comments on Regulation of Mortgage Lending in the Inner City, in URBAN HOUSING 179-85 (Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco 1979).

Suburban Growth Controls: An Economic and Legal Analysis, 86 YALE L.J. 385-511 (1977).

Ticket to Thermidor: A Commentary on the Proposed California Coastal Plan, 49 S. CAL. L. REV. 715-736 (1976).

Book Review of POLITICS OF LAND (Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Land Use in California), 47 S. CAL. L. REV. 641-672 (1973).

Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls, 40 U. CHI. L. REV. 681-781 (1973) [reprinted in Ackerman, ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF PROPERTY LAW (1975)].

Note, Government Housing Assistrance to the Poor, 76 YALE L.J. 508-544 (1967).