Law
Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow, 104 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1175 (2006)
Self-Help and the Nature of Property, 1 JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & POLICY 69- 107 (2005)
Governing the Tele-Semicommons, 22 YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION 289-314 (2005)
Property and Property Rules, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1719-98 (2004)
Exclusion and Property Rules in the Law of Nuisance, 90 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 965-1049 (2004)
The Language of Property: Form, Context, and Audience, 55 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1105-91 (2003)
Exclusion versus Governance: Two Strategies for Delineating Property Rights, 31 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES S453-87 (2002)
Structured Settlements as Structures of Rights, 88 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1953-74 (2002)
What Happened to Property in Law and Economics?, 111 YALE LAW JOURNAL 357-98 (2001) (with Thomas W. Merrill)
The Property/Contract Interface, 101 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 773-852 (2001) (with Thomas W. Merrill)
Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle, 110 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1-70 (2000) (with Thomas W. Merrill)
Ambiguous Quality Changes from Taxes and Legal Rules, 67 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 647-723 (2000)
Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields, 29 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 131-69 (2000)
Intermediate Filing in Household Taxation, 72 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 145-245 (1998)
The Harm in Blackmail, 92 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 861-915 (1998)
The Modern Privilege: Its Nineteenth-Century Origins, in R.H. HELMHOLZ ET AL., THE PRIVILEGE AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION: ITS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1997)
In Draft:
Intellectual Property as Property: An Information Cost Approach
Modularity in Intellectual Property
The Morality of Property (with Thomas W. Merrill)
Property: Principles and Policies (with Thomas W. Merrill, forthcoming, Foundation Press)
Linguistics
Book
RESTRICTIVENESS IN CASE THEORY (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996)
Articles
“Dative Sickness” in Icelandic, 12 NAT. LANG. & LING. THEORY 675-736 (1994)
Linking Changes in Icelandic, in HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1989 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins 1993)
Arguments From Language Change, 29 J. LING. 431-47 (1993), with Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Brevity in Panini, 20 J. INDIAN PHILOSOPHY 133-47 (1992)
Dative Sickness and Abstractness in Icelandic, in ON GERMANIC LINGUISTICS: ISSUES AND METHODS (Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, & Robert L. Kyes, eds.; Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1992)
PRESENTATIONS
Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow, American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, May 2006; University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, January 2006; Northwestern Law School Law and Economics Workshop, October 2005; Columbia Law School Law and Economics Workshop, October 2005; Conference on “Boilerplate”: Foundations of Market Contracts, University of Michigan Law School, September 2005
Modularity in Intellectual Property, Boston University School of Law Faculty Workshop, March 2006; Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, February 2006; New York University School of Law, Law and Economics Workshop, February 2006; Conference on Commercializing Innovation, Washington University School of Law
Law and Morality, Conference on Law and Morality, William and Mary Law School, March 2006
What Happened to Property in Law and Economics?, University of Tokyo Law School, June 2005
Self-Help and the Nature of Property, University of Tokyo Law School, May 2005; American Law and Economics Annual Meeting, May 2005; Dartmouth College, Economics Department, November 2004; Conference on Property Rights on the Frontier: The Economics of Self-Help and Self-Defense in Cyberspace, George Mason University School of Law, September 2004.
Governing the Tele-Semicommons, Manhattan Institute Conference on Avoiding a Tragedy of the Telecommons, May 2004
Measurement and Exclusion in Intellectual Property Law, American Law and Economics Association, October 2003; University of Virginia School of Law, Intellectual Property Workshop, February 2004
Property and Property Rules, American Law and Economics Association, May 2004; Harvard Law School, Law and Economics Workshop. March 2004; University of Virginia School of Law, Faculty Workshop, February 2004; Chicago-Kent College of Law, Faculty Workshop, October 2003
The Language of Property, University of Toronto, Law and Economics Workshop, October 2002; Ohio State University College of Law, Faculty Workshop, September 2002; University of Pennsylvania Law School, Law and Economics Workshop, April 2002; University of Michigan Law School, Faculty Workshop, March 2002; Boston University Law and Economics Seminar, March 2002; Yale Law School, Faculty Workshop, October 2001; University of Chicago Law School, Faculty Workshop, August 2001
Two Dimensions of Property Rights, Western Economic Association, July 2001; American Law and Economics Association, May 2001; Conference on the Evolution of Property Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, April 2001; George Mason University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, April 2001; University of Chicago Law School, Faculty Workshop, October 2000; University of Southern California Law School, Faculty Workshop, September 2000; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics, Institutions, Law, and the Social Sciences Workshop, August 2000
The Property/Contract Interface, University of Michigan, Law and Economics Workshop, March 2001
Ambiguous Quality Changes from Taxes and Legal Rules, American Law and Economics Association, May 2000; Georgetown Law School Law and Economics Workshop, February 2000; University of Virginia School of Law, Faculty Workshop, November 1999; Harvard Law School Seminar on Current Research in Taxation, Woodstock, Vermont, August 1999
Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle (with Thomas W. Merrill), American Law and Economics Association, May 2000
The Numerus Clausus Principle and the Property/Contract Interface (with Thomas W. Merrill), Northwestern University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, February 2000
Contracting for Semi-Common Property Rights, Northwestern University Department of Economics, Workshop in Economic History, March 2000; American Law and Economics Association, May 1999; Northwestern University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, February 1999