Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix

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PART I THE BEGINNINGS

`Why is the Common Law Efficient?', Journal of Legal Studies, VI (1), January, 51--63 3(13)

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`The Common Law Process and the Selection of Efficient Rules', Journal of Legal Studies, VI (1), January, 65--82 16(18)

George L. Priest

`An Economic Theory of the Evolution of Common Law', Journal of Legal Studies, VII (2), June, 393--406 34(14)

John C. Goodman

`A Strictly Evolutionary Model of Common Law', Journal of Legal Studies, X, June, 397--407 48(13)

R. Peter Terrebonne

PART II THE FIRST CRITICS

`Adjudication as a Private Good', Journal of Legal Studies, 8 (2), January, 235--84 61(50)

William M. Landes

Richard A. Posner

`Can Litigation Improve the Law Without the Help of Judges?', Journal of Legal Studies, 9 (1), January, 139--63 111(25)

Robert Cooter

Lewis Kornhauser

`Common Law and Statute Law', Journal of Legal Studies, XI, June, 205--23 136(19)

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`The Common Law as Central Economic Planning', Constitutional Political Economy, 3 (3), Fall, 289--319 155(34)

Peter H. Aranson

PART III EVOLUTIONARY CRITICS

`Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law: Cooperation Versus Conflict Strategies', in Richard O. Zerbe and Paul H. Rubin (eds), Research in Law and Economics, 4, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1--60 189(60)

Jack Hirshleifer

`Bias in the Evolution of Legal Rules', Georgetown Law Journal, 80, 583--616 249(34)

Gillian K. Hadfield

`Chaos and Evolution in Law and Economics', Harvard Law Review, 109, 641--68 283(28)

Mark J. Roe

`Path Dependence in the Law: The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System', Iowa Law Review, 86, 601--65 311(68)

Oona A. Hathaway

PART IV BIASED EVOLUTION

`The Role of Lawyers in Changing the Law', Journal of Legal Studies, 23, June, 807--31 379(25)

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Martin J. Bailey

`Litigation and the Evolution of Legal Remedies: A Dynamic Model', Public Choice, 116 (3--4), 419--33 404(17)

Vincy Fon

Francesco Parisi

PART V SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS

`The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law', Southern Economic Journal, 55 (3), January, 644--61 421(18)

Bruce L. Benson

`Dispute and Its Resolution: Delineating the Economic Role of the Common Law', American Law and Economics Review, 2 (2), Fall, 238--58 439(21)

Yoram Barzel

`Evolution of Rules in a Common Law System: Differential Litigation of the Fee Tail and Other Perpetuities', Florida State University Law Review, 32, 401--24 460(24)

Jeffrey Evans Stake

`Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution', American Law and Economics Review, 8 (1), Spring, 33--61 484(29)

Keith N. Hylton

`Law and Finance', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (6), December, 1113--55 513(46)

Rafael La Porta

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

Andrei Shleifer

Robert W. Vishny

PART VI HAYEKIAN (MACRO) EFFICIENCY

`The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might be Right', Journal of Legal Studies, XXX, June, 503--25 559(23)

Paul G. Mahoney

`The Rise and Fall of Efficiency in the Common Law: A Supply-Side Analysis', Northwestern University Law Review, 97 (4), 1551--633 582(85)

Todd J. Zywicki

PART VII SUMMING UP

`Micro and Macro Legal Efficiency: Supply and Demand', Supreme Court Economic Review, 13, 19--34 667(16)

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