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Tel: 215.898.4220
Email: csanchir@law.upenn.edu
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Chris William Sanchirico’s work spans several fields of legal scholarship but is chiefly focused on taxation and evidentiary procedure.
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Chris William Sanchirico’s work spans several fields of legal scholarship but is chiefly focused on taxation and evidentiary procedure. His work on taxation employs a range of methodologies. His recent research on the tax treatment of private equity funds, for instance, analyzes subtle aspects of tax law doctrine. His study of work patterns and income tax progressivity applies sophisticated statistical methods to complex datasets. And his contributions to the theory of optimal taxation use mathematical models to help refine policy discourse. Sanchirico’s work on evidentiary procedure is known for its creativity and for its focus on important issues that have been largely neglected in the literature. He argues in one recent article that the law makes good use of individuals’ bounded ability to process information. The insincere witness’ cognitive limitations, for example, help make cross examination effective. In other research Sanchirico argues that structural features of evidentiary process, such as those that exploit cognitive limitations, are often a better way of dealing with evidentiary misdeeds than attempting to penalize perjury or obstruction of justice.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law and Wharton’s Business & Public Policy Department - Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business and Public Policy (2009- ); Professor of Law, Business, and Public Policy (2003-09); Visiting Professor (fall 2002)
Board of Directors, American Law and Economics Association (2006-09)
University of Virginia - Professor (2002-03); Associate Professor (1999-2002)
Founding Editor, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND THE LAW ABSTRACTS (SSRN)
Center for Tax Law and Policy at Penn - Co-Director (2007- )
Chair, Evidence Section, Association of American Law Schools (2008-09)
Representative Publications
Tax Eclecticism (U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ Research Paper 09-38, Public Law Research Paper 09-29, 2009).
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A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income, TAX L. REV. (forthcoming 2009-2010).
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Evidentiary Arbitrage: The Fabrication of Evidence and the Verifiability of Contract Performance, 24 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 1 (2008) (with George G. Triantis).
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Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity, 108 COLUM. L. REV. 1551 (2008).
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The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?, 75 U. CHIC. L. REV. 1071 (2008).
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A Primary Activity Approach to Proof Burdens, J. LEGAL STUD. 273 (2008).
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Taxing Carry: The Problematic Analogy to "Sweat Equity," 117 TAX NOTES 239 (2007)
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THE ECONOMICS OF EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, AND LITIGATION: VOLS. 1 & 2 (2007).
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Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 279 (2006). (Joint work: Matthew Adler & Chris Sanchirico).
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Detection Avoidance, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1331 (2006).
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Evidence Tampering, 53 DUKE L. J. 1215 (2004).
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Collusion and Price Rigidity, 71 REV. ECON. STUD. 317 (2004) (with S. Athey and K. Bagwell).
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Evidence, Procedure, and the Upside of Cognitive Error , 57 STAN. L. REV. 291 (2004).
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Should Plaintiffs Win What Defendants Lose? Litigation Stakes, Litigation Effort, and the Benefits of Decoupling, 33 J. OF LEGAL STUD. 323 (2004) (with Albert Choi).
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Norms, Repeated Games, and the Role for Law, 91 CAL. L. REV. 1281 (2003) (with P. Mahoney).
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Relying on the Information of Interested--and Potentially Dishonest--Parties, 3 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 320 (2001).
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Character Evidence and the Object of Trial, 101 COLUM. L. REV. 1227 (2001).
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Deconstructing the New Efficiency Rationale, 86 CORNELL L. REV. 1003 (2001).
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Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 2027 (2001) (with Paul G. Mahoney).
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Games, Information and Evidence Production: With Application to English Legal History, 2 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 342 (2000).
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Taxes versus Legal Rules as Instruments for Equity: A More Equitable View, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 797 (2000).
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Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovering and Correcting Environmental Harm, 16 J. L. Econ. & Org. 189 (2000)
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The Role of Absolute Continuity in 'Merging of Opinions' and 'Rational Learning,' 29½ GAMES & ECON. BEH. 170 (1999) (with R. Miller).
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The Burden of Proof in Civil Litigation: A Simple Model of Mechanism Design, 17 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 431 (1997).
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A Probabilistic Model of Learning in Games, 64 ECONOMETRICA 1375 (1996).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Harnessing Adversarial Process: Optimal Strategic Complementarities in Litigation (U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ Research Paper 05-01, February 2005).
Almost Everybody Disagrees Almost All the Time: The Genericity of Weakly Merging Nowhere, (Columbia Economics Dept, Discussion Paper Series No. 9697-25, August 1997) (with Ronald I. Miller).
Representative Professional Activities
Founding Editor, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND THE LAW ABSTRACTS (Social Science Research Service).
Founding Editor, EVIDENCE AND EVIDENTIARY PROCEDURE ABSTRACTS (Social Science Research Service).
Member of the Board of Directors, American Law and Economics Association.
Chair, Evidence Section, Association of American Law Schools.
Editorial/Advisory Board Member, LAW, NORMS, AND INFORMATION (Social Science Research Service), REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS (Berkeley Electronic Press), INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON EVIDENCE (Berkeley Electronic Press).
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