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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Civil Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Economics, Jurisprudence, Litigation

A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income, TAX L. REV. (forthcoming 2009-2010).
Date Posted: March 09, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Business, Taxation
Keywords: Labor Economics, Taxation-Federal Income

A Primary Activity Approach to Proof Burdens, J. LEGAL STUD. 273 (2008).
Date Posted: June 16, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Evidence, Litigation, Practice and Procedure

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).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Rational Choice Theory

Big Field, Small Potatoes: An Empirical Assessment of EPA's Self-Audit Policy, 23 J. POL'Y ANALYSIS & MGMT. 415 (2004) (with Alexander Pfaff).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries

Character Evidence and the Object of Trial, 101 COLUM. L. REV. 1227 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Evidence, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Practice and Procedure

Collusion and Price Rigidity, 71 REV. ECON. STUD. 317 (2004) (with S. Athey and K. Bagwell).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Antitrust, Economics, Game Theory, Organizations

Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 2027 (2001) (with Paul G. Mahoney).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Corporations, Economics, Game Theory, Legal Studies, Social Science and the Law

Deconstructing the New Efficiency Rationale, 86 CORNELL L. REV. 1003 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Jurisprudence, Legal Studies

Detection Avoidance, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1331 (2006).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Administrative Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Economics, Evidence, Jurisprudence, Practice and Procedure

Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovering and Correcting Environmental Harm, 16 J. L. Econ. & Org. 189 (2000)
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries

Evidence Tampering, 53 DUKE L. J. 1215 (2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Evidence, Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics, Professional Ethics

Evidence, Procedure, and the Upside of Cognitive Error , 57 STAN. L. REV. 291 (2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Evidence, Jurisprudence, Legal Studies, Practice and Procedure, Psychology and Psychiatry

Evidentiary Arbitrage: The Fabrication of Evidence and the Verifiability of Contract Performance, 24 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 1 (2008) (with George G. Triantis).
Date Posted: May 28, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Commercial Law, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Contracts, Evidence

Finding Error, 4 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1189 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Evidence, Jurisprudence, Psychology and Psychiatry, Social Science and the Law

Games, Information and Evidence Production: With Application to English Legal History, 2 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 342 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and History, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Comparative Law, Economics, Evidence, Game Theory, Legal History, Practice and Procedure

General and Specific Legal Rules, 161 J. INST'L & THEOR. ECON. 329 (2005)(with Paul G. Mahoney).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Government Regulation, Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Regulated Industries

Harnessing Adversarial Process: Optimal Strategic Complementarities in Litigation (U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ Research Paper 05-01, February 2005).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Civil Litigation, Evidence, Game Theory, Litigation, Practice and Procedure

Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 279 (2006). (Joint work: Matthew Adler & Chris Sanchirico).
Date Posted: February 22, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Matthew Adler and Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Law and Equality, Social Welfare

Norms, Repeated Games, and the Role for Law, 91 CAL. L. REV. 1281 (2003) (with P. Mahoney).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Game Theory, Jurisprudence, Law and Society, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law

Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity, 108 COLUM. L. REV. 1551 (2008).
Date Posted: March 09, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Labor Economics, Taxation-Federal Income, Taxation-State and Local

Relying on the Information of Interested--and Potentially Dishonest--Parties, 3 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 320 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Economics, Evidence, Jurisprudence, Legal Studies, Practice and Procedure

THE ECONOMICS OF EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, AND LITIGATION: VOLS. 1 & 2 (2007).
Date Posted: June 16, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Evidence, Litigation, Practice and Procedure

Tax Eclecticism (U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ Research Paper 09-38, Public Law Research Paper 09-29, 2009).
Date Posted: October 22, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Taxation
Keywords: Taxation-Federal Estate and Gift, Taxation-Federal Income, Taxation-State and Local

Taxes versus Legal Rules as Instruments for Equity: A More Equitable View, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 797 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Taxation
Keywords: Economics, Income Taxation, Jurisprudence, Law and Equality, Legal Studies, Practice and Procedure, Taxation-Federal Income

Taxing Carry: The Problematic Analogy to "Sweat Equity," 117 TAX NOTES 239 (2007)
Date Posted: October 16, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Taxation
Keywords: Accounting, Business Entities, Income Taxation, Partnerships, Taxation-Federal Income

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).
Date Posted: July 09, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Chris William Sanchirico
Subjects: Taxation
Keywords: Income Taxation, Taxation-Federal Income