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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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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Alternative Institutions for Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis, 150 U. PA. L. REV. 1343 (2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Economics, Game Theory, Government Regulation

Climate Change Confusion and the Supreme Court: The Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV 1-75 (2008).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Regulated Industries

Desperately Seeking Numbers: Global Warming, Species Loss, and the Use and Abuse of Quantification in Climate Change Policy Analysis, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 101 (2007).
Date Posted: July 20, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law

Does Repeat Play Elicit Cooperation? Evidence from Federal Civil Litigation, 31(1) J. LEGAL ST. 39 (2002) (with Joel Waldfogel).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Civil Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Federal Courts, Jurisprudence, Management

Fashioning Entitlements: A Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of the Judicial Role in Environmental Centralization in the U.S. and Europe, in RESPONSIBILITY AND GOVERNANCE (Giorgio Brosio et al. eds., Edward Elgar 2007) (with Michael G. Faure).
Date Posted: July 20, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Comparative Law, Economics, Environmental Law

Investment, Information, and Promissory Liability, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 1923 (2004).
Date Posted: March 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Contracts, Economics, Jurisprudence

Law, Judicial Review and Formal Models of the Regulation Game: A Comment on de Figueiredo and de Figueiredo, 4 BUSINESS AND POLITICS 183 (August 2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Keywords: Administrative Law, Economics, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries

On the Commons and the Common Law, in Roger Meiners and Andrew Moriss, eds., THE COMMON LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT 211 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Government Regulation, Jurisprudence

On the Market for Ecosystem Control, 21 VA. ENVTL. L.J. 1791 (2001-2002).
Date Posted: March 15, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law

Paradoxes of the Safe Society: A Rational Actor Approach to the Reconceptualization of Risk and the Reformation of Risk Regulation, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 747 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Economics, Government Regulation, Rational Choice Theory, Risk

Should the Law Ignore Commercial Norms? A Comment on the Bernstein Conjecture and its Relevance for Contract Law Theory and Reform, 99 MICH. L. REV. 1791 (2001).
Date Posted: March 15, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Commercial Law
Keywords: Civil Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution

Signaling Social Responsibility: On the Law and Economics of Market Incentives for Corporate Environmental Performance, (U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 05-16, May 2005).
Date Posted: September 15, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Corporations, Economics, Environmental Law

The Law and Economics of Environmental Contracts, in Kurt Deketelaere and Eric Orts, eds., ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRACTS: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO REGULATORY INNOVATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE 271 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Contracts, Economics, Environmental Law

The Promise, and Limits of Voluntary Approaches to Regulatory Reform: An Economic and Legal Analysis of EPA’s Metal Finishing Industry Strategic Goals Program, in LEVERAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR 167 (Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash eds., 2006).
Date Posted: August 02, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries

The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory of How Standard Form Contracts Enable Cooperative Negotiation between Businesses and Consumers, 104 MICH. L. REV. 857 (2006).
Date Posted: August 02, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Business, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Law and Society

The Tragedy of Centralization: The Political Economics of American Natural Resource Federalism, 74 U. COLO. L. REV. 487 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Politics, Separation of Powers

Tradable Pollution Permits and the Regulatory Game, in MOVING TO MARKETS IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 353 (Charles Kolstad and Jody Freeman eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2006).
Date Posted: August 02, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Jason Johnston
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Game Theory, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries