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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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Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 1121 (2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Government Regulation, Risk

Beyond Efficiency and Procedure: A Welfarist Theory of Regulation, 28 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 241 (2000) (contribution to symposium on regulatory theory, with responses by Rob Atkinson and Dan Rodriguez).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Administrative Law, Government Regulation, Legal Philosophy

Bounded Rationality and Legal Scholarship, in THE METHODOLOGY OF LAW AND ECONOMICS (Mark White ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008).
Date Posted: January 23, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES (2000) (with ERIC POSNER).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and History
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Can Constitutional Borrowing be Justified? A Comment on Tushnet, 2 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 350 (1998).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law

Cognitivism, Controversy and Moral Heuristics, 28 BEHAV. & BRAIN SCI. 542 (2005).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law

Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review, 89 VA. L. REV. 1105 (2003) (with Michael C. Dorf).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Separation of Powers

Constitutional Fidelity, The Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn in Contemporary Positivism, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1671 (2006).
Date Posted: February 22, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Corrective Justice and Liability for Global Warming, 155 U. PA . L. REV. 1859 (2007).
Date Posted: January 25, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Moral and Political Philosophy

Cost Benefit Analysis, Static Efficiency, and the Goals of Environmental Law, 31 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 591 (2004).
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Risk

Cost-Benefit Analysis, PROCEEDINGS OF LISBON CONF. ON LEGAL EVALUATION (forthcoming 2006)
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Risk

Cost-Benefit Analysis, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (forthcoming 2006)
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Risk

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Introduction, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 837 (2000) (with Eric Posner).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Risk

Cost-Benefit Analysis: New Foundations,in 42/43 LEGISLACAO: CADERNOS DE CIENCIA DE LEGISLACAO 63 (2006) (published Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Evaluation, held in Lisbon, January 2005).
Date Posted: January 25, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics

Does the Constitution Require (Basic or Strengthened) Public Rationality?, in LINKING LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (Christoph Engel & Adrienne Heritier eds., 2003).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory

Economic Growth and the Interests of Future (and Past and Present) Generations: A Comment on Tyler Cowen, 74 U. CHI. L. REV. 41 (2007)
Date Posted: January 25, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics

Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy, in ON RISK AND DISASTER: LESSONS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA 129 (Ronald Daniels et al. eds., 2006)
Date Posted: February 22, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Law and Equality, Philosophy

Expression and Appearance: A Comment on Hellman, 60 MD. L. REV. 688 (2001).
Date Posted: March 16, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Free Speech, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Professional Ethics

Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview, 148 U. PA. L. REV. 1363 (2000) (with a response by Elizabeth Anderson and Richard Pildes).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Fairness Versus Welfare (book review), 115 ETHICS 824 (2005).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Law and Equality, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety, 79 CHI. -KENT L. REV 977 (2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Government Regulation, Health Economics, Risk

Future Generations: A Prioritarian View, 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1478 (2009) (contribution to symposium on future generations).
Date Posted: October 08, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Risk

Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 37 J. LEGAL STUD. S253 (2008) (co-authored with Eric Posner).
Date Posted: January 23, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Legal Philosophy, Social Welfare

Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis when Preferences are Distorted, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 1105 (2000) (with Eric Posner) (also published as a chapter in COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and History
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Incommensurability and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 146 U. PA. L. REV. 1371 (1998).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory

Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason (book review), 19 PHIL. IN REV. 168 (1999).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Philosophy

Incorporating Fear Assessment Into Cost-Benefit Analysis, 29 ADMIN. & REG. L. NEWS 4 (2004).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Rational Choice Theory, Risk

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

Introduction to Conference Report on White House Review of Regulation (report of conference on OIRA review held at Penn Law in December 2006, introduction co-authored with Cary Coglianese, 2007).
Date Posted: January 25, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler

Judicial Restraint in the Administrative State: Beyond the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 145 U. PA. L. REV. 759 (1997).
Date Posted: August 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Regulatory Systems, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Justification, Legitimacy, and Administrative Governance, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Article 3 (2005).
Date Posted: August 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy

Law and Incommensurability: Introduction, 146 U. PA. L. REV. 1169 (1998).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Legal Philosophy

Legal Transitions: Some Welfarist Remarks, 13 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 5 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice, Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Economics, Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory

Linguistic Meaning, Nonlinguistic "Expression," and the Multiple Variants of Expressivisim: A Reply to Professors Anderson and Pildes, 148 U. PA. L. REV. 1577 (2000).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Social Science and the Law

NEW FOUNDATIONS OF COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS (2006) (with Eric Posner).
Date Posted: May 16, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory, Risk

Personal Rights and Rule-Dependence: Can the Two Coexist?, 6 LEGAL THEORY 337 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards, 56 DUKE L.J. 1 (2006)
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Risk

Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis, 32 ADMIN. & REG. L. 11 (2007).
Date Posted: January 25, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Risk

Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?, 100 NW. U. L. REV. 719 (2006).
Date Posted: May 16, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Preferences and Rational Choice: Introduction, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 707 (2003) (with Claire Finkelstein and Peter Huang).
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Matthew Adler, Claire Finkelstein, and Peter Huang
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Rational Choice Theory

QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective, 6 YALE J. HEALTH POL’Y, L. & ETHICS 1 (2006).
Date Posted: May 16, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Rational Choice Theory, Risk, Social Science and the Law

Rational Choice, Rational Agenda-Setting and Constitutional Law: Does the Constitution Require Basic or Strengthened Public Rationality?, in LINKING LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (Christoph Engel & Adrienne Heritier eds., 2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Rational Choice Theory

Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, 109 YALE L.J. 165 (1999) (with Eric Posner).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and History
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure of American Constitutional Law, 97 MICH. L. REV. 1 (1998).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Rights and Rules: An Overview, 6 LEGAL THEORY 241 (2000) (with Michael Dorf).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Social Science and the Law

Rights, Rules, and the Structure of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response to Professor Fallon, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1371 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities (book review), NOTRE DAME PHIL. REV. (2002).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Risk Equity: A New Proposal, 32 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 1 (2008).
Date Posted: July 19, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Administrative Law, Economics, Environmental Law, Law and Equality, Philosophy, Regulated Industries, Risk, Social Welfare

Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation, 87 MINN. L. REV. 1293 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and History, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Government Regulation, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Risk

Risk, Death, and Time: A Comment on Judge Williams' Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis, 53 ADMIN. L. REV 271 (2001).
Date Posted: March 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Administrative Law, Economics, Environmental Law, Risk

State Sovereignty and the Anti-Commandeering Cases, 574 ANNALS AM. ACAD. POL. & SOC. SCI. 158 (2001).
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Separation of Powers, State and Local Government Law

THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE CONSTITUTION (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009) (co-edited with Kenneth Himma).
Date Posted: January 24, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey, 1998 SUP. CT. REV. 71 (with Seth Kreimer).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

The Positive Political Theory of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment on Johnston, 150 U. PA. L. REV. 1429 (2002).
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Administrative Law, Game Theory, Government Regulation, Organizations

The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (book review), 20 PHIL. IN REV. 142 (2000)
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Philosophy

The Puzzle of "Ex Ante Efficiency": Does Rational Approvability Have Moral Weight?, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 1255 (2003).
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Economics, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory

WELL-BEING AND EQUITY: A FRAMEWORK FOR POLICY ANALYSIS (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010).
Date Posted: March 18, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Risk, Securities Law

Welfare Polls: A Synthesis, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1875 (2006).
Date Posted: February 22, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Social Welfare

Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time Slice Problem and its Policy Implications (working paper)
Date Posted: January 23, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences, Taxation
Keywords: Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare, Taxation-Federal Income, Welfare Law

What States Owe Outsiders, 20 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 391 (1993)
Date Posted: June 05, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, State and Local Government Law

Why De Minimis? (working paper)
Date Posted: January 23, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Matthew Adler
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Law and Technology, Legal Philosophy, Rational Choice Theory, Regulated Industries, Risk, Social Welfare