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2009 CLEO Working Paper Series
- C09-1 Richard A. Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa, Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries (forthcoming in Diener, Helliwell and Kahneman (eds.) International Differences in Wellbeing (Oxford University Press)).
- C09-2 Camille Gear Rich, Marginal Whiteness.
- C09-3 Camille Gear Rich, What Dignity Demands: The Challenges of Creating Sexual Harassment Protections for Non-Workplace Settings.
- C09-4 Shmuel Leshem and Geoffrey P. Miller, All-or-Nothing versus Proportionate Damages.
- C09-5 Gillian K. Hadfield, Legal Barriers to Innovation (Regulation, Vol. 31, #3, Fall 2008).
- C09-6 Edward J. McCaffery, Behavioral Dimensions of Tax Reform.
- C09-7 Edward J. McCaffery and James R. Hines, Jr., The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax.
- C09-8 Douglas G. Baird and Robert K. Rasmussen, Anti-Bankruptcy.
- C09-9 James C. Spindler, IPO Underpricing, Disclosure, and Litigation Risk.
- C09-10 Nina Walton, Gatekeepers and CEO Reputation.
- C09-11 James C. Spindler, How Private Is Private Equity, and at What Cost? (forthcoming, 76 Univ. of Chicago L. Rev. 309 (2009)).
- C09-12 Nuno Garoupa and Daniel Klerman, Corruption and Private Law Enforcement: Theory and History.
- C09-13 Gillian K. Hadfield, Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans.
- C09-14 Gillian K. Hadfield, The Strategy of Methodology: The Virtues of Being Reductionist for Comparative Law (59 U. of Toronto L.J. 223 (2009)).
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- C09-16 Edward J. McCaffery, Through the Looking Glass: The Politics of Estate Tax Reform (forthcoming in ACTEC Journal (2009)).
- C09-17 Gregory C. Keating, The Heroic Enterprise of the Asbestos Cases (37 Southwestern L. Rev. 623 (2008)).
- C09-18 Gregory C. Keating, Is Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress A Freestanding Tort? (44 Wake Forest L. Rev. (forthcoming, Fall 2009)).
- C09-19 Jonathan M. Barnett, Is Intellectual Property Trivial? (157 U. of Pennsylvania L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009)).
- C09-20 James C. Spindler, Endogenous Compensation in a Firm with Disclosure and Moral Hazard.
- C09-21 Nina Walton, The Price of Admission: Who gets into private school, and how much do they pay?
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