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2002 USC Legal Studies Working Paper Series
- 02-1 Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, The Humpty Dumpty Blues: Disaggregation Bias in the Evaluation of Tax Systems.
- 02-2 Gregory C. Keating, Pressing Precaution Beyond the Point of Cost-Justification.
- 02-3 Dan Simon and Keith J. Holyoak, Structural Dynamics of Cognition: From Consistency Theories to Constraint Satisfaction, 6 Personality and Social Psychology Review 283 (2002).
- 02-4 Mary L. Dudziak, On Using Diplomatic Records for Research on African Constitutions: A Guide to the Archives (forthcoming in the Newsletter of the Africa Section of the Association of American Law Schools (2002)).
- 02-5 Marcel Kahan and Ehud Kamar, The Myth of State Competition in Corporate Law, 55 Stanford Law Review 679 (2002).
- 02-6 Dan Klerman, Statistical and Economic Approaches to Legal History (forthcoming in University of Illinois Law Review (2002)).
- 02-7 Edward J. McCaffery, Ann N. Crigler and Marion R. Just, A Tale of Two Democracies (forthcoming in Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospect of American Election Reform, Oxford University Press, 2003, reprinted with permission).
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