2026
2026
JAIR
With Atrisha Sarkar
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research Vol. 85
2026
Knight Institute
With Dylan Hadfield-Menell and Rakshit Trivedi
Knight First Amendment Institute
2026
NBER
With Andrew Koh
The NBER Handbook on the Economics of Transformative AI, Ajay K. Agrawal, Erik Brynjolfsson and Anton Korinek (eds.)
2026
FAccT
With Karolina Stańczak, Nicholas Meade, Mehar Bhatia, Hattie Zhou, Konstantin Böttinger, Jeremy Barnes, Jason Stanley, Jessica Montgomery, Richard Zemel, Nicolas Papernot, Nicolas Chapados, Denis Therien, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Ana Marasović, Sylvie Delacroix, and Siva Reddy
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)
2026
ICML
With Shuhui Zhu, Yue Lin, Shriya Kaistha, Wenhao Li, Baoxiang Wang, Hongyuan Zha, and Pascal Poupart
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
2026
Jurimetrics
With Jack Clark
Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology Vol. 65, pp. 195–240
2026
ICML Workshop
With Haotian Zong, Binze Li, Yufei Long, Sinyin Chang, and Jialong Wu
ICML EIML Workshop
2026
arXiv
With Noam Kolt, Nicholas Caputo, Jack Boeglin, Cullen O'Keefe, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Noah Feldman, Iason Gabriel, Lewis Hammond, Peter Henderson, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Seth Lazar, Anka Reuel, Kevin L. Wei, and Jonathan Zittrain
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2601.04175
2026
arXiv
With S. Kapoor, P. Kirgis, A. Schwartz, S. Rabanser, J. J. Allaire, R. Bommasani, and others
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.20520
2025
2025
Wiley-Blackwell
In Sven Nyholm, John Zerilli and Atoosa Kasirzadeh (eds.)
Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell
2025
Phil Trans B
With Danson Mwangi, Samir Reynolds, and Sarah Mathew
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380: 20240260
2025
TMLR
With Markus Anderljung, Alan Chan, Sihao Huang, Seth Lazar, Elija Perrier, Nitarshan Rajkumar, and Kevin Wei
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (05/2025)
2025
Book Chapter
Revisiting the Many Institutions that Support Contractual Commitments in a Globalized World
With Alexander Bernier
Handbook of New Institutional Economics (Second Edition)
2025
Nature Human Behaviour
With Christopher Summerfield, Lisa P. Argyle, Michiel Bakker, Teddy Collins, Esin Durmus, Tyna Eloundou, Iason Gabriel, Deep Ganguli, Kobi Hackenburg, Luke Hewitt, Saffron Huang, Hélène Landemore, Nahema Marchal, Aviv Ovadya, Ariel Procaccia, Mathias Risse, Bruce Schneier, Elizabeth Seger, Divya Siddarth, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Michael Henry Tessler, and Matthew Botvinick
Nature Human Behaviour DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02309-z
2025
ICML Workshop
With Andrea Wynn and Harsh Satija
ICML MAS Workshop
2025
ICLR Workshop
With Karolina Stańczak, Nicholas Meade, Mehar Bhatia, Hattie Zhou, Konstantin Böttinger, Jeremy Barnes, Jason Stanley, Jessica Montgomery, Richard Zemel, Nicolas Papernot, Nicolas Chapados, Denis Therien, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Ana Marasović, Sylvie Delacroix, and Siva Reddy
International Conference on Learning Representations (Bi-Align Workshop)
2025
arXiv
With Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, and others
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2502.14143
2025
arXiv
With Andrew Koh
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2509.01063
2024
2024
AIES
With Noam Kolt, Markus Anderljung, Joslyn Barnhart, Asher Brass, Kevin Esvelt, Lennart Heim, Mikel Rodriguez, Jonas B. Sandbrink, and Thomas Woodside
Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics (AIES 2024)
2024
Science
With Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Yao, Dawn Song, Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Yuval Noah Harari, and others
Science 384, 842–845
2024
Science
With Michael K. Cohen, Noam Kolt, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell
Science Vol. 384, pp. 36–38
2024
ICML Workshop
With Rakshit Trivedi, Atrisha Sarkar, Shuhui Zhu, Nikhil Chandak, Joel Leibo, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell
International Conference on Machine Learning, Agentic Markets Workshop
2024
Report
With Elliot McKernon, Gwynn Glasser, and Deric Cheng
Convergence Analysis
2024
Report
With Maggie Arai, Ashley Casovan, Var Shankar, Jayant Narayan, Ron Bodkin, Cathy Cobey, Yvonne Zhu, Phil Dawson, Jesslyn Dymond, Lindsay Green-Noble, Gemma Galdon Clavell, Heidy Khlaaf, Brent Mittelstadt, Alexander Scott, Dominique Payette, Alexey Rubtsov, Julia Stoyanovich, and Craig Shank
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
2024
arXiv
With Girish Sastry, Lennart Heim, Haydn Belfield, Markus Anderljung, Miles Brundage, Julian Hazell, Cullen O'Keefe, Richard Ngo, Konstantin Pilz, and others
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
2024
arXiv
With Atrisha Sarkar, Andrei Muresanu, Carter Blair, Ankur Sharma, and Rakshit Trivedi
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2405.19328
2023
2023
Science Advances
With Aparna Balagopalan, David Madras, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, and Marzyeh Ghassemi
Science Advances Vol. 9
2023
Microsoft
Microsoft Anthology
2023
CIFAR
With Jamie Sandhu and Noam Kolt
CIFAR
2023
arXiv
With Lewis Ho, Joslyn Barnhart, Robert Trager, Yoshua Bengio, Miles Brundage, Allison Carnegie, Rumman Chowdhury, Allan Dafoe, Margaret Levi, and Duncan Snidal
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2307.04699
2023
arXiv
With Markus Anderljung, Joslyn Barnhart, Jade Leung, Anton Korinek, Cullen O'Keefe, Jess Whittlestone, Shahar Avin, Miles Brundage, and others
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2307.03718
2023
arXiv
With Jack Clark
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2304.04914
2022
2022
CACM
With Vincent Conitzer and Shannon Vallor
Communications of the ACM Vol. 66, p. 100
2022
PNAS
With Raphael Koster, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Richard Everett, Laura Weidinger, and Joel Z. Leibo
PNAS Vol. 119, 1–11
2022
JEL
Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 60, pp. 1264–1315
2022
Report
With Pamela Mishkin, Sam Manning, Tyna Eloundou, and Emily Eisner
OpenAI
2022
Stanford
With Michael L. Littman, Ifeoma Ajunwa, Finale Doshi-Velez, and others
Stanford University, One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
2021
2021
Book Chapter
A Positive Theory of the Rule of Law
With Jens Meierhenrich and Barry R. Weingast
In Meierhenrich, J. and Loughlin, M. The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press), pp. 237–258
2021
Nature
With Allan Dafoe, Yoram Bachrach, Eric Horvitz, Kate Larson, and Thore Graepel
Nature Vol. 593, pp. 33–36
2021
Audiobook
Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy
Audible, audiobook edition
2020
2020
Paperback
Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy
Oxford University Press, paperback edition with new Foreword
2020
arXiv
With Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, and 50+ others
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2004.07213
2019
2019
Essay
Towards Effective Value Alignment in AI: From "Should" to "How"
In AI Governance in 2019 — A Year in Review: Observations from 50 Global Experts, Shanghai Institute for Science of Science, pp. 19–20
2019
Fordham
Striking a Match, Not a Pose, for Access to Justice
Fordham Law Review Online pp. 160–161
2019
AIES
With Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society (2019), pp. 417–422
2019
AIES
With Dylan Hadfield-Menell and McKane Andrus
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society (AIES 2019), pp. 115–121
2019
Daedalus
More Markets, More Justice
Daedalus Vol. 148, pp. 37–48
2019
arXiv
With Amanda Askell and Miles Brundage
arXiv preprint, arXiv:1907.04534
2019
Report
Liberating Health Data: Implications for Law, Technology and Patient Outcomes
With Jovana Jankovic, Dan Ryan, and Jamison Steeve
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
2019
Report
Governance Innovation
With Shauna Brail and Janice Stein
Schwartz Reisman Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and School of Cities
2018
2018
U Chicago
What's Different About Law? A Response to Omri Ben-Shahar, "The Paradox of Access Justice, and Its Application to Mandatory Arbitration"
University of Chicago Law Review Online Vol. 86:19, pp. 19–33
2018
Book Chapter
Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?
With Barry Weingast
In Jack Knight and Melissa Schwartz (eds.) Privatization: NOMOS LX, NYU Press
2017
2017
Law & Social Inquiry
The Problem of Social Order: What Should We Count as Law?
Journal of Law and Social Inquiry Vol. 41, pp. 16–27
2017
Book
Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy
Oxford University Press
2016
2016
Wisconsin Law Review
Scaffolding: Using Formal Contracts to Build Informal Relations to Support Innovation
With Iva Bozovic
Wisconsin Law Review Vol. 2016, pp. 981–1032
2016
Hastings Law Journal
How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation, and the Quality of Lawyering
With Deborah Rhode
Hastings Law Journal Vol. 67, pp. 1191–1223
2016
Book Chapter
Life in the Law-Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans
With Jamie Heine
In S. Estreicher and J. Radice (eds.) Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Cambridge University Press)
2015
2015
J Legal Analysis
Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens
With Federica Carugati and Barry Weingast
Journal of Legal Analysis Vol. 7, pp. 291–324
2014
2014
Annual Review
Microfoundations of the Rule of Law
With Barry Weingast
Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 17, pp. 21–42
2014
Book Chapter
Constitutions as Coordinating Devices
With Barry Weingast
In S. Galiani and I. Sened (eds.) Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North (Cambridge University Press)
2014
Daedalus
Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets
Daedalus Vol. 143, pp. 83–95
2014
IRLE
The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un)Corporate Practice of Law
International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 38, pp. 43–63
2013
2013
JEL
Review of The Economics of International Law by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes
Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 51, pp. 897–900
2013
European J Sociology
Democracy, Courts and the Information Order
With Dan Ryan
European Journal of Sociology Vol. 54, pp. 67–95
2013
J Law & Courts
Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment
With Barry Weingast
Journal of Law and Courts Vol. 1, pp. 3–34
2012
2012
Book Chapter
Attorney-Client Confidentiality
With Shmuel Leshem
In C. Sanchirico (ed.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2nd Ed.), Vol. 8: Procedural Law and Economics (Edward Elgar)
2012
Law & Ethics HR
Rational Reasonableness: Toward a Positive Theory of Public Reason
With Stephen Macedo
The Law & Ethics of Human Rights Vol. 6, pp. 7–46
2012
J Legal Analysis
What is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order
With Barry Weingast
Journal of Legal Analysis Vol. 4, pp. 471–514
2012
I/S Journal
Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy
I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society Vol. 8, pp. 1–59
2012
Book Chapter
The Numbers Don't Lie: Why It's Time for Lawyers and Judges to Reduce the Regulatory Barriers to the Provision of Legal Help
In Liman at Fifteen: Accessing Justice, Rationing Law (Yale Law School), pp. 26–28
2011
2011
JEBO
The Dynamic Quality of Law: Judicial Incentives, Legal Human Capital and the Adaptation of Law
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vol. 79, pp. 80–94
2011
Maryland Law Review
Equipping the Garage Guys in Law
Maryland Law Review Vol. 70, pp. 484–498
2011
Book Chapter
Producing Law for Innovation
In R. Litan et al. (eds.) Rules for Growth
2011
Book
Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform
With R. Litan et al. (The Kauffman Foundation Task Force on Law, Innovation and Growth)
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2010
2010
Fordham
Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans
Fordham Urban Law Journal Vol. 37, pp. 129–156
2009
2009
Book Chapter
The Public and the Private in the Provision of Law for Global Transactions
In Volkmar Gessner (ed.) Contractual Certainty in International Trade (Oxford: Hart Publishing)
2009
Book Chapter
The Role of International Law Firms and Multijural Human Capital in the Harmonization of Legal Regimes
In Albert Breton et al. (eds.) Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences (Ashgate Publishing)
2009
Annals of IM
Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform
With Kenneth Arrow, Alan Auerbach, et al.
Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 150, Issue 7, pp. 493–495
2009
U Toronto LJ
The Strategy of Methodology: The Virtues of Reductionism for Comparative Law
University of Toronto Law Journal Vol. LIX, No. 2, pp. 223–235
2008
2008
Stanford Law Review
Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control over Corporate Legal Markets
Stanford Law Review Vol. 60, pp. 1689–1732
2008
Law & Society Review
Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
Law & Society Review Vol. 42, pp. 645–682
2008
J Comparative Econ
The Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law
Journal of Comparative Economics Vol. 36, pp. 43–73
2007
2007
DePaul Law Review
Don't Forget the Lawyers: Legal Human Capital and the Role of Lawyers in Supporting the Rule of Law
DePaul Law Review Vol. 55, pp. 401–421
2006
2006
JLEO
On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law
With Eric Talley
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization Vol. 22, pp. 414–441
2006
J Law & Policy
Judging Science: An Essay on the Unscientific Basis of Beliefs about the Impact of Law on Science and the Need for Better Data about Law
Journal of Law and Policy Vol. 14, pp. 137–163
2005
2005
Stanford Law Review
Exploring Economic and Democratic Theories of Litigation: Differences between Individual and Organizational Litigants in the Disposition of Federal Civil Cases
Stanford Law Review Vol. 57, pp. 1275–1327
2005
Annual Review
Feminism, Fairness and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law and Economics
Annual Review of Law and Social Science Vol. 1, pp. 285–306
2005
Book Chapter
The Many Legal Institutions that Support Contractual Commitment
In Claude Menard and Mary Shirley (eds.) Handbook of New Institutional Economics (Kluwer), pp. 175–203
2005
DRI
The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: "An Unprecedented Experiment in American Democracy"
The Future of Terrorism Risk Insurance, Defense Research Institute
2004
2004
JELS
Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Non-trial Adjudications and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 1, pp. 705–734
2004
ALER
Delivering Legality on the Internet: Developing Principles for the Private Provision of Commercial Law
American Law and Economics Review Vol. 6, pp. 154–184
2002
2002
JSEBL
Privatizing Commercial Law: Lessons from ICANN
Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law Vol. 6, pp. 257–283
2001
2001
Regulation
Privatizing Commercial Law
Regulation Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 40–45
2000
2000
Book Chapter
Changing the Path of the Law
In Steven J. Burton (ed.) The Path of the Law and Its Influence: The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Cambridge University Press), pp. 278–284
2000
Michigan Law Review
The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System
Michigan Law Review Vol. 98, pp. 953–1006
1999
1999
JEBO
A Coordination Model of the Sexual Division of Labor
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vol. 40, pp. 125–153
1999
SC Interdisc LJ
Of Sovereignty and Contract: Damages for Breach of Contract by Government
Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Vol. 8, pp. 467–537
1999
Book
The Second Wave of Law and Economics
With Megan Richardson
Federation Press, Annandale, Australia
1998
1998
J Consumer Policy
An Information-Based Approach to Labeling Biotechnology Consumer Products
With David Thomson
Journal of Consumer Policy Vol. 21, pp. 551–578
1998
J Consumer Policy
Information-Based Principles for Rethinking Consumer Protection Policy
With Robert Howse and Michael Trebilcock
Journal of Consumer Policy Vol. 21, pp. 131–169
1998
Palgrave
Law-and-Economics from a Feminist Perspective
In Peter Newman (ed.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law Vol. 2, pp. 455–459
1998
Palgrave
Sexual Harassment
In Peter Newman (ed.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law Vol. 3, pp. 455–458
1998
U Penn Law Review
An Expressive Theory of Contract: From Feminist Dilemmas to a Reconceptualization of Rational Choice in Contract Law
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Vol. 146, pp. 1235–1285
1998
U Toronto LJ
Review of Margaret Jane Radin, Contested Commodities: The Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts and Other Things
University of Toronto Law Journal Vol. 48, pp. 151–155
1997
1997
Can Bus LJ
An Incomplete Contracting Perspective on Fiduciary Duty
Canadian Business Law Journal Vol. 28, pp. 141–154
1996
1996
U Toronto LJ
The Second Wave of Law and Economics: A Review of Michael Trebilcock's The Limits of Freedom of Contract
University of Toronto Law Journal Vol. 46, pp. 181–200
1996
California Law Review
Rational Women: A Test for Sex-Based Harassment
California Law Review Vol. 83, pp. 1151–1189
1995
1995
Book Chapter
Just Borders: Normative Economics and Immigration Law
In Warren Schwartz (ed.) Justice in Immigration (Cambridge University Press), pp. 201–211
1995
Osgoode Hall LJ
The Dilemma of Choice: A Feminist Perspective on The Limits of Freedom of Contract
Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol. 33, pp. 337–351
1994
1994
Georgetown LJ
Households at Work: Beyond Labor Market Policies to Remedy the Gender Gap
Georgetown Law Journal Vol. 82, pp. 89–107
1994
California Law Review
Weighing the Value of Vagueness: An Economic Perspective on Precision in the Law
California Law Review Vol. 82, pp. 541–554
1994
J Legal Studies
Judicial Competence and the Interpretation of Incomplete Contracts
Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 23, pp. 159–184
1993
1993
Connecticut Law Review
Not the "Radical" Feminist Critique of Sex and Reason
Connecticut Law Review Vol. 25, pp. 533–546
1992
1992
ASCAP
The Economics of Copyright: An Historical Perspective
ASCAP Copyright Law Symposium No. 38, pp. 1–46
1992
IRLE
Incomplete Contracts and Statutes
International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 12, pp. 257–259
1992
Harvard Law Review
Flirting with Science: Richard Posner on the Bioeconomics of Sexual Man
Harvard Law Review Vol. 106, pp. 479–503
1992
Georgetown LJ
Bias in the Evolution of Legal Rules
Georgetown Law Journal Vol. 80, pp. 583–616
1991
1991
RAND J Economics
Credible Spatial Preemption through Franchising
RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 22, pp. 531–543
1990
1990
Stanford Law Review
Problematic Relations: Franchising and the Law of Incomplete Contracts
Stanford Law Review Vol. 42, pp. 927–992