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Congrats to researchers Eric Posner & shivam.saran for making the Top 10 AI in Law papers list!

Hajin Kim's new study challenges the anti-commodification critique of market-based regulations. 🌍 It finds that such policies don’t reduce the moral stigma of pollution—they have little effect overall, and when evaluating the perceived morality of companies polluting in

🏛️ Capitol Hill spotlight: Dr. Richard Sandor — our institute’s namesake — testified before the House Committee on Agriculture last month on “The CFTC at 50: Examining the Past and Future of Commodity Markets." law.uchicago.edu/news/lecturer-…

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.Adam Chilton has been appointed dean of the UChicago Law, effective July 1. “I strongly believe that the University of Chicago Law School is the world’s most academically outstanding and rigorous law school, and it is an extraordinary honor to lead it.” buff.ly/Vanal2y

What if we considered court rescheduling as a collective action problem? "StubHub for Courts? Technology, Markets, and New Solutions to Court Congestion" applies a market-based theoretical framework to help understand, reform, and redesign the civil procedure system. Read it

New data, new insights: Our research affiliates assembled three novel datasets to study how state-level occupational licensing can create a trade-off between the supply and quality of professionals in an industry.

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What drives healthcare fraud—and what deters it? In The Economics of Healthcare Fraud, Anup Malani and Jetson Leder-Luis offer a new economic definition and explore the incentives behind fraud and its prosecution. 📄 Read the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The 2025 Political Economy & Public Law conference covered #research on an array of topics- from disclosure rules to Congressional oversight committees to small business-favoring provisions to executive orders. Thank you to all who made this event such a success!

🚨 Posner & Zheng examine the Silicon Valley no-poach cartel: the conspiracy of tech firms that agreed not to recruit from each other—suppressing pay across the sector. Though the case settled, it quietly reshaped labor antitrust. Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🔍 Vince Buccola & Dave Hoffman ask: Why do top deal lawyers negotiate the way they do? A new article introduces the concept of “precedent terms”—contract provisions that don’t affect price but shape how deals evolve. 📄 These terms: Vary across contracts, Anchor on past deals & Drive

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🔍 Bankruptcy Minimalism by Douglas Baird In Butner v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed that bankruptcy law should presumptively respect state-defined property rights. In the 1980s, scholars beginning with Thomas Jackson argued that for this reason the bankruptcy