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Warren F. Schwartz

Professor Emeritus

A.B., Brooklyn; LL.B., Columbia

Professor Schwartz has applied economic analysis to a variety of subjects, including the convention of dueling, the meaning of the term "the reasonable man" (person)...

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Professor Schwartz has applied economic analysis to a variety of subjects, including the convention of dueling, the meaning of the term "the reasonable man" (person) in tort law, the most favored nation principle in the GATT and decision-making by juries. He has also lectured on law and economics at various research and educational institutions in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Australia and Asia.

Recent Scholarship

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Edward Schwartz, Simple Majority Rule For Criminal Jury Trials: The Verdict is Now In, Legal Theory (forthcoming).   

Books

  • Warren F. Schwartz, Justice in Immigration (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press pbk. ed. 2007).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Abraham L. Wickelgren, Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Makes Negative-Expected-Value Defenses but Not Negative-Expected-Value Suits Credible, 38 J. Legal Stud. 235-253 (2009).    [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz & Abraham L. Wickelgren, Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits, 40 RAND J. Econ. 636-657 (2009).    [W]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Alan O. Sykes, The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization, in The WTO and International Trade Law/Dispute Settlement 52-77 (Petros C. Mavroidis & Alan O. Sykes eds., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2005).    [BOOK]

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Edward Schwartz, Simple Majority Rule For Criminal Jury Trials: The Verdict is Now In, Legal Theory (forthcoming).   

Books

  • Warren F. Schwartz, Justice in Immigration (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press pbk. ed. 2007).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Abraham L. Wickelgren, Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Makes Negative-Expected-Value Defenses but Not Negative-Expected-Value Suits Credible, 38 J. Legal Stud. 235-253 (2009).    [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz & Abraham L. Wickelgren, Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits, 40 RAND J. Econ. 636-657 (2009).    [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz & Richard R.W. Brooks, Legal Uncertainty, Economic Efficiency, and the Preliminary Injunction Doctrine, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 381-409 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz, The Positive and Normative Puzzle of Decision Rules For Juries: The Example of Decision Rules For Civil Litigation in State Courts, 34 Hofstra L. Rev. 345-349 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz, Can Suits With Negative Expected Value Really Be Profitable?, 9 Legal Theory 83-97 (2003).   
  • Warren F. Schwartz, Introduction to the Symposium, 36 Ind. L. Rev. 229-235 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz & Edward P. Schwartz, And So Say Some of Us: What to Do When Jurors Disagree, 9 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 429-463 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz & Alan O. Sykes, The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization, 31 J. Legal Stud. S179-S204 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Warren F. Schwartz, Long Shot Class Actions: Toward a Normative Theory of Legal Uncertainty, 8 Legal Theory 297-311 (2002).   

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Warren F. Schwartz & Alan O. Sykes, The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization, in The WTO and International Trade Law/Dispute Settlement 52-77 (Petros C. Mavroidis & Alan O. Sykes eds., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2005).    [BOOK]
  • Warren F. Schwartz, Lloyd Granet & Charles A. Goetz, The Meaning of "Subsidy" and "Injury" in the Countervailing Duty Law, in International Trade Law 189-204 (Ronald A. Cass & Michael S. Knoll eds., Aldershot/Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate/Dartmouth 2003).    [BOOK]

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