Table of Contents:
- Property law
- Definition, justification, and emergence of property rights
- Division of property rights
- Acquisition and transfer of property
- Conflict and cooperation in the use of property: the problem of externalities
- Public property
- Property rights in information
- Accident law
- Liability and deterrence: basic theory
- Liability and deterrence: firms
- Extensions of the analysis of deterrence
- Liability, risk-bearing, and insurance
- Liability and administrative costs
- Contract law
- Overview of contracts
- Contract formation
- Production contracts
- Other types of contract
- Litigation and the legal process
- Basic theory of litigation
- Extensions of the basic theory
- General topics on the legal process
- Public law enforcement and criminal law
- Deterrence with monetary sanctions
- Deterrence with nonmonetary sanctions
- Extensions of the theory of deterrence
- Incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution
- Criminal law
- General structure of the law
- The general structure of the law and its optimality
- Welfare economics, morality and the law
- Welfare economics and morality
- Implications for the analysis of law
- Income distributional equity and the law.
