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Books
Between State and Market: Essays on Charities Law and Public Policy in Canada (Co-editor with J. Phillips and D. Stevens, and contributor, Toronto: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001).
Justice, Rights and Tort Law (Co editor with M.D. Bayles, and contributor, Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1983).
Articles
"Moral Consensus, Rights, and Efficiency in the Economic Analysis of Law" 40 (1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2020) 1 - 27
“Incommensurability, Proportionality, and Defeasibility” 12 Law, Probability, and Risk (2013) 259 - 74.
"Defeasible Rules and Interpersonal Accountability” in J. Ferrer & G.B. Ratti (eds.) The Logic of Legal Requirements: Essays on Defeasibility (Oxford University Press 2012).
"Ernie's Three Worlds" (2011) 61 University of Toronto Law Journal 179-90.
"Rational Association and Corporate Responsibility" in Lorenzo Sacconi et al eds., Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance (Palgrave, International Economic Association, 2011) 272 - 95.
"Preference, Pluralism, and Proportionality" (2010) 60 University of Toronto Law Journal 177-196.
"Leading You Down the Choice Path: Persuasion as Collective Rationality" (2009) 35 Queen's Law Journal 327-358.
"Allocating the Risk of Subjectivity: Intention, Consent, and Insurance" (2007) 57 University of Toronto Law Journal 315-330.
"Rational Choice and Reasonable Interactions" (2006) 81 Chicago-Kent Law Review 75-93.
"Rational Commitment and Legal Reason" (2005) 42 San Diego Law Review 91-127.
"Common Knowledge, Communication, and Public Reason" (2004) 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1151-1185.
"Private Rationality and Public Reasonableness: The Rational Interactor in Game Theory and the Law" (Spring 2004) 3(2) American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 8-14.
"Legal Analysis of Economics: Solving the Problem of Rational Commitment" (2004) 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 471-95.
"Rational Choice and Categorical Reason" (2003) 151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1169-1210.
"Aggregating Reasons" 3 Revista Argentina de Teoria Juridica (July 2002). (Translated into Spanish as "Agregación de Razones" in the same volume.)
"Rational Aggregation" (2002) 1 Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 337-354.
"Pluralism in Tort and Accident Law: Towards a Reasonable Accommodation" in G. Postema, ed. Philosophy and the Law of Torts (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) 276-321.
"Rational Voluntarism and the Charitable Sector" in J. Phillips, B. Chapman and D. Stevens, eds. Between State and Market: Essays on Charities Law and Policy in Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2001) 127-165.
"Public Reason, Social Choice, and Co-operation" in Johan van Benthem, ed. Rationality and Knowledge (Proceedings of the Eighth Annual TARK Conference 2001) (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2001) 319-332.
"Responsibility and Fault as Legal Concepts" (2001) 12 King’s College Law Journal 212-220.
"Rationally Transparent Social Interactions" in M. Streit, Uwe Mummert, and Daniel Kiwit, eds. Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions (Berlin: Springer 2000) 189-204.
"Chance, Reason, and the Rule of Law" (2000) 50 University of Toronto Law Journal 469-492.
"Economics" in Christopher B. Gray ed., The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopaedia (New York: Garland Publishing 1999) 244-246.
"De Prijs van Pensioen" [Dutch translation and republication of an earlier article "Sex Discrimination and the Equal Good of Pensions" in P. Newman, ed. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (London: MacMillan Press, 1998) 451.] in (July/August 1999) Nemesis 101.
"Sex Discrimination and the Equal Good of Pensions" in P.Newman, ed. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (London: MacMillan Press, 1998) 451.
"More Easily Done than Said: Rules, Reasons, and Rational Social Choice" (1998) 18 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 293. (view abstract)
"Law, Incommensurability, and Conceptually Sequenced Argument" (1998) 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1487.
"Between Markets and Politics: A Social Choice Theoretic Appreciation of the Charitable Sector" (1998) 6 George Mason Law Review 821.
"Law Games: Defeasible Rules and Revisable Rationality" (1998) 17 Law and Philosophy 443.
"Corporate Stakeholders, Choice Procedures, and Committees" (1996) 26 Can. Bus. L. J. 211.
"Corporate Tort Liability and the Problem of Overcompliance" (1996) 69 Southern California Law Review 1679.
"Wrongdoing, Welfare and Damages: Corrective Justice and the Right to Recover for Non-Pecuniary Loss" in D. Owen, ed. Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford University Press, 1995) 409.
"Developments in Tort Law: The 1993-94 Term" (1995) 6 (2d) Supreme Court L. R. 487.
"Commentary" (on "The Governance of Non-Profits" by Ronald Hirshhorn) Corporate Decisionmaking in Canada: Conference Proceedings (Ottawa: Industry Canada, 1995) 628.
"The Rational and the Reasonable: Social Choice Theory and Adjudication" (1994) 61 U. Chicago L. Rev. 41.
"Tort Law Reasoning and the Achievement of Good" in K. Cooper-Stephenson and E. Gibson eds Tort Theory (Downsview, Ontario: Captus University Publications, 1993) 73.
"Rational Environmental Choice: Lessons for Economics from Law and Ethics" (1993) 6 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 63.
"Trust, Economic Rationality, and the Corporate Fiduciary Obligation" (1993) 43 University of Toronto Law Journal 547.
"Limited Auditors' Liability: Economic Analysis and the Theory of Tort Law" (1992) 20 Can. Bus. L.J. 180.
"Making Hard Social Choices: Lessons from the Automobile Accident Compensation Debate", with Michael Trebilcock, (1992) 44 Rutgers Law Review 797.
"Controlling the Costs of Medical Malpractice: The Case for Strict Hospital Liability" (1990) 28 Osgoode Hall L. J. 523.
"Punitive Damages As Aggravated Damages: The Case of Contract" (1990) 16 Canadian Business Law Journal 269.
"Punitive Damages: Divergence in Search of a Rationale", with M.J. Trebilcock, (1989) 40 Alabama L.R. 741. Reprinted in part in Contracts, R. Craswell and A. Schwartz eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
"Agency and Contingency: the Case of Criminal Attempts" (1988) 38 University of Toronto Law Journal 355.
"A Theory of Criminal Law Excuses" (1988) 1 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 75.
"Pensions, Sex Discrimination, and the Value of Life After Death" (1987) 7(2) Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 193.
"Criminal Law Liability and Fundamental Justice: Towards a Theory of Substantive Judicial Review" (1986) 44(2) U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 153.
"Prude, Prostitute, Pimp, and Pareto", with Janet Landa, (1985) Philosophy 523.
"Raising Johnny To Be Good: A Problematic Case for Economic Analysis of Law" (1984) 34 University of Toronto Law Journal 358.
"Values in the Law of Tort: A Symposium", Co edited with M.D. Bayles (December 1982) 1(3) and (April 1983) 2(1) Law and Philosophy.
"Rights As Constraints: Nozick versus Sen" (1983) 15 Theory and Decision 1.
"Introduction" (with M.D. Bayles) in Justice, Rights and Tort Law, Bayles and Chapman eds. (Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1983) 1.
"Individual Rights, Good Consequences, and the Theory of Social Choice" (1982) 12 Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 317.
"Efficiency, Liberty and Equality: Three Ethical Justifications for Regulatory Reform", with J.J. Quinn(1982) 20 Osgoode Hall L. J. 512.
"Ethical Issues in the Law of Tort" (May 1982) 20 University of Western Ontario Law Review 1. Reprinted in Justice, Rights and Tort Law, M.D. Bayles and B. Chapman, eds. (Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1983).
"Buying Convictions," (1982) 1 Westminster Institute Review 12.
"Individual Rights and Collective Rationality: Some Implications for Economic Analysis of Law" (1982) 10 Hofstra Law Review 455.
"Law, Morality and the Logic of Choice: An Economist's View" (1979) 29 University of Toronto Law Journal 114.
Book Reviews (untitled)
Behavioral Law and Economics, edited by Cass Sunstein, 32 Journal of Socio-Economics (2004).
The Nonprofit Sector in the Mixed Economy edited by A. Ben. Ner and B. Gui (1995) 12 The Philanthropist 63.
The Economic Structure of Corporate Law by Frank H. Easterbrook and Daniel R. Fischel (1994) 23 Canadian Business Law Journal 145.
Ethical Issues in Government, N. Bowie ed. and Ethics in Government by P. French (1984) 7(2) Teaching Philosophy 178.
Tyranny and Legitimacy by James Fishkin (1983) 33 University of Toronto Law Journal 140.
Tragic Choices by Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobitt (1979) 29 University of Toronto Law Journal 29 182.
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