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Peter Siegelman - Scholarship

Book Chapters

• The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: An Empirical Examination, in Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities (Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert Nelson, eds. 2005) (with John Donohue).
• Race and Radio: Preference Externalities, Minority Ownership, and the Underprovision of Programming to Black and Hispanic Listeners, Chapter 4 in Advertising and Differentiated Products (Michael R. Baye and Jon P. Nelson, eds. 2001) (with Joel Waldfogel).
• Racial Discrimination in "Everyday" Commercial Transactions: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and How Can We Find Out?, in A National Report Card on Discrimination in America: The Role of Testing (Michael Fix and Margery Tuner, eds.) (1999).
• The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods and Findings, in Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America 187 (Michael Fix and Raymond Struyk, eds. 1993) (with James Heckman).

Journal Articles

• Witness vs Expectation: A Defense of Wilful Breach Doctrine, forth. __ Mich L. Rev. __ (2008) (with Steve Thel).
• Contributory Disparate Impacts in Employment Discrimination Law, 49 William and Mary Law Review 515 (2007).
• Of Equal Rights and Half Wrongs, 82 NYU L. Rev. 101 (2007). (with Gideon Parchomovsky and Steve Thel).
• Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: An Exaggerated Threat, 113 Yale Law Journal 1223 (2004).
• Selling Mayberry: Communities and Individuals in Law and Economics, 92 California Law Review 75 (2004) [with Gideon Parchomovsky].
• A New Old Look at Terrorism Insurance: Jack Hirschleifer's War Damage Insurance After Fifty Years, [Essay on War Damages Insurance by Jack Hirshleifer 35 Review of Economic and Statistic 144 (1953)], 9 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 19 (2002).
• Towards an Integrated Theory of Intellectual Property, 88 Virginia Law Review 102 (2002) [with Gideon Parchomovsky].
• James Heckman as a Law and Society Scholar: An Outsider's Appreciation, 27 Law and Social Inquiry 11 (2002).
• Toward a Taxonomy of Disputes: New Evidence Through the Prism of the Priest/Klein Model, 28 Journal of Legal Studies 101 (1999) [with Joel Waldfogel].
• Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle Against Crime, 27 Journal of Legal Studies 1 (1998) [with John Donohue].
• The Q-Word as Red Herring: Why Disparate Impact Liability Does Not Induce Hiring Quotas, 74 Texas Law Review 1487 (1996) [with Ian Ayres].
• The Problems of Lustration: Prosecution of Wrongdoers by Democratic Successor Regimes, 20 Law and Society Inquiry (1995) (Symposium Editor).
• The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects to Test the Priest/Klein Hypothesis, 24 Journal of Legal Studies 427 (1995) [with John Donohue].
• Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car, 85 American Economic Review 304 (1995) [with Ian Ayres]
• Shaky Grounds: The Case Against the Case Against Antidiscrimination Laws, 19 Law and Society Inquiry 725 (1994) [review essay on Richard Epstein, Forbidden Grounds (1992)].
• Law and Macroeconomics: Employment Discrimination Litigation Over the Business Cycle, 66 Southern California Law Review 709 (1993) [with John Donohue].
• The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation, 43 Stanford Law Review 983 (1991). [with John Donohue]
• Studying the Iceberg From Its Tip? An Analysis of Differences Between Published and Unpublished Federal Employment Discrimination Cases, 241 Law and Society Review 1133 (1991) [with John Donohue].
• The Economics of the Insurance Anti-Trust Suits: Toward an Exclusionary Theory, 63 Tulane Law Review 971 (1989) [with Ian Ayres]. Reprinted in 4 National Insurance Law Review 1 (1990) and in 4 Insurance Law Anthology 501 (1989-90).
• Neoclassical Difficulties: Tort As Deterrence for Latent Injuries, 11 Law and Policy 309 (1989) [with W.L.F. Felstiner]. Reprinted in Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risks 83 (James Short and Lee Clark, eds., 1992).

News & Other Articles

• A "Peace Dividend" Dream for the Middle East, L.A. Times, November 26, 2002 [with Gideon Parchomovsky].
• Congress Should OK Terrorism-Insurance Bill, Newsday, September 17, 2002 [with Tom Baker].
• Is the U.S. at the Optimal Rate of Crime? Allocating Resources Among Prisons, Police and Social Programs, American Bar Foundation Paper (1995) [with John Donohue].
• Another Look at Employment Discrimination Litigation: A Reply to Epp., American Bar Foundation Working Paper (1990).
• Insurers Win Battle, But War Continues, Legal Times, November 27, 1989.
• Protecting the Textile and Apparel Industries, Congressional Budget Office Staff Paper (1985) [with Daniel Kaplan].

Reviews

• Book Review, 33 Journal of Economic and Literature 244 (1995) (reviewing Farrell Bloch, Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment (1994)).
• Book Review, 95 American Journal of Sociology 1109 ( 1990) reviewing Charles Smith, Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (1989)).