Instructor: Robin D. Hanson, Associate Professor, Economics (rhanson@gmu.edu, http://robinhanson.com)
Office Hours: Officially Monday 5:00-7:00p. But I'm usually in at Carow Hall 10A. Call ahead (703-993-2326) if you want to be sure.

Catalog Entry:

Econ 840 Law and Economics I. Prerequisite: ECON 611 or 811 or permission of instructor. Uses economics to analyze U.S. Common-law system, evaluating efficiency and logic of evolution.

Steven Shavell, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law, Harvard University Press, 2004, ISBN 0674011554

David D. Friedman, Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, Princeton Univ. Press 2000, ISBN 0691090092.

Robert Cooter and Thomas Ulen, Law and Economics, Sixth Edition, Addison Wesley 2012, ISBN 0132540711. author web notes

Thomas Miceli, The Economic Approach to Law, Second Edition, Stanford University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780804756709

This is the first time I'm teaching this class, so I'll be figuring it out as I go along. Expect me to change my mind about lots of things.

• Class Participation Please contribute to class discussions.
• Exams There is Midterm that takes the whole class period Oct. 15, and final exam Dec. 16. Exams are open book, open notes.
• Research Paper Once you are a grad student your main task is to write papers. No one will care later what grades you get in any of your grad courses, but they will care what papers you write. Due Dec 16.

Week	Text Chapters	Lecture Topics
26 Aug	S1-3	Intro, Property
2 Sept		No Class
9 Sept	S4-7	Property
16 Sept	S8-10	Accident
23 Sept	S11-12	Accident
30 Sept	S13-14	Contract
7 Oct	S15-16	Contract
15 Oct		Midterm Note class on Tuesday
21 Oct	S17-19	Legal Process
28 Oct	S20-22	Crime
4 Nov	S23-24	Crime
11 Nov	S25-29	Structure, Welfare
18 Nov		Private Law
25 Nov		Future Law
2 Dec		Review, Slack
16 Dec		Final Exam, 7:30 -10:15pm.

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