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BOOKS
2022   An Analytical Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed.) (with Ronald J. Allen, et al.)

2021  Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (Oxford University Press) (co-edited with Christian Dahlman & Giovanni Tuzet)
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2016   An Analytical Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed., 2016) (with Ronald J. Allen, et al.)
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2005  Foundations of Evidence Law (Oxford University Press)
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2001  Tort Liability under Uncertainty (Oxford University Press) (co-authored with Ariel Porat)
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1992  Evidence and Proof, Volume XI in the International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory (New York University Press) (co-edited with William Twining)


ARTICLES

2022 Probabilism in Legal Interpretation, forthcoming in 107 Iowa Law Review 1389-1437 download

2022 Preliminary Damages, forthcoming, 75 Vanderbilt Law Review 239-276 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download
2021 Autonomy, 70 University of Toronto Law Journal 61-90 (with Gideon Parchomovsky)

2021 Introduction, in Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet, Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law 1-7 (Oxford University Press) 
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2021 Second-Personal Evidence, in Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet, Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law 96-106 (Oxford University Press) 
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2018 Law and the Epistemology of Disagreement, 96 Washington University Law Review 51-103  download
For podcast discussion of this article, click here.

2018 Expert Testimony and the Epistemology of Disagreement, 48 Seton Hall Law Review 1199-1208  download

2018 Behavioral Probability, in Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics 45-71 (Joshua C. Teitelbaum & Kathryn Zeiler, eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing) download
For videotaped presentation and discussion of this paper at the Rutgers University Philosophy Department, click here.

2017  The Domain of Torts, 117 Columbia Law Review 535-611 download

2017  Empowering Individual Plaintiffs, 102 Cornell Law Review 1319-1365 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2016  Abortion, Informed Consent, and Regulatory Spillover, 92 Indiana Law Journal 1-54 (with Kate Shaw) download

2016 Constitutional Retroactivity in Criminal Procedure, 91 Washington Law Review 463-514 (with Dov Fox) download

2016 Understanding Legal Redundancies, 94 Texas Law Review See Also 121-130 download
2015 The New Doctrinalism: Implications for Evidence Theory, 163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2085-2107 download

2015 Catalogs, 115 Columbia Law Review 165-209 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2015 Talking Points, 2015 University of Illinois Law Review 1259-1286 (with Jef De Mot) download

2015 Dualism and Doctrine, 90 Indiana Law Journal 975-1010 (with Dov Fox) download

2015 Inefficient Evidence, 66 Alabama Law Review 423-470 (2015) download

2013  Intellectual Property Defenses, 113 Columbia Law Review 1483-1542 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2013 Evidence, Probability, and the Burden of Proof, 55 Arizona Law Review 557-602 (with Ronald J. Allen) download

2013 Contra la “Prueba Libre,” 26 Revista de Derecho 245-61 (consolidated Spanish summary and translation of “Freedom of Proof” and “Refoundation of Evidence Law,” published by Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia) download

2013  Are People Probabilistically Challenged?  Book Review of Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, 111 Michigan Law Review 855-875 download

2012  The Relational Contingency of Rights, 98 Virginia Law Review 1313-1372 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download 

2012  Toward a Theory of Medical Malpractice, 97 Iowa Law Review 1201-1257 download

2012  Corrupt Intentions: Bribery, Unlawful Gratuity, and Honest-Services Fraud, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems 61-81 download

2012 Evidence, in Uriel Procaccia, ed., Economic Analysis of Law 1103-1132 (in Hebrew) (with Talia Fisher)

2011 Self-Incrimination, in Procedural Law and Economics 366-385 (Chris W. Sanchirico, volume ed., 2011) (Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Vol. X, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, Gerrit De Geest, gen. ed., 2nd ed. 2009-2011)  download

2011  The Flawed Probabilistic Foundation of Law & Economics, 105 Northwestern University Law Review 199-260  download

2011 Liability for Future Harms, in Richard S. Goldberg, ed., Perspectives on Causation 221-239 (Hart Publishing, Oxford) (with Ariel Porat) download

2011 Torts, Innovation, and Growth, in Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth through Legal Reform (Robert E. Litan, et al, Kauffman Foundation Press) 257-272 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2010  The Distortionary Effect of Evidence on Primary Behavior, 124 Harvard Law Review 518-548 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2010  Strategic Enforcement, 95 Minnesota Law Review 9-58 (with Margaret H. Lemos) download

2009  Originality, 95 Virginia Law Review 1505-1550 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2009  Reconceptualizing Trespass, 103 Northwestern University Law Review 1823-1863 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2008  On the Epistemic Authority of Courts, 5 Episteme 402-410 (special issue on Evidence & Law, edited by Frederick Schauer and Walter N. Sinnott-Armstrong) download  To get the published version of this article click HERE

2008 The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Response to Critics, 30 Cardozo Law Review 1115-1140 (Symposium on The Future of Self-Incrimination: Fifth Amendment, Confessions, and Guilty Pleas) download

2008  Torts and Innovation, 107 Michigan Law Review 285-315 (with Gideon Parchomovsky) download

2008  Constitutional Evidence Law, 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 65-124 download

2008  The Trial-Time/Forum Principle and the Nature of Evidence Rules, in Current Trends in Criminal Procedure and Evidence -- A Collection of Essays in Honor of Professor Eliahu Harnon 81-103 (Anat Horovitz & Mordechai Kremnitzer, eds.) download

2007  Deterrence, Retributivism, and the Law of Evidence, 93 Virginia Law Review in Brief 173-182 (2007) (with Richard A. Bierschbach) download

2007 Mediating Rules in Criminal Law, 93 Virginia Law Review 1197-1258 (with Richard A. Bierschbach) download

2007 A Liberal Challenge to Behavioral Economics: The Case of Probability, 2 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 531-540 (Symposium on Behavioral Law & Economics' Challenge to the Classical Liberal Program)  download

2006 Ambiguity Aversion and the Criminal Process, 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1495-1551 (with Uzi Segal)  download

2006  Healthcare Intermediaries, 29(4) Regulation 20-25  download

2005  Overenforcement, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1743-1781 (with Richard A. Bierschbach)  download
 
2004 Auctioning for Loyalty: Selection and Monitoring of Class Counsel, 22 Yale Law & Policy Review 69-124 (with Alon Harel)  download
 
2003 Indeterminate Causation and Apportionment of Damages: An Essay on Holtby, Allen and Fairchild, 23 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 667-702 (with Ariel Porat)  download
 
2001 Of Two Wrongs that Make a Right: Two Paradoxes of the Evidence Law and their Combined Economic Justification, 79 Texas Law Review 1199-1234  download

2000  The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege, 114 Harvard Law Review 430-510 (with Daniel J. Seidmann)  download

2000  How to Resolve the Indeterminate Causation Problem that Arises in Medical Malpractice Litigation, 23 Yiuney Mishpat  755-775 (Hebrew)
 
2000  Evidential Rules for Criminal Trials: Who Should be in Charge?, in Sean Doran & John Jackson, eds., The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings 127-143 (Hart Publishing, Oxford)
 
1999  The Evidential Damage Doctrine: A Response to Critique, 30 Mishpatim 349-376 (Hebrew) (with Ariel Porat)
 
1999  Israel, in Craig M. Bradley, Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study 217-244 (Carolina Academic Press) (with Eliahu Harnon)
 
1998  An Essay on Uncertainty and Fact-Finding in Civil Litigation, with Special Reference to Contract Cases, 48 University of Toronto Law Journal 299-351 download
 
1998  The Evidential Damage Doctrine: A Positive Analysis of the Law, 21 Yiuney Mishpat 191-258 (Hebrew) (with Ariel Porat)
 
1998   Theory and Fortuity in Judicial Reasoning, 29 Mishpatim 5-15 (Hebrew)
 
1997   Liability for Uncertainty: Making Evidential Damage Actionable, 18 Cardozo Law Review 1891-1960 (with Ariel Porat) download
 
1997   Bayesioskepticism Justified, 1 International Journal of Evidence & Proof 339-342 download
 
1997   Against Free Proof, 31 Israel Law Review 573-589  download
 
1996   The Refoundation of Evidence Law, 9 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 279-342  download
 
1996   Judicial Fact-Finding and the Bayesian Method: The Case for Deeper Scepticism About their Combination, 1 International Journal of Evidence & Proof 25-47 download
 
1996  Allocating the Burden of Proof in Sales Litigation: The Law, Its Rationale, A New Theory, And Its Failure, 50 University of Miami Law Review 335-344 download

1995  Probability and Proof in State v. Skipper: An Internet Exchange, 35 Jurimetrics Journal 277-310 (with Ronald J. Allen, et. al.)

1995  Symposium on Implied Hearsay  -  Discussion, 16 Mississippi College Law Review 93, 95, 106, 108, 193, 194
 
1995  The Form and Substance of the Hearsay Doctrine: A Response to Professor Seidelson, 16 Mississippi College Law Review 55-60
 
1995  The Bank-Client Evidentiary Privilege, 25 Mishpatim 45-85 (Hebrew)
 
1993 Reform Movements in Criminal Procedure and the Protection of Human Rights in Israel, 64 Revue Internationale de Droit Penal 1177-1192 (with Eliahu Harnon)
 
1993 Defending Liberal Law (reviewing Andrew Altman, Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique, Princeton University Press, 1990), 22 Anglo-American Law Review 194-220 download
 
1993  From Blackstone to Woolmington: On the Development of a Legal Doctrine, 14 Journal of Legal History 14-27  download
 
1993 The Admissibility of Out-of-Court Statements as Evidence in Criminal Trials: On the New Bill, New Ideas, and the Same Old Tenets, 10 Mechkarey Mishpat 157-181 (Hebrew)
 
1992  Hearsay Statements as Evidence in Criminal Trials: Is and Ought, 21 Mishpatim 325-351 (Hebrew)
 
1992 Introduction, in William Twining & Alex Stein, eds., Evidence and Proof, Volume XI in the International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory xv-xxx (New York University Press) (with William Twining)
 
1991 After HUNT: The Burden of Proof, Risk of Non-Persuasion and Judicial Pragmatism, 54 Modern Law Review  570-576  download
 
1991  Criminal Defences and the Burden of Proof, 28 Coexistence 133-147  download
 
1988 A Political Analysis of Procedural Law (reviewing Mirjan R. Damaska, The Faces of Justice and State Authority, Yale University Press, 1986), 51 Modern Law Review  659-675 download
 
1987 Bentham, Wigmore and Freedom of Proof (reviewing William Twining, Theories of Evidence: Bentham & Wigmore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985), 22 Israel Law Review 245-276
 
1985 Eavesdropping and Electronic Surveillance in Criminal and National Security Investigations, 14 Mishpatim 527-557 (Hebrew)
 
1984  Promises of Public Authorities, 14 Mishpatim 255-294 (Hebrew)
 
1983  On the Probative Value of Out-of-Court Statements, 13 Mishpatim 154-158 (Hebrew)