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Major Treatises by Topic

This guide lists major legal treatises, handbooks, hornbooks and guides by topic. It also lists important current awareness and reporting services for each topic.

Multi-Volume Treatises

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

Handbook of Law and Economics (A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, eds., 2007).
Print: Law Library Stacks K487.E3 H36 2007. (2 volumes).

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman ed., 1998).
Print: Law Library Reference K487.E3N4863 1998. (3 volumes).

Single-Volume Treatises/Hornbooks

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

Jeffrey L. Harrison, Law and Economics in a Nutshell (7th ed., 2020).
Online: West Academic Study Aids

Richard A. Ippolito, Economics for Lawyers (2005).
Print: Law Library Stacks K487.E3I67 2005. Online: ProQuest Ebook Central (2012)

Law and Economics: New and Critical Perspectives (Robin Paul Malloy & Christopher K. Braun eds., 1995).
Print: Law Library Stacks K487.E3L387 1995.

Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (7th ed., 2007).
Print: Law Library Stacks K487.E3 P67 2007.

Steven Shavell, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (2004).
Print: Law Library Stacks K487.E3 S53 2004. Online: Jstor and others (2021)

Current Awareness & Looseleaf Services

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

Research in Law and Economics. (Frequency: Annual).
Online: Vols. 1-30 (1979-2022): HeinOnline.