Omri Ben-Shahar

Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1999-2008

Books

• Editor. Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
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Book Chapters

• Co-author. "Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto-Manufacturing Contracts." J. J. White, co-author. In Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts, edited by O. Ben-Shahar, 29-44. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
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• "Causation and Forseeability." In Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, edited by B. Bouckaert and G. DeGeest, vol. 2 (Civil Law and Economics): 644-68. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing, 2000.
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Journal Articles

• Co-author. "Partially Odious Debts?" M. Gulati, co-author. Law & Contemp. Probs. 70, no. 4 (2007): 47-81.
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• "Against Irreparable Benefits." Yale L.J. Pocket Part 116, no. 2 (2007): 381-4.
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• Co-author. "On the Stickiness of Default Rules." J.A.E. Pottow, co-author. Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 33, no. 3 (2006): 651-82.
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• "The (Legal) Pains of Vioxx: Why Product Liability Can Make Products More Dangerous." Economists' Voice 3, no. 6 (2006): 1-4.
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• Co-author. "Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto Manufacturing Contracts." J. J. White, co-author. Mich. L. Rev. 104, no. 5 (2006): 953-82.
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• Co-author. "The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law." R.A. Mikos, co-author. Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 7, no. 2 (2005): 484-522.
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• "Legal Durability." Rev. L. & Econ. 1, no. 1 (2005): 15-53.
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• "An Ex-Ante View of the Battle of the Forms: Inducing Parties to Draft Reasonable Terms." Int'l Rev. L. & Econ. 25, no. 3 (2005 ): 350-70.
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• "Credible Coercion." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. Tex. L. Rev. 83, no. 3 (2005): 717-80.
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• "Mutual Assent Versus Gradual Ascent: The Debate Over the Right to Retract." U. Pa. L. Rev. 152, no. 6 (2004): 1947-55.
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• Co-author. "The Law of Duress and the Economics of Credible Threats." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. J. Legal Stud. 33, no. 2 (2004): 391-430.
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• "Contracts without Consent: Exploring a New Basis for Contractual Liability." U. Pa. L. Rev. 152, no. 6 (2004): 1829-72.
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• " 'Agreeing to Disagree': Filling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete Contracts (Freedom from Contract Symposium)." Wis. L. Rev. 2004, no. 2 (2004): 389-428.
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• Co-author. "The Uneasy Case for Comparative Negligence." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 5, no. 2 (2003): 433-69.
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• Co-author. "Threatening an Irrational Breach of Contract." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 11 (2003): 143-70.
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• "Precontractual Reliance." L. A. Bebchuk, co-author. J. Legal Stud. 30, no. 2 (2001): 423-58.
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• Co-author. "The Secrecy Interest in Contract Law." L. Bernstein, co-author. Yale L.J. 109, no. 8 (2000): 1885-925.
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• "Linking the Visions." Law Quad. Notes 43, no. 3 (2000): 4.
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• "Formalism in Commercial Law: The Tentative Case against Flexibility in Commercial Law." U. Chi. L. Rev. 66, no. 3 (1999): 781-820.
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• "The Erosion of Rights by Past Breach." Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 1, no. 1 (1999): 190-238.
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Reviews

• Review of Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, by Ian Ayres. J. Econ. Literature 44, no. 2 (2006 ): 444-9.
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Other Publications

• "Preface: Or: A Boilerplate Introduction." Preface to Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts, by O. Ben-Shahar, editor, ix-xiv. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
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• Foreword to "Boilerplate: Foundations of Market Contracts Symposium." Mich. L. Rev. 104, no. 5 (2006): 821-6.
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• "Freedom from Contract (Freedom from Contract Symposium)." Foreword to Wis. L. Rev. 2004, no. 2 (2004): 261-70.
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Reprints (Articles and other publications reprinted in full and Law Quadrangle)

• Co-author. "Threatening an 'Irrational' Breach of Contract." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. In The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, edited by F. Parisi and V. L. Smith, 474-500. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2005. (Originally published under the same title in Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 11 (2004): 143-70.)
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