Review essay. The New Palgrave: surveying two waves of economic analysis of law

Author: Edlin A.

Source: American Law and Economics Review, Volume 2, Number 2, 2000 , pp. 407-422(16)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Language: English

Document Type: Original article

Affiliations: E-mail: edlin@econ.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley, Department of Economics, 549 Evans Hall, Campus Box 3380, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

Publication date: 2000-01-01

• The rise of the field of law and economics has been extremely rapid over the last 25 years. Among important developments of the 1990s has been the founding of the American Law and Economics Association. The creation and rapid expansion of the ALEA and the creation of parallel associations in Europe, Latin America, and Canada attest to the growing acceptance of the economic perspective on law by judges, practitioners, and policy-makers.

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