Remarks: The Simple Virtues of the Cathedral

Yale Law Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2201-2206

  Calabresi, Guido ^a  

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EID: 0042465060     PISSN: 00440094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/797166     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. See Richard A. Posner, The Costs of Accidents - A Legal and Economic Analysis, 37 U. CHI. L. REV. 636, 636 (1970).
2. See Saul Levmore, Unifying Remedies: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Startling Rules, 106 YALE L.J. 2149, 2155 (1997).
3. See Susan Rose-Ackerman, Inalienability and the Theory of Property Rights, 85 COLUM. L. REV. 931, 934-35 (1985).
4. Carol M. Rose, The Shadow of The Cathedral, 106 YALE L.J. 2175, 2176 (1997).
5. Frank I. Michelman, Pollution as Tort: A Non-Accidental Perspective on Calabresi's Costs, 80 YALE L.J. 647 (1971).
6. See Gary S. Becker, Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach, 76 J. POL. ECON. 169 (1968).
7. See Richard A. Epstein, A Clear View of The Cathedral: The Dominance of Property Rules, 106 YALE L.J. 2091, 2103-05 (1997).
8. See OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, THE COMMON LAW 301 (1881) ("The only universal consequence of a legally binding promise is, that the law makes the promisor pay damages if the promised event does not come to pass."). Epstein argues that the remedies for breach encompass not only damages, but also in the appropriate case, specific performance. See Richard A. Epstein, Toward a Revitalization of the Contract Clause, 51 U. CHI. L. REV. 703, 741 (1984).
9. See OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, THE COMMON LAW 301 (1881) ("The only universal consequence of a legally binding promise is, that the law makes the promisor pay damages if the promised event does not come to pass."). Epstein argues that the remedies for breach encompass not only damages, but also in the appropriate case, specific performance. See Richard A. Epstein, Toward a Revitalization of the Contract Clause, 51 U. CHI. L. REV. 703, 741 (1984).
10. See A. Douglas Melamed, Remarks: A Public Law Perspective, 106 YALE L.J. 2209, 2209 (1997).
11. See James R. Atwood, Note, An Economic Analysis of Land Use Conflicts, 21 STAN. L. REV. 193, 315 (1969).
12. See Guido Calabresi, Concerning Cause and the Law of Torts, 43 U. CHI. L. REV. 69 (1975).
13. See Izhak Englard, Victor Mataja's Liability for Damages from an Economic Viewpoint: A Centennial to an Ignored Economic Analysis of Tort, 10 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 173, 179 (1990) (describing Austrian scholar's 1888 book, which was published in German and largely ignored in American scholarship).
14. After the AALS session, Doug Melamed told me something that sheds yet more light on how ideas proliferate. Atwood and Melamed had been students in the same seminar taught at Yale College by C. Edward Lindblom, a great and innovative scholar whose work - between political science and economics - was troublesome to both fields. I too studied with Lindblom, though considerably earlier. I do not think for a moment that Lindblom "taught" us Rule 4, and neither does Melamed. But is it too far-fetched to think that Lindblom's characteristic and unusual approach encouraged three of his students to look at things in a way that would lead to the same insight?
15. See Jules L. Coleman & Jody Kraus, Rethinking the Theory of Legal Rights, 95 YALE L.J. 1335, 1342-43 (1986).
16. See Rose, supra note 4, at 2179.
17. See James E. Krier & Stewart J. Schwab, Property Rules and Liability Rules: The Cathedral in Another Light, 70 N.Y.U. L. REV. 440, 454-55 (1995).
18. See Ian Ayres & J.M. Balkin, Legal Entitlements as Auctions: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Beyond, 106 YALE L.J. 703 (1996).
19. See Saul Levmore, Self-Assessed Valuation Systems for Tort and Other Law, 68 VA. L. REV. 771 (1982).
20. See Guido Calabresi & Jeffrey O. Cooper, New Directions in Tort Law, 30 VALPARAISO U. L. REV. 859, 868-83 (1996).
21. See Rose, supra note 4, at 2182-87.
22. See Rose-Ackerman, supra note 3, at 949-51.