Matthew D. Adler

Richard A. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law

School of Law

adler@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Rm 4192, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Selected Publications

A Better Calculus for Regulators: From Cost-Benefit Analysis to the Social Welfare Function

Journal Article · 2017 Link to item Cite

Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and Intergenerational Equity: A Cake Eating Model

Journal Article Mathematical Social Sciences · 2017 Link to item Cite

Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon

Journal Article CESifo Working Paper Series · August 14, 2016 Cite

Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview

Journal Article Review of Environmental Economics & Policy · 2016 Link to item Cite

Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Book · 2016 Cite

Aggregating Moral Preferences

Journal Article Economics & Philosophy · 2016 Link to item Cite

Behavioral Economics, Happiness Surveys, and Public Policy

Journal Article Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis · 2016 Cite

Extended Preferences

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Inequality of What?

Other OUPblog · 2016 Cite

Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert?

Journal Article · 2016 Link to item Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Social Welfare Functions

Other RegBlog · 2016 Cite

Years of Good Life Based on Income and Health: Re-Engineering Cost-Benefit Analysis to Examine Policy Impact on Wellbeing and Distributive Justice

Report · 2016 Link to item Cite

Equity by the Numbers: Measuring Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice

Journal Article Alabama Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Welfarism, Equity, and the Choice Between Statistical and Identified Victims

Chapter · 2015 Cite

Value and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter · 2015 Cite

Would You Choose to be Happy? Tradeoffs Between Happiness and the Other Dimensions of Life in a Large Population Survey

Journal Article · 2015 Link to item Cite

Prioritarianism and Climate Change

Journal Article Environmental & Resource Economics · 2015 Cite

The Ethical Value of Risk Reduction: Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter · 2015 Cite

The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach

Journal Article Journal of Health Economics · 2014 Link to item Cite

Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons: A New Account

Journal Article Economics & Philosophy · 2014 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Journal of Moral Philosophy · 2014 Cite

Consumption, Risk, and Prioritarianism

Journal Article · 2014 Link to item Cite

Using and Improving the Social Cost of Carbon

Journal Article Science · 2014 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Oeconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy · 2014 Link to item Cite

The Pigou-Dalton Principle and the Structure of Distributive Justice

Journal Article · 2013 Link to item Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Happiness, Health and Leisure: Valuing the Nonconsumption Impacts of Unemployment

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What's the Use?

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2013 Link to item Cite

Interpretive Contestation and Legal Correctness

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost Benefit Analysis

Book · 2012 Link to item Cite

Harsanyi 2.0

Journal Article · 2011 Link to item Cite

Contingent Valuation Studies and Health Policy

Journal Article Health Economics, Policy & Law · 2010 Link to item Cite

Regulatory Theory

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Ethics · 2010 Cite

Future Generations: A Prioritarian View

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article Regulation & Governance · 2009 Cite

Bounded Rationality and Legal Scholarship

Chapter · 2009 Cite

On (Moral) Philosophy and American Legal Scholarship

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

Chapter · 2009 Cite

The Rule of Recognition and the Constitution

Book · 2009 Link to item Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Risk Equity: A New Proposal

Journal Article Harvard Environmental Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Introducing a 'Different Lives' Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being

Journal Article · 2008 Link to item Cite

Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article Journal of Legal Studies · 2008 Link to item Cite

Economic Growth and the Interests of Future (and Past and Present) Generations: A Comment on Tyler Cowen

Journal Article University of Chicago Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Corrective Justice and Liability for Global Warming

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis

Journal Article Administrative & Regulatory Law News · 2007 Link to item Cite

Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications

Journal Article · 2007 Link to item Cite

Why De Minimis?

Journal Article · 2007 Link to item Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis: New Foundations

Journal Article Legislacao: Cadernos de Ciencia de Legislacao · 2006 Cite

Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Welfare Polls: A Synthesis

Journal Article New York University Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Constitutional Fidelity, the Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn in Contemporary Positivism

Journal Article Fordham Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?

Journal Article Northwestern University Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective

Journal Article Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics · 2006 Link to item Cite

New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Book · 2006 Link to item Cite

Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Justification, Legitimacy, and Administrative Governance

Journal Article Issues in Legal Scholarship · 2005 Link to item Cite

Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

Cognitivism, Controversy and Moral Heuristics

Journal Article Behavioral & Brain Sciences · 2005 Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Ethics · 2005 Link to item Cite

Nonlinear: Introduction

Journal Article Nonlinear Dynamics · 2005 Full text Link to item Cite

Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety

Journal Article Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety

Journal Article Administrative & Regulatory Law News · 2004 Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis, Static Efficiency, and the Goals of Environmental Law

Journal Article Environmental Affairs · 2004 Cite

Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

Legal Transitions: Some Welfarist Remarks

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2003 Link to item Cite

Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

The Puzzle of Ex Ante Efficiency: Does Rational Approvability have Moral Weight?

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

Does the Constitution Require (Basic or Strengthened) Public Rationality?

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Introduction to Symposium, Preferences and Rational Choice: New Perspectives and Legal Implications

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

The Positive Political Theory of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment on Johnston

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2002 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Notre Dame Philosophical Review: An Electronic Journal · 2002 Link to item Cite

Risk, Death and Time: A Comment on Judge Williams' Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article Administrative Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Expression and Appearance: A Comment on Hellman

Journal Article Maryland Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Rights, Rules and the Structure of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response to Professor Fallon

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Beyond Efficiency and Procedure: A Welfarist Theory of Regulation

Journal Article Florida State University Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Personal Rights and Rule-Dependence: Can the Two Coexist?

Journal Article Legal Theory · 2000 Link to item Cite

Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis When Preferences Are Distorted

Journal Article Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing · 2000 Link to item Cite

Linguistic Meaning, Nonlinguistic "Expression," and the Multiple Variants of Expressivism: A Reply to Professors Anderson and Pildes

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Introduction, to Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article Journal of Legal Studies · 2000 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Philosophy in Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives

Book · 2000 Link to item Cite

Rights and Rules: An Overview

Journal Article Legal Theory · 2000 Link to item Cite

Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article Yale Law Journal · 1999 Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Philosophy in Review · 1999 Link to item Cite

The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey

Journal Article Supreme Court Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure of American Constitutional Law

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Incommensurability and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Can Constitutional Borrowing be Justified? A Comment on Tushnet

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law · 1998 Link to item Cite

Law and Incommensurability: Introduction

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Judicial Restraint in the Administrative State: Beyond the Countermajoritarian Difficulty

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

What States Owe Outsiders

Journal Article Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly · 1993 Link to item Cite