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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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

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

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

Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert?

Journal article · 2016 Link to item Cite

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

Journal article Alabama Law Review · 2015 Link to item 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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