Publications (by area)
Books
Keith N. Hylton, Tort Law: A Modern Perspective (2016)
Keith N. Hylton & Ronald A. Cass, Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas (2013)
Keith N. Hylton & Alon Harel, Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law (2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Antitrust Law and Economics (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution (2003)
Tort Law and General Rights
General
Keith N. Hylton, Two Approaches to Equality, with Implications for Grutter, 56 Suffolk University Law Review 47 (2023)
Keith N. Hylton, Information Costs and the Civil Justice System, American Law and Economics Review (2023)
Keith N. Hylton, Selling Out: An Instrumentalist Theory of Legal Ethics, 34 The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (2021)
Keith N. Hylton, Calabresi's Influence on Law and Economics, in Pioneers of Law and Economics (Lloyd R. Cohen & Joshua D. Wright,2009)
Keith N. Hylton, Calabresi and the Intellectual History of Law and Economics, 64 Maryland Law Review (2005)
Keith N. Hylton, Introduction Symposium: The Jurisprudence of Slavery Reparations: Introduction, 84 Boston University Law Review (2004)
Keith N. Hylton, A Framework for Reparations Claims, 24 Boston College Third World Law Journal (2004)
Keith N. Hylton, Slavery and Tort Law, 84 Boston University Law Review (2004)
Keith N. Hylton, Implications of Mill's Theory of Liberty for the Regulation of Hate Speech and Hate Crimes, 3 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable (1996)
Keith N. Hylton, New Private Law Theory and Tort Law: A Comment,125 Harvard Law Review Forum 173 (2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Yulia Rodionova & Fei Deng, Church and State: An Economic Analysis, 13 American Law and Economics Review (2011)
Keith N. Hylton, Property Rights and the Human Body, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Volume 4 (Leonard W. Levy & Kenneth L. Karst,2000)
Strict Liability and Nuisance
Keith N. Hylton, Nuisance, in No. 14-60 Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello,2014)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Nuisance Law, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law (Kenneth Ayotte and Henry E. Smith,2011)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economic Theory of Nuisance Law and Implications for Environmental Regulation, 58 Case Western Reserve Law Review (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Public Nuisance Law and the New Enforcement Actions, 18 Supreme Court Economic Review (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, A Positive Theory of Strict Liability, 4 Review of Law & Economics (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, Liability Externalities and the Law: A Comment on Cooter and Porat, 1 Journal of Tort Law (2006)
Keith N. Hylton, When Should We Prefer Tort Law to Environmental Regulation?, 41 Washburn Law Journal (2002)
Causation
Keith N. Hylton & Beixi Zhou, Causation and Incentives with Updating Courts,176 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2020)
Keith N. Hylton, Haizhen Lin & Hyo-Youn Chu, Negligence and Two-Sided Causation, 40 European Journal of Law and Economics (2015)
Keith N. Hylton, Information and Causation in Tort Law: Generalizing the Learned Hand Test for Causation Cases, 7 Journal of Tort Law (2014)
Keith N. Hylton, Causation in Tort Law: A Reconsideration, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts (2013)
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin, Negligence, Causation, and Incentives for Care, 35 International Review of Law and Economics (2013)
Property Rules and Liability Rules
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Necessity, 41 Journal of Legal Studies (2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Property Rules and Defensive Conduct in Tort Law Theory, 4 Journal of Tort Law (2011)
Keith N. Hylton, Tort Duties of Landowners: A Positive Theory, 44 Wake Forest Law Review (2009)
Keith N. Hylton, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Immunity: An Application to Cyberspace, 87 Boston University Law Review (2007)
Keith N. Hylton, Property Rules and Liability Rules, Once Again, 2 Review of Law & Economics (2006)
Keith N. Hylton, Duty in Tort Law: An Economic Approach, 75 Fordham Law Review (2006)
Products Liability and Preemption of Tort Law
Keith N. Hylton, The Law and Economics of Products Liability, 88 Notre Dame Law Review (2013)
Keith N. Hylton, An Economic Perspective on Preemption, 53 Boston College Law Review (2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Larry E. Ribstein, Paul H. Rubin & Todd J. Zywicki, Balancing of Markets, Litigation and Regulation, 7 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, Preemption and Products Liability: A Positive Theory, 16 Supreme Court Economic Review (2008)
Damages
Keith N. Hylton, Due Process and Punitive Damages: An Economic Approach, 2 Charleston Law Review (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, Asbestos and Mass Torts with Fraudulent Victims, 37 Southwestern Law Review (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, A Theory of Wealth and Punitive Damages, 17 Widener Law Journal (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, Reflections on Remedies and Philip Morris v. Williams, 27 The Review of Litigation (2007)
Keith N. Hylton & Thomas J. Miceli, Should Tort Damages Be Multiplied?, 21 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2005)
Keith N. Hylton, Punitive Damages and the Economic Theory of Penalties, 87 Georgetown Law Journal (1998)
Tort Law and Incentives
Keith N. Hylton & Benjamin Ogden, Incentives to Take Care Under Contributory and Comparative Fault, 61 International Review of Law and Economics (2020)
Keith N. Hylton, Intent in Tort Law, 44 Valparaiso University Law Review (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, Torts and Choice of Law: Searching for Principles, 56 Journal of Legal Education (2006)
Keith N. Hylton, The Theory of Tort Doctrine and the Restatement of Torts, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review (2001)
Keith N. Hylton, A Missing Markets Theory of Tort Law, 90 Northwestern University Law Review (1996)
Keith N. Hylton, The Internalization Paradox and Workers' Compensation, 21 Hofstra Law Review (1992)
Keith N. Hylton, Litigation Costs and the Economic Theory of Tort Law, 46 University of Miami Law Review (1991)
Antitrust Law and Economics
General
Keith N. Hylton, A Comment on Markovits’s Welfare Economics and Antitrust, 68 Antitrust Bulletin 603 (2023)
Keith N. Hylton, Gorsuch versus Scalia: How Will Antitrust Change? 16 Antitrust Source 1 (2017)
Keith N. Hylton, Scalia and Antitrust, 30 Antitrust 60 (2016)
Keith N. Hylton, Antitrust Enforcement Regimes: Fundamental Differences, in 1 The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics (Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol, 2015)
Keith N. Hylton, Brown Shoe Versus the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 39 Review of Industrial Organization (2011)
Keith N. Hylton, Panel I: Professor Brodley’s General Contributions to Antitrust Scholarship: Introduction, 90 Boston University Law Review (2010)
Antitrust and Innovation
Keith N. Hylton & Wendy Xu, Error Costs, Ratio Tests, and Patent Antitrust Law, 56 Review of Industrial Organization (2020)
Keith N. Hylton, Digital Platforms and Antitrust Law, 98 Nebraska Law Review (2019)
Keith N. Hylton, Law, Social Welfare, and Net Neutrality, 50 Review of Industrial Organization (2017)
Keith N. Hylton, The Wisdom of Douglas Ginsburg and the Competition Versus Innovation Conflict, in Liber Amicorum - Volume 1 Douglas H. Ginsburg: An Antitrust Professor on the Bench (Nicholas Charbit, Carolina Malhado & Ellie Yang, 2018)
Keith N. Hylton, Reverse Payments Post Actavis: A Litigation Quagmire?, CPI Antitrust Chronicle (2015)
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin, Innovation and Optimal Punishment, with Antitrust Applications, 10 Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2014)
Keith N. Hylton, A Unified Framework for Competition Policy and Innovation Policy, 22 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (2014)
Keith N. Hylton & Sungjoon Cho, Injunctive and Reverse Settlements in Competition-Blocking Litigation, 36 European Journal of Law and Economics (2013)
Keith N. Hylton, Optimal Antitrust Enforcement, Dynamic Competition, and Changing Economic Conditions, 77 Antitrust Law Journal (2010)
Keith N. Hylton & David S. Evans, The Lawful Acquisition and Exercise of Monopoly Power and its Implications for the Objectives of Antitrust, 4 Competition Policy International (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, Economic Rents and Essential Facilities, 1991 Brigham Young University Law Review (1991)
Empirical Antitrust
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin, American and European Monopolization Law: A Doctrinal and Empirical Comparison, in Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty : Regulating Innovation (Geoffrey A. Manne and Joshua D. Wright,2011)
Keith N. Hylton & Fei Deng, Antitrust Around the World: An Empirical Analysis of the Scope of Competition Laws and Their Effects, 74 Antitrust Law Journal (2007)
Monopolization
Keith N. Hylton, Markovits on Defining Monopolization: A Comment, 61 The Antitrust Bulletin (2016)
Keith N. Hylton, Microsoft After Fifteen Years, 11 Competition Policy International (2015)
Keith N. Hylton, Microsoft's Antitrust Travails, 14 Antitrust Magazine Online (2014)
Keith N. Hylton, Intel and the Death of U.S. Antitrust Law, 2 The CPI Antitrust Journal (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, The Law and Economics of Monopolization Standards, in Antitrust Law and Economics (Keith N. Hylton, 2010)
Keith N. Hylton, A Comment on the Intel Fine, June 2009 GCP: The Online Magazine for Global Competition Policy (2009)
Keith N. Hylton, Remedies, Antitrust Law, and Microsoft: Comment on Shapiro, 75 Antitrust Law Journal (2009)
Keith N. Hylton, Unilateral Refusals to Deal and the Antitrust Modernization Commission Report, 53 Antitrust Bulletin (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, Weyerhaeuser, Predatory Bidding, and Error Costs, 53 The Antitrust Bulletin (2008)
Keith N. Hylton & Ronald A. Cass, Antitrust Intent, 74 Southern California Law Review (2001)
Keith N. Hylton & Ronald A. Cass, Preserving Competition: Economic Analysis, Legal Standards and Microsoft, 8 George Mason Law Review (1999)
Keith N. Hylton & Mark Lasser, Measuring Market Power When the Firm Has Power in the Input and Output Markets, in Economic Inputs, Legal Outputs: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust (Fred S. McChesney,1998)
Concerted Action
Keith N. Hylton, Oligopoly Pricing and Richard Posner, 18 Antitrust Source (2018)
Keith N. Hylton, Should Antitrust Fines Target Firms or Agents?, in Global Antitrust Economics - Current Issues in Antitrust and Law (Douglas H. Ginsburg & Joshua D. Wright, 2016)
Keith N. Hylton, Deterrence and Antitrust Punishment: Firms Versus Agents, 100 Iowa Law Review (2015)
Tying and Vertical Restraints
Keith N. Hylton & Michael Salinger, Reply to Grimes: Illusory Distinctions and Schisms in Tying Law, 70 Antitrust Law Journal (2002)
Keith N. Hylton & Michael Salinger, Tying Law and Policy: A Decision Theoretic Approach, 69 Antitrust Law Journal (2001)
Andy C.M. Chen & Keith N. Hylton, Procompetitive Theories of Vertical Control, 50 Hastings Law Journal (1999)
Intellectual Property
Copyright
Keith N. Hylton, Utility, Copyright, and Fair Use after Warhol, 32 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 135 (2024)
Patent
Keith N. Hylton & Mengxi Zhang, Optimal Remedies for Patent Infringement, 52 International Review of Law and Economics (2017)
Keith N. Hylton, Enhanced Damages for Patent Infringement: A Normative Approach, 36 Review of Litigation (2017)
Keith N. Hylton, Antitrust and Intellectual Property: A Brief Introduction, in The Cambridge Handbook of Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and High Tech (Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol, 2016)
Keith N. Hylton, Roger Blair and Intellectual Property, 61 Antitrust Bulletin (2016)
Keith N. Hylton, Patent Uncertainty: Toward a Framework with Applications, 96 Boston University Law Review (2016)
Economics of Litigation, Tort Deterrence, Arbitration, and Legal Evolution
Economics of Litigation, Settlement, and Deterrence
Keith N. Hylton, Mutual Optimism and Risk Preferences in Litigation, 75 International Review of Law and Economics (2023)
Keith N. Hylton, Deterrence and Aggregate Litigation, No. 17-45 Boston University School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper (2018)
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin, A Formalization and Extension of the Priest-Klein Hypothesis, No. 11-28 Boston University School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper (2012)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements, 12 American Law and Economics Review (2010)
Keith N. Hylton, When Should a Case Be Dismissed? The Economics of Pleading and Summary Judgment Standards, 16 Supreme Court Economic Review (2008)
Keith N. Hylton, An Asymmetric Information Model of Litigation, 22 International Review of Law and Economics (2002)
Keith N. Hylton, Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation Under Strict Liability, 4 American Law and Economics Review (2002)
Keith N. Hylton, Rule 68, The Modified British Rule, and Civil Litigation Reform, 1 Michigan Law and Policy Review (1996)
Keith N. Hylton, Litigation Cost Allocation Rules and Compliance with the Negligence Standard 22 Journal of Legal Studies (1993)
Keith N. Hylton, Fee Shifting and Incentives to Comply with the Law, 46 Vanderbilt Law Review (1993)
Keith N. Hylton, The Influence of Litigation Costs on Deterrence Under Strict Liability and Under Negligence, 10 International Review of Law and Economics (1990)
Keith N. Hylton, Costly Litigation and Legal Error Under Negligence, 6 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1990)
Legal Evolution
Keith N. Hylton, Law and Economics Versus Economic Analysis of Law, 48 European Journal of Law and Economics (2019)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of the Restatement and of the Common Law, 79 Brooklyn Law Review (2014)
Keith N. Hylton, Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution, 8 American Law and Economics Review (2006)
Keith N. Hylton, A Note on Trend-Spotting in the Case Law, 40 Boston College Law Review (1999)
Keith N. Hylton, Fee Shifting and Predictability of Law, 71 Chicago-Kent Law Review (1995)
Selection of Disputes for Litigation
Keith N. Hylton, Trial Selection and Estimating Damages Equations, Review of Law and Economics (2023)
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin, Trial Selection Theory and Evidence, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics: Procedural Law and Economics (C.W. Sanchirico, 2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Asymmetric Information and the Selection of Disputes for Litigation, 22 Journal of Legal Studies (1993)
Waiver and Arbitration
Keith N. Hylton, Waivers, 102 Nebraska Law Review 172 (2023) (SSRN version)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Class Actions and Class Action Waivers, 23 Supreme Court Economic Review (2015)
Keith N. Hylton, Arbitration: Governance Benefits and Enforcement Costs, 80 Notre Dame Law Review (2005)
Keith N. Hylton, Law and Economics of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements, in 53 Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Employment Arena: Proceedings of New York University 53rd Annual Conference on Labor (Samuel Estreicher & David Sherwyn,2004)
Keith N. Hylton & Christopher R. Drahozal, The Economics of Litigation and Arbitration: An Application to Franchise Contracts, 32 Journal of Legal Studies (2003)
Keith N. Hylton, Agreements to Waive or to Arbitrate Legal Claims: An Economic Analysis, 8 Supreme Court Economic Review (2000)
Third Party Funding of Litigation
Keith N. Hylton, Toward a Regulatory Framework for Third-Party Funding of Litigation, 63 DePaul Law Review (2014)
Keith N. Hylton, The Economics of Third-Party Financed Litigation, 8 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy (2012)
Criminal Law and Procedure, Economics of Crime
Keith N. Hylton, Economic Theory of Criminal Law, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2019)
Keith N. Hylton, Whom Should We Punish, and How? Rational Incentives and Criminal Justice Reform, 59 William & Mary Law Review (2018)
Keith N. Hylton, Economics of Criminal Procedure, in Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics (Francesco Parisi, 2017)
Keith N. Hylton, Some Notes on Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Criminal Law, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law (Alon Harel and Keith N. Hylton, 2012)
Keith N. Hylton, Efficient Deterrence and Crime Control, in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan,2011)
Keith N. Hylton, Political Economy of Criminal Procedure, in Criminal Law and Economics (N. Garoupa,2009)
Keith N. Hylton & Vikramaditya Khanna, A Public Choice Theory of Criminal Procedure, 15 Supreme Court Economic Review (2007)
Keith N. Hylton, The Theory of Penalties and the Economics of Criminal Law, 1 Review of Law and Economics (2005)
Keith N. Hylton, Optimal Law Enforcement and Victim Precaution, 27 RAND Journal of Economics (1996)
Labor Law and Economics
Keith N. Hylton, Law and the Future of Organized Labor in America, 49 Wayne Law Review (2003)
Keith N. Hylton, Labor and the Supreme Court: Review of the 1996-1997 Term, 13 Labor Lawyer (1997)
Keith N. Hylton, A Theory of Minimum Contract Terms, with Implications for Labor Law, 74 Texas Law Review (1996)
Keith N. Hylton, Review of Agenda for Reform: The Future of Employment Relationships and the Law. by William B. Gould, IV. 32 Journal of Economic Literature (1994) (book review)
Keith N. Hylton, An Economic Theory of the Duty to Bargain, 83 Georgetown Law Journal (1994)
Keith N. Hylton, Efficiency and Labor Law, 87 Northwestern University Law Review (1993)
Keith N. Hylton, Rent Appropriation and the Labor Law Doctrine of Successorship, 70 Boston University Law Review (1990)
Keith N. Hylton & Maria O'Brien, Rational Decisions and Regulation of Union Entry, 34 Villanova Law Review (1989)
Keith N. Hylton, Illusory Wage Differentials: Comment, 74 The American Economic Review (1984)
Banks, Inner Cities, and Development Lending
Keith N. Hylton, Comment on 'Error and Regulatory Risk in Financial Institution Regulation', 25 Supreme Court Economic Review 193 (2017)
Keith N. Hylton, Development Lending and the Community Reinvestment Act, 29 Western New England Law Review (2006)
Keith N. Hylton, Banks and Inner Cities: Market and Regulatory Obstacles to Development Lending, 17 Yale Journal on Regulation (2000)
Keith N. Hylton & Vincent D. Rougeau, The Community Reinvestment Act: Questionable Premises and Perverse Incentives, 18 Annual Review of Banking Law (1999)
Keith N. Hylton & Vincent D. Rougeau, Lending Discrimination: Economic Theory, Econometric Evidence, and the Community Reinvestment Act, 85 Georgetown Law Journal (1996)
Biomedical Ethics, Law, and Economics
Keith N. Hylton, Biomedical Ethics and the Law: A Critical Perspective, 15 Jahrbuch fur Recht und Ethik (2007)
Keith N. Hylton, The Law and Ethics of Organ Sales, 4 Annual Review of Law and Ethics/ Jahrbuch fur Recht und Ethik (1996)
Keith N. Hylton, The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement, 12 Law & Policy (1990)
Econometrics and Miscellaneous
Keith N. Hylton, Testing Overidentifying Restrictions with Inefficient Estimators, 25 Economics Letters (1987)
Keith N. Hylton & Nils Gottfries, Are MIT Students Rational?, 8 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1987)
Keith N. Hylton, A Note on the Inefficiency of Non-Linear Estimators, 17 Economics Letters (1985)