Founded in 2003 by its inaugural chair, Dean Emeritus David M. Schizer, with the support of then Dean David Leebron, the Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center is an innovative program that brings transactions to Columbia Law School and the teaching of transaction-based skills to the classroom.
The Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center has three principle goals: Curricular innovation, in order to help students to better understand the world of business law; enhancing multi-disciplinary scholarship; and developing scholars with an expertise and interest in transaction-related studies.
Articles
Accepting the Limits of Tax Law and Economics, Alex Raskolnikov
A Fresh Look at State Asset Protection Trust Statutes, Ronald J. Mann
A Model Company Act and a Model Company Court, Ronald J. Gilson
A Reexamination of Glanzer v. Shepard: Surveyors on the Tort- Contract Boundary, Victor P. Goldberg
Bankruptcy and the Entitlements of the Government: Whose Money Is It Anyway?, Ronald J. Mann
Benign Restraint: The SEC's Regulation of Execution Systems, David M. Schizer
Contextual Analysis of Tax Ownership, Alex Raskolnikov
"Contracting" for Credit, Ronald J. Mann
Credit Cards and Debit Cards in the United States and Japan, Ronald J. Mann
Crime and Punishment in Taxation: Deceit, Deterrence, and the Self-Adjusting Penalty, Alex Raskolnikov
Desperately Seeking Consideration: The Unfortunate Impact of U.C.C. Section 2-306 on Contract Interpretation, Victor P. Goldberg
Energy Subsidies: Worthy Goals, Competing Priorities, and Flawed Institutional Design, David M. Schizer
Enlisting the Tax Bar, David M. Schizer
Excuse Doctrine: The Eisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Victor P. Goldberg
Explaining the Pattern of Secured Credit, Ronald J. Mann
Federal Jurisdiction over Preemption Claims: A Post-Franchise Tax Board Analysis, Ronald J. Mann
Fiscal Policy in an Era of Austerity, David M. Schizer
Frictions as a Constraint on Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
I Like To Pay Taxes: Taxpayer Support for Government Spending and the Efficiency of the Tax System, Yair Listokin and David M. Schizer
Irredeemably Inefficient Acts: A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc, Alex Raskolnikov
Is There a Future for Future Claimants After Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor?, Alex Raskolnikov
Just Until Payday, Ronald J. Mann and Jim Hawkins
Limiting Tax Expenditures, David M. Schizer
Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales, Michael R. Powers, David M. Schizer, and Martin Shubik
Optimizing Consumer Credit Markets and Bankruptcy Policy, Ronald J. Mann
Parallel Exclusion, C. Scott Hemphill and Tim Wu
Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts, Victor P. Goldberg
Realization as Subsidy, David M. Schizer
Reflections on Fuller and Perdue's The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages: A Positive Economic Framework, Avery W. Katz
Regulating Internet Payment Intermediaries, Ronald J. Mann
Relational Tax Planning Under Risk-Based Rules, Alex Raskolnikov
Resale Price Maintenance and the FTC: The Magnavox Investigation, Victor P. Goldberg
Revealing Choices: Using Taxpayer Choice to Target Tax Enforcement, Alex Raskolnikov
Sales and Elections as Methods for Transferring Corporate Control, Ronald J. Gilson and Alan Schwartz
Saving Up for Bankruptcy, Ronald J. Mann and Katherine Porter
Searching for Negotiability Payment and Credit Systems, Ronald J. Mann
Secured Credit and Software Financing, Ronald J. Mann
Sticks and Snakes: Derivatives and Curtailing Aggressive Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
Strategy and Force in the Liquidation of Secured Debt, Ronald J. Mann
Subsidizing Charitable Contributions: Incentives, Information, and the Private Pursuit of Public Goals, David M. Schizer
Subsidizing the Press, David M. Schizer
The Cost of Norms: Tax Effects of Tacit Understandings, Alex Raskolnikov
The First Shall Be Last: A Contextual Argument for Abandoning Temporal Rules of Lien Priority, Ronald J. Mann
The Free Rider Problem, Imperfect Pricing, and the Economics of Retailing Services, Victor P. Goldberg
The Idiosyncrasy of Patent Examiners: Effects of Experience and Attrition, Ronald J. Mann
The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias, Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman
The Option Element in Contracting, Avery W. Katz
The Role of Letters of Credit in Payment Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
The Role of Secured Credit in Small-Business Lending, Ronald J. Mann
Transactional Economics: Victor Goldberg's Framing Contract Law, Mark P. Gergen, Victor P. Goldberg, Stewart Macaulay, and Keith A. Rowley
Understanding the Japanese Kieretsu: Overlaps Between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization, Ronald J. Gilson and Mark J. Roe
Understanding Venture Capital Structure: A Tax Explanation for Convertible Preferred Stock, Ronald J. Gilson and David M. Schizer
Unlimited Liability and Law Firm Organization: Tax Factors and the Direction of Causation, Ronald J. Gilson
Verification Institutions in Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Why Defenders Feel Defensive, Jane M. Spinak
Essays
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Taxing Corporations or Shareholders (or Both), David M. Schizer
Information Technology and Non-Legal Sanctions in Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Just One Click: The Reality of Internet Retail Contracting, Ronald J. Mann and Travis Siebeneicher
Making Sense of Payments Policy in the Information Age, Ronald J. Mann
Putting Stored-Value Cards in Their Place, Liran Haim and Ronald J. Mann
Six Degrees of Graduation: Law and Economics of Variable Sanctions, Alex Raskolnikov
The Net Profits Puzzle, Victor P. Goldberg
Forewords
F. Hodge O'Neal Corporate and Securities Law Symposium: Path Dependence and Comparative Corporate Governance, Ronald J. Mann and Curtis J. Milhaupt
Responses/Comments
Clarifying the Record, Victor P. Goldberg
Informality as a Bilateral Assurance Mechanism: Comments on Ronald Mann's The Role of Letters of Credit in Payment Transactions, Avery W. Katz
On the Use of Practitioner Surveys in Commercial Law Research: Comments on Daniel Keating's Exploring the Battle of the Forms in Action, Avery W. Katz
Working Papers
Accepting the Limits of Tax Law and Economics, Alex Raskolnikov
Adopting, Using, and Discarding Paper and Electronic Payment Instruments: Variation by Age and Race, Ronald J. Mann
Adopting, Using, and Discarding Paper and Electronic Payment Instruments: Variation by Age and Race, Ronald J. Mann
An Empirical Investigation of Liquidation Choices of Failed High-Tech Firms, Ronald J. Mann
A New Look at Patent Quality: Relating Patent Prosecution to Validity, Ronald J. Mann and Marian Underweiser
A New Look at Patent Quality: Relating Patent Prosecution to Validity, Ronald J. Mann and Marian Underweiser
Anticompetitive Regulation in the Payment of Card Industry, Ronald J. Mann
A Requiem for Sam's Bank, Ronald J. Mann
Assessing the Optimism of Payday Loan Borrowers, Ronald J. Mann
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Taxing Corporations or Shareholders (or Both), David M. Schizer
Consequential Damages and Exclusion Clauses, Victor P. Goldberg
Contextual Analysis of Tax Ownership, Alex Raskolnikov
"Contracting" for Credit, Ronald J. Mann
Credit Cards and Debit Cards in the United States and Japan, Ronald J. Mann
Credit Cards, Consumer Credit, and Bankruptcy, Ronald J. Mann
Crime and Punishment in Taxation: Deceit, Deterrence, and the Self-Adjusting Penalty, Alex Raskolnikov
Debt, Bankruptcy, and the Life Course, Allison Mann, Ronald J. Mann, and Sophie Staples
Do Defaults on Payday Loans Matter?, Ronald J. Mann
Does Venture Capital Require an Active Stock Market?, Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black
Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?, Ronald J. Mann
Energy Subsidies: Worthy Goals, Competing Priorities, and Flawed Institutional Design, David M. Schizer
Engineering a Venture Capital Market: Lessons from the American Experience, Ronald J. Gilson
Enlisting the Tax Bar, David M. Schizer
Explaining the Pattern of Secured Credit, Ronald J. Mann
Fee Shifting in Litigation: Survey and Assessment, Avery W. Katz and Chris William Sanchirico
Fiscal Policy in an Era of Austerity, David M. Schizer
Free Riding on Hot Wheels, Victor P. Goldberg
Frictions as a Constraint on Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
Globalizing Corporate Governance: Convergence of Form or Function, Ronald J. Gilson
I Like to Pay Taxes: Taxpayer Support for Government Spending and the Efficiency of the Tax System, David M. Schizer and Yair Listokin
Information Technology and the Increasing Efficacy of Non-Legal Sanctions in Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
In Search of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor v. Falstaff, Victor P. Goldberg
Irredeemably Inefficient Acts: A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc, Alex Raskolnikov