Richard Craswell
William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Richard Craswell, Promises and Prices, (Symposium--Contract as Promise at 30), 45 Suffolk University Law Review 735 (2012).
Richard Craswell, When is a Willful Breach "Willful"? The Link Between Definitions and Damages, 107 Michigan Law Review 1501 (June 2009).
Richard Craswell, When is a Willful Breach "Willful"? A Puzzle and Two Different Economic Solutions, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 1153169 (July 2008).
Richard Craswell, Benjamin E. Hermalin and Avery W. Katz, Contract Law, in Handbook of Law and Economics, A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, eds., Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007.
Benjamin E. Hermalin, Avery W. Katz, and Richard Craswell, The Law and Economics of Contracts, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 296 (2007).
Richard Craswell, Expectation Damages and Contract Theory Revisited, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 925980 (2006).
Richard Craswell, Taking Information Seriously: Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure in Contract Law and Elsewhere, 92 Virginia Law Review 565 (2006).
Richard Craswell, Taking Information Seriously: Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure In Contract Law and Elsewhere. Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, no. 314 (2005).
Richard Craswell, The “Incomplete Contracts” Literature and Efficient Precautions, 56 Case Western Reserve Law Review 151 (2005).
Richard Craswell, In That Case, What Is the Question? Economics and the Demands of Contract Theory, 112 Yale Law Journal 903-924 (2003).
Richard Craswell, Kaplow and Shavell on the Substance of Fairness (Sympoium on Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare), 32 Journal of Legal Studies 248-275 (2003).
Richard Craswell, Instrumental Theories of Compensation: A Survey, 40 San Diego Law Review 1135-1180 (2003).
Richard Craswell, Libertad de Contratación, in El Análisis Econoḿico del Derecho y la Escuela de Chicago: Lecturas en Honor de Ronald Coase, Eric A. Posner, compilador, Lima: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2002.
Richard Craswell, How We Got This Way: Further Thoughts on Fuller and Perdue (Symposium on Fuller and Perdue), 1 Issues in Legal Scholarship, Article 2 (2001). 31 pages.
Richard Craswell, Two Economic Theories of Enforcing Promises, in The Theory of Contract Law : New Essays, Peter Benson, ed., New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. pp. 19-44.
Richard Craswell, The Sound of One Form Battling, 98 Michigan Law Review 2727-2737 (2000).
Richard Craswell, Do Trade Customs Exist?, in, The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law. Jody S. Kraus and Steven D. Walt, editors. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. p.118-148.
Richard Craswell, Contract Remedies, Renegotiation, and the Theory of Efficient Breach, in, Contract Law. v. 1. Brian Bix, editor. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2000. pp.339-380.
Richard Craswell, Freedom of Contract, in, Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics. Eric A. Posner, editor. New York: Foundation Press, 2000. pp. 81-99.
Richard Craswell, Contract Law: General Theories, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Volume III, The Regulation of Contracts, Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest, eds., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. p.1-24.