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Richard H. McAdams is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with significant contributions to economics, econometrics, and finance. The areas of study include political science and international relations, law, sociology and political science, and strategy and management.

Their work covers topics that intersect law, economics, and judicial systems, policing practices and perceptions, regulation and compliance studies, legal and constitutional studies, European and international law studies, American constitutional law and politics, and the role of law in society and culture.

Richard H. McAdams has published frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
  • The Journal of Legal Studies

The scientist's recent papers document research in topics related to legal and policing issues. Notable publications include:

  • "Collective Bargaining Rights and Police Misconduct: Evidence from Florida" (2020, The Journal of Law Economics and Organization)
  • "Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms" (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "The Unexpected Costs of Moral Minimization as an Interrogation Tactic" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Epstein on Private Discrimination: Searching for Common Ground" (2021, The Journal of Legal Studies)
  • "The Consequences and Constitutionality of Training Police to Blame Victims" (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent collaborators include Margareth Etienne, Dhammika Dharmapala, John Rappaport, Christoph Engel, and Jacob I. Corré. These coauthors have contributed jointly to multiple works in related fields.

Best Publications

  • The Origin, Development, and Regulation of Norms

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: The Effect of Third‐Party Expression in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game

    Richard H. McAdams;Janice Nadler

  • Coordinating in the Shadow of the Law: Two Contextualized Tests of the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance

    Richard H. McAdams;Janice Nadler;Janice Nadler

  • An Attitudinal Theory of Expressive Law

    Richard H. McAdams

  • The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Cooperation and Conflict: The Economics of Group Status Production and Race Discrimination

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nuno Garoupa;Richard H. McAdams

  • The Economic Costs of Inequality

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Reforming Entrapment Doctrine in United States v. Hollingsworth

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nuno M. Garoupa;Richard H. McAdams

  • Norms and the Law

    Richard H. McAdams;Eric B. Rasmusen

  • Norms and the Law

    Richard H. McAdams;Eric Rasmusen

  • Norms in Law and Economics

    Eric Bennett Rasmusen;Richard McAdams

  • Beyond the Prisoners' Dilemma: Coordination, Game Theory, and Law

    Richard H. McAdams

  • The Expressive Power of Adjudication

    Richard H. McAdams

  • A Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Chapter 20 Norms and the Law

    Richard H. McAdams;Eric B. Rasmusen

  • Belief in a Just World, Blaming the Victim, and Hate Crime Statutes

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Nuno Garoupa;Richard H. McAdams

  • Words That Kill? An Economic Model of the Influence of Speech on Behavior (with Particular Reference to Hate Speech)

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Richard H. McAdams

  • The Expressive Powers of Law

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Signaling Discount Rates: Law, Norms, and Economic Methodology (reviewing Eric A. Posner, Law and Social Norms (2000))

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Adjudicating in Anarchy: An Expressive Theory of International Dispute Resolution

    Tom Ginsburg;Richard H. McAdams

  • Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game

    Richard H. McAdams;Janice Nadler;Janice Nadler

  • The Distributive Deficit in Law and Economics

    Lee Anne Fennell;Richard H. McAdams

  • Group Norms, Gossip, and Blackmail

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Comment: Accounting for Norms

    Richard H. McAdams

  • Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature

    Alison L. LaCroix;Richard H. McAdams;Martha C. Nussbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Dhammika Dharmapala
Dhammika Dharmapala University of California, Berkeley
Nuno Garoupa
Nuno Garoupa George Mason University
Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago
Aziz Z. Huq
Aziz Z. Huq University of Chicago
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago
Francesco Parisi
Francesco Parisi University of Minnesota
Henry Hansmann
Henry Hansmann Yale University

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