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Max Stearns

Aug 21, 20185 min read

Terminological Conflation and the Behavioralist-Neoclassical Divide

Many disagreements implicating economic analysis arise from terminological misunderstandings. For example, a challenge when teaching Law...

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Max Stearns

Nov 25, 20176 min read

Game Theory and the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars

We are rapidly approaching a world of self-driving cars. Experts contend that as compared with their human-driven counterparts, these...

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Max Stearns

Oct 14, 20176 min read

Finding Trump’s Core

Leading media outlets increasingly recognize that Donald Trump lacks what game theorists refer to as a core. See here and here. An empty...

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Max Stearns

Apr 21, 20175 min read

Campus Speech, Vaccines, and Eating Dirt

College campuses, once a bastion of free speech, have too often been transformed into luxurious enclaves that reinforce the previously...

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Max Stearns

Apr 19, 20175 min read

Dimensionality and its Discontents

In 1930, Sigmund Freud published his masterwork, "Civilization and its Discontents" (available here: http://tinyurl.com/lpnthbh). Freud...

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Maxwell Stearns

I have been teaching law for twenty-nine years, and I am the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. My core areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Law & Economics, which I view as critically interwoven. My most recent book is titled Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic 2018, with Todd Zywicki and Tom Miceli). In this poster, recently created by the Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library, I am pictured with several wonderful books that I've recommended to friends, family, and students.