Richard S. Markovits
- The John B. Connally Chair in Law
- Professor
Richard Markovits teaches and writes about antitrust, law and economics, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. Professor Markovits created Texas Law's nationally recognized course titled Legal Scholarship, which was designed to prepare future law teachers, and is the author of multiple articles published in leading law journals and books.
Professor Markovits teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust, law and economics, constitutional law and jurisprudence. He is the author of articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and elsewhere as well as the book Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and Constitutional Interpretation (NYU, 1998), Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency (Yale, 2008), and Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law (two vols.) (Springer, 2014). He created the Law School's nationally recognized course on "Legal Scholarship," designed to prepare future law teachers. He came to Texas from Stanford Law School in 1976.
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year-2023
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Article
Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy: A Selective Summary
Richard S. Markovits. “Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy: A Selective Summary.” In THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN, Page 551 (2023). -
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Some Comments on the Other Contributions to This Antitrust-Policy-Focused Issue
Richard S. Markovits. “Some Comments on the Other Contributions to This Antitrust-Policy-Focused Issue.” In 68 THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN, Page 657 (2023). -
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Thirteen Sets of Observations/Recommendations Pertinent to the DOJ/FTC (M&A) Guidelines
Richard S. Markovits. “Thirteen Sets of Observations/Recommendations Pertinent to the DOJ/FTC (M&A) Guidelines.” In 68 THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN, Page 318 (2023).
year-2022
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Book
Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy — Vol. II Mergers, Vertical Practices, Joint Ventures, Internal Growth, and U.S. and E.U. Law
Richard S. Markovits. Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy — Vol. II Mergers, Vertical Practices, Joint Ventures, Internal Growth, and U.S. and E.U. Law ( Springer, November 8, 2022).
year-2021
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Book
Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy - Vol. I Economic, Moral, and Legal Concepts and Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct
Richard S. Markovits. Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy - Vol. I Economic, Moral, and Legal Concepts and Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct ( Springer, October 19, 2021).
year-2020
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Book
WELFARE ECONOMICS AND SECOND-BEST THEORY: A THIRD-BEST-ECONOMICALLY-EFFICIENT DISTORTION-ANALYSIS PROTOCOL FOR ECONOMIC-EFFICIENCY PREDICTION
Richard S. Markovits. WELFARE ECONOMICS AND SECOND-BEST THEORY: A THIRD-BEST-ECONOMICALLY-EFFICIENT DISTORTION-ANALYSIS PROTOCOL FOR ECONOMIC-EFFICIENCY PREDICTION ( Springer, 2020).
year-2018
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Article
“Public Utility” Regulation: Some Economic and Moral Analyses
Richard S. Markovits. ““Public Utility” Regulation: Some Economic and Moral Analyses.” In 35 Yale Journal on Regulation, Page 875 (2018). View online.
year-2017
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Article
U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law as Written: Their Differences, Common Features, and Relative and Absolute Moral Desirability
Richard S. Markovits. “U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law as Written: Their Differences, Common Features, and Relative and Absolute Moral Desirability.” In 62 The Antitrust Bulletin, Page 514 (2017). View online.
year-2016
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Article
The General Theory of Second Best and Economic-Efficiency Analysis: The Theory, Its Negative Corollaries, the Appropriate Response to It, and a Coda on the Economic Efficiency of Reducing Poverty and Income/Wealth Inequality
Richard S. Markovits, The General Theory of Second Best and Economic-Efficiency Analysis: The Theory, Its Negative Corollaries, the Appropriate Response to It, and a Coda on the Economic Efficiency of Reducing Poverty and Income/Wealth Inequality [Symposium: Law and Socio-Economics], 49 Akron Law Review 437 (2016). -
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Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law: A Summary
Richard S. Markovits, Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law: A Summary, 61 Antitrust Bulletin 3 (2016). -
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Economics and Antitrust Law: A Comment on the Other Contributions to This Symposium
Richard S. Markovits, Economics and Antitrust Law: A Comment on the Other Contributions to This Symposium, 61 Antitrust Bulletin 198 (2016).
year-2014
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Book
Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law, Vol. II, Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Mergers, Vertical Practices, and Joint Ventures
Richard S. Markovits, Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law, Vol. II, Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Mergers, Vertical Practices, and Joint Ventures (Springer, 2014). -
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Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law, Vol. I, Basic Concepts and Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct
Richard S. Markovits, Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law, Vol. I, Basic Concepts and Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct (Springer, 2014).
year-2011
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Book Chapter
How American Legal Academics’ Positions on Economic-Efficiency Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Valid Legal Argument Disserve Law and Society Empirical Research
Richard S. Markovits, How American Legal Academics’ Positions on Economic-Efficiency Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Valid Legal Argument Disserve Law and Society Empirical Research in Law, Society, and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman (Robert W. Gordon & Morton J. Horwitz, eds.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
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Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, and the Economically Efficient Approach for Courts to Take in Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis and Related Critique of Landes and Posner's Classic Study
Richard S. Markovits, Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, and the Economically Efficient Approach for Courts to Take in Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis and Related Critique of Landes and Posner's Classic Study, 59 Buffalo Law Review 57 (2011). View Article
year-2010
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Article
The Limits to Simplifying the Application of U.S. Antitrust Law
Richard S. Markovits, The Limits to Simplifying the Application of U.S. Antitrust Law, 6 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 51 (2010).
year-2008
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Book
Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency
Richard S. Markovits, Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008).
year-2006
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Article
Liberalism and Tort Law: On the Content of the Corrective-Justice-Securing Tort Law of a Liberal, Rights-Based Society
Richard S. Markovits, Liberalism and Tort Law: On the Content of the Corrective-Justice-Securing Tort Law of a Liberal, Rights-Based Society, 2006 Illinois Law Review 243. -
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On the Economic Inefficiency of a Liberal-Corrective-Justice Securing Law of Torts
Richard S. Markovits, On the Economic Inefficiency of a Liberal-Corrective-Justice Securing Law of Torts, 2006 Illinois Law Review 525.
year-2005
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Article
On the Possibly-Predatory Character of Nonsystems-Rivalry Investments and Systems Rivalry: Definitional, Functional, and Legal Analyses
Richard S. Markovits, On the Possibly-Predatory Character of Nonsystems-Rivalry Investments and Systems Rivalry: Definitional, Functional, and Legal Analyses, 50 Antitrust Bulletin 1 (2005).