Is the common law efficient? Richard Posner, among many others, has argued that it is, perhaps even without judges ever themselves focusing on that goal. Daniel Sokol joins us to discuss how understanding law as a platform, like modular and open-source software platforms, helps to see how some areas of the law might indeed become more efficient over time while others might not.
Daniel Sokol's faculty profile (https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/d-daniel-sokol) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=362604)
Daniel Sokol, Rethinking the Efficiency of the Common Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3328025)
Special Guest: Daniel Sokol.