jle-theory-model
Use when a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript needs a model of the legal rule — deterrence, liability, contracting, or regulation — to interpret estimates, generate testable predictions, or carry a theory contribution in the Chicago price-theory tradition. Calibrates how much theory belongs and where; it does not design the identification (jle-identification).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-theory-model --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Theory & Model of the Legal Rule (jle-theory-model) ## When to trigger - A referee asks "what is the economic mechanism / what model rationalizes this legal effect?" - A reduced-form effect of a rule is credible but its economic meaning (deterrence vs. incapacitation, price vs. quality) is ambiguous - You want a welfare statement about a legal rule, an optimal-penalty result, or a comparative static the raw estimate cannot deliver - The paper is theoretical and you need its predictions about a legal rule to be recognizable and testable, not decorative ## The JLE theory tradition JLE's theory is **price theory applied to legal rules** — Becker on crime (expected punishment = probability × severity), Coase on bargaining and entitlements, Calabresi/Posner on liability and least-cost avoidance, Stigler/Peltzman on regulation and capture, the litigation-selection logic of Priest–Klein. Theory earns its place when it **names the mechanism, maps a coefficient to a structural object, delivers a welfare or optimal-rule result, or generates a comparative static you then test**. JLE accepts genuinely theoretical papers, but even pure theory should speak about a *legal institution* a reader
- When to trigger
- The JLE theory tradition
- Modeling craft
- Canonical JLE modeling templates (reach for the closest)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- How much theory is too much for an empirical JLE paper
- Referee pushback mapped to the theory fix
- Output format
What does the jle-theory-model skill do?
Use when a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript needs a model of the legal rule — deterrence, liability, contracting, or regulation — to interpret estimates, generate testable predictions, or carry a theory contribution in the Chicago price-theory tradition. Calibrates how much theory belongs and where; it does not design the identification (jle-identification).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-theory-model --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.