Law & Economics
Portrait of Robert C. Ellickson
Scholar portraitSource: Yale Law School

Ellickson

Robert C. Ellickson

Property and law-and-economics scholar of social norms and informal order

property lawsocial normsinformal governance

Official Source Note

Yale Law School lists Ellickson as Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Property and Urban Law and describes his research on land use, land tenure, social norms, households, community associations, and cities.

Ellickson is included because Order Without Law made informal norms and decentralized dispute resolution central to empirical law-and-economics research on property and social order.

Source: Yale Law School

Relevance to the Archive

Ellickson helps researchers test when parties order conduct through norms and repeat relationships rather than formal adjudication, and when informal governance becomes exclusionary or difficult to scale.

Representative Contributions

  • Order Without Law (1991)
  • Property in Land (1993)
  • The Household (2008)

Works Included Here