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In 1999 Cooter joined two U.C. Berkeley economics professors, Aaron Edlin and
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Cooter was born on May 2, 1945. He is married and has three grown children with his wife Blair. Cooter graduated from
Swarthmore College in 1967 and attended Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar from 1967–69, graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He earned a Ph.D. in
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Robert D. Cooter. "Maturing into Normal
Science: The Effect of Empirical Legal Studies on Law and Economics," University of Illinois Law Review, October 2011, Number 5, page 1475.
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Michael D. Gilbert. "A Theory of Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule" A Theory of Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule 110 (2010): 687.
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Broughman. "Charity and Information: Correcting the Failure of a Disjunctive Social Norm" Michigan Journal of Law Reform 43 (2010): 871.
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Robert D. Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer. Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the
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