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jle-writing-style
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript so the legal institution and the design land early, in University of Chicago Press house style with Chicago author-date citations. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or the exhibits.
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# Writing Style (jle-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- Identification and robustness are settled and the paper needs its final exposition pass
- The introduction buries the legal question and the effect under institutional or doctrinal setup
- The abstract does not state the headline effect of the rule with its uncertainty
- The prose reads either like a generic economics paper that forgot the law, or like a law-review article that forgot the economics
## The JLE introduction arc
JLE prose is **plain, direct, and institution-aware**. The introduction should follow the law-and-economics arc: **the legal/regulatory question → why the institution makes the answer matter → why naive estimates fail → the legal source of variation that solves it → the headline effect of the rule with a standard error → the mechanism (deterrence/price/quality) → the legal or policy lesson → brief roadmap.** A reader who is an economist but not a lawyer should grasp the rule and the answer in the first paragraph; the identification should be legible by the end of the second. Get the law right without writing like a law review: explain the rule's mechanics in economists' terms.
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