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Use when the marginal contribution of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior law-and-economics work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (jle-identification) or the prose (jle-writing-style).

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# Literature Positioning (jle-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- A referee or co-author asks "what is new here relative to [the closest law-and-economics paper]?"
- The introduction cites Coase, Becker, Stigler, and Posner as scenery but never states the marginal addition
- You are unsure whether your contribution is a new *answer*, a new *legal source of variation*, a new *institution/jurisdiction*, a new *mechanism*, or a new *measure of a legal object*
- The paper risks reading as a re-run of a classic JLE result with newer data

## The JLE contribution bar

At JLE the contribution is judged as **a credibly identified (or rigorously modeled) answer to a law-and-economics question the field has not settled**, positioned against the *closest* prior work — including the foundational JLE canon the field already treats as established. Becker (crime/deterrence), Coase (social cost), Stigler/Peltzman (regulation/capture), Demsetz (property), Priest–Klein (litigation selection) are not papers you re-derive; they are the baseline you must add to. Name your contribution type, then position only against the work that threatens it.

| Contribution type | What "new" must mean at JLE | Positioning move |
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