Robert Cooter quoted in The National Law Journal, June 4, 2012

In what some scholars consider the most important approach to understanding federalism and the Constitution in recent years, collective-action federalism is the brainchild of Neil Siegel of Duke Law School and Robert Cooter of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. … “In order to get people to consider an economic analysis of constitutional law, you have to get their attention. I think the title has proved effective in enabling people to see what we were about.”

Robert Cooter cited in Balkinization, March 19, 2012

One question in the healthcare litigation presently before the U.S. Supreme Court is how to characterize the exaction imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on individuals who fail to obtain health insurance…. In Not the Power to Destroy: A Theory of the Tax Power for a Court that Limits the Commerce Power … Robert Cooter of Berkeley Law and I develop a theory of the difference between a tax and a penalty for purposes of the tax power. We then apply the theory to the ACA’s exaction for non-insurance.