Law Reviews

1900-1939

  • 1919 – LR – The Delivery of A Life-Insurance Policy, by Edwin W. Patterson – 26p

1940s

  • 1943 – LR – Contracts of Adhesion Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract, by Friedrich Kessler – 15p
  • 1946 – LR – Regulation of the Insurance Business and Public Law No. 15, by Herbert H. Naujoks – 22p 
  • 1948 – LR – Statutory Regulation of Life Insurance Investment, by W. Page Keeton – ??? – 21p 

1950s

  • 1950 – LR – The Special Nature of the Insurance Contract: A Few Suggestion for Further Study, by Franklin M. Schultz – 15p
  • 1950 – LR – The Doctrine of Concealment: A Remnant in the Law of Insurance, by Bertram Harnett – 24p 
  • 1951 – LR – The Bar and the Unauthorized The Bar and the Unauthorized  Practice of Law: A Survey, Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 26: Iss. 4, Article 7 – 13p
  • 1951 – LR – LISA Insurance Savings or Both, by Harry P. Glassman – 7p
  • 1952 – LR – Legal Framework, Trends, And Developments In Investment Practices Of Life Insurance Companies, by Haughton Bell and Harold G. Fraine – 41p
  • 1953 – LR – The Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act and Wisconsin Law, by Darrell L. Peck – 10p
  • 1952 – LR – Legal Framework, Trends, and Developments in Investment Practices of Life Insurance Companies, by Haughton Bell and Harold G. Fraine – 41p
  • 1958 – LR – Life Insurance and Federal Taxes, by Daniel Candee Knickerbocker Jr. – 10p

1960s

  • 1961 – LR – The Purpose of Insurance Regulation: A Preliminary Inquiry in the Theory of Insurance Law, by Spencer L. Kimball – 55p
  • 1965 – LR – Treatment of Tax-Exempt Interests in the Taxation of Life Insurance Companies, by Michael M. Boone – 10p
  • 1966 – LR – The Unauthorized Practice of Law by Laymen and Lay Associations, by Loyd P. Derby – 34p 
  • 1967 – LR – The Anomalous Position of the Insurance Agent An Invitation to Schizophrenia, by Robert M. Morrison – 11p 
  • 1969 – LR – Abuses in the Replacement of Life Insurance, by Harold W. Baird, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company – 33p 
  • 1969 – LR – Competition as a Means of Regulating Insurance, by Jason C. Blackford – 28p 
  • 1969 – LR – Insurance Mergers and the Clayton Act, Yale –14p
  • 1969 – LR – Life Insurance as a Personal Savings Vehicle, by Vane B. Lucas, American College of Life Underwriters – 21p 
  • 1969 – LR – Life Insurance Companies Their Promotion and Regulation, By Jon S. Hanson and Duncan R. Farney – 156p 
  • 1969 – LR – Life Insurance Prices, by Joseph M. Belth, Indiana University Graduate School of Business – 15p

1970s

  • 1970 – LR – The Life Insurance Law in North Dakota, by John A. Zuger – 49p
  • 1971 – LR – Section 7 of theClayton Act as a Tool to Curtail Conglomerate Acquisitions of Insurance Companies, by Roland W. Johnson – 44p
  • 1972 – LR – Insurance Company Involvement in the Marketing of Equity Products, by Paul R. Huard – 30p
  • 1974 – LR – Duty to Read A Changing Concept, by John D. Calamari – 23p 
  • 1976 – LR – Marketing Mutual Funds and Individual Life Insurance, by John P. Freeman – 125p
  • 1976 – LR – The McCarran-Ferguson Act: A Time for Procompetitive Reform, by Laurence M. Hamric – 39p
  • 1977 – LR – Life Insurance and the Consumer At What Price Disclosure, by John Newell, Drake Law Review – 18p 
  • 1977 – LR – The Impact of Increased State Regulation of Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions on on Federal Antimerger Regulation, by Ronald A. Jacks – 14p

1980s

  • 1980 – LR – Life Insurance Conditional Receipts And Judicial Intervention, by Arnold P. Anderson – 19p
  • 1980 – LR – Life Insurance Cost Disclosure: A Decade Just Completed, by John P. Meyerholz, The Forum (Section of Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law, American Bar Association), Vol. 15, No. 5 (Summer 1980), p889-913
  • 1982 – LR – Redefining Insurance: Distinguishing Between Life Insurance and Investment Under Volatile Inflation, Yale – 19p 
  • 1982 – LR – RICO Civil Fraud Action in Context: Reflections on Bennett v. Berg, by G. Robert Blakey – 114p
  • 1983 – LR – Personal Financial and Tax Planning with Insurance Products and Comparable Investments, by William B. Harman Jr. – 11p 
  • 1984 – LR – Federal Taxation of Life Insurance Companies: The Evolution of a Tax Law Responding to Change – 51p
  • 1985-1986 – LR – An Examination of the 1984 Requirement That All Insurance Policies Must Qualify as Integrated Contracts Pursuant to State Law, by James R. Burkhard – 52p
  • 1985 – LR – Federal Income Taxation of Life Insurance Products after the Tax Reform Act of 1984 – 21p
  • 1985 – LR – Tax Reform During President Reagan’s First Four Years: A Selective Bibliography, By Michael Chiorazzi – 10p
  • 1985 – LR – TEFRA’s Response to Short-term Abuses of Insurance Annuity Policies – 20p 
  • 1985 – LR – The Unconstitutionality of State Insurance Takeover Statutes: An Unfortunate but Not Necessairly Final Result, by John M. Sheffey – 61p
  • 1986 – LR – Reasonable Expectations: Seeking A Principled Application, by William A. Mayhew – 31p 
  • 1988 – LR – Reflections on the Meaning of Life: An Analysis of Section 7702 and the Taxation of Cash Value Life Insurance, by Andrew Pike – 98p
  • 1988 – LR – The Insurance “Crisis”: Reality or Myth? A Plaintiffs’ Lawyer’s Perspective, by Robert L. Habush – 11p

1990s

  • 1990 – LR – Dual Banking and State Bank Insurance Powers: Diversifying Financial Services Through the Back Door, by Michael E. Schrader – 21p
    • This conclusion is based on an analysis of Federal Reserve Board orders involving applications by Citicorp 16 and Merchants National Corp. 17 to engage in insurance activities through state-chartered banks, as well as from an overview of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeal’s AMBAC decision and the Federal Reserve Board’s proposed regulatory response.19
  • 1991 – LR – Judicial Rationales in Insurance Law: Dusting Off the Formal for the Function, by Peter Nash Swisher – 39p
  • 1992 – LR – Banking and Insurance – Should Ever the Twain Meet?, by Emeric Fischer – 101p
    • The huge amount of resource material furnished by Gary E. Hughes, Chief Counsel, Securities of the American Council of Life Insurance has made this study far more meaningful.
  • 1994 – LR – Constructing the Insurance Relationship: Sales Stories, Claims Stories, and Insurance Contract Damages, by Tom Baker – 41p
    • …one way to explain the obligations that exist within the insurance relationship is through stories.  I tell stories when I teach insurance. Lawyers tell stories about insurance to judges and juries. Judges tell stories about insurance in their opinions. And insurance companies tell stories to consumers and claimants. 
  • 1996 – LR – Judicial Interpretations of Insurance Contract Disputes – 95p 
  • 1996 – LR – Derivative Actions by Policyholders on Behalf of Mutual Insurance Companies, by Theodore Allegaert – 36p
  • 1996 – LR – Punitive Damages Reform: The Case of Alabama, by George L. Priest – 17p
    • ⇒  27. Gallant v. Prudential Life Ins. Co., Barbour County, AL, CY·93-S0 (1994) 
    • ⇒  The expert estimated that the verdict reduced dividends to every Alabama policyholder (Prudential is a mutual carrier) by $323.
  • 1999 – LR – Insurance Regulation in the United States: Regulatory Federalism and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, by Susan Randall – 77p

2000s

  • 2000 – LR – After Fabe: Applying the Pireno Definition of “Business of Insurance” in First-Clause McCarran-Ferguson Act Cases, by Peter B. Steffen – 27p
  • 2000 – LR – A Realistic Consensus Approach to the Insurance Law Doctrine of Reasonable Expectations, by Peter N. Swisher, University of Richmond – 52p 
  • 2000 – LR – Deceptive Trade Practices – Consumer Protection Act, by A. Michael Ferrill and Leslie Sara Hyman – 35p
  • 2002 – LR – My Customer’s Keeper: The Search for a Universal Suitability Standard in the Sale of Life Insurance, by Richard J. Wirth, Western New England Law Review – 51p
  • 2004 – LR – Workable Competition and the Life Insurance Market: A Quantitative Analysis, by Andrew W. Bacdayan, Robert S. Elliott, and Robert C. Jone – 12p
  • 2005 – AP – Beating the ‘Wrap’: The Agency Effort to Control Wraparound Insurance Tax Shelters, by Charlene Luke – 73p
  • 2005 – ABA – Liability Issues in the Sale of Life Insurance, by Douglas R. Richmond – 34p
  • 2006 – LR – Contra Proferentem: The Allure of Ambiguous Boiletplate, by Michelle E. Boardman – 25p
  • 2006 – LR – The Report of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform: A Critical Assessment and a Proposal, by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah – 36p-ssrn.com-link
  • 2007 – LR – Half-Truths, Whole Lies, & the Duty of Disclosure in Insurance Law, by Enrique R. Schaerer – 29p

2010s

  • 2010 – LR – Against Insurance Rescission, by Brian Barnes – 38p
  • 2010 – LR – The Role of Trust in Financial Regulation, by Ronald J. Colombo – 27p
  • 2010 – LR – Rating Dependent Regulation of Insurance, by John Patrick Hunt, Connecticut Law Journal – p101-186p – 303p
  • 2011 – LR – Betting On The Lives Of Strangers: Life Settlements, STOLI, and Securitization, by Susan Lorde Martin – 47p
  • 2011 – LR – The Failure of Mandated Disclosures, by Omri Ben-Shahar – 103p 
  • 2013 – LR – Four Conceptions of Insurance, by Kenneth S. Abraham – 46p
  • 2013 – LR – Behavioral Economics and Insurance Law: The Importance of Equilibrium Analysis, by Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman – 28p
  • 2013 – LR – Causation, remoteness, scope of duty and the Rubenstein decision – Rubenstein vs. HSBC, by Kee Yang Low – 10p
  • 2013 – LR – Development in Banking and Financial Law: 2009-2010, The Shadow Financial System – 105p
  • 2013 – LR – Suitability and Non-Maleficence: A Proposal for Insurance Producer Regulatory Reform, by Mark Franke – 35p
  • 2013 – LR – The Financial Stability Board: The New Politics of International Financial Regulation, by Stavros Gadninis – 19p
  • 2014 – LR – Regulating Systemic Risk in Insurance, by Daniel Schwarcz and Steven L. Schwarcz – 73p
  • 2015 – LR – Judicial Deregulation of Consumer Markets, by Max N. Helveston – 45p
  • 2015 – LR – Systemic Risk Oversight and the Shifting Balance of State and Federal Authority over Insurance, by Patricia A. McCoy – 56p-ssrn.com-link
  • 2017 – LR – Coverage Information in Insurance Law, by Daniel Schwarcz – 72p
  • 2018 – LR – Is US Insurance Regulation Unconstitutional?, by Daniel Schwarcz – 66p
  • 2019 – LR – Amway Apostles for Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, and the Remaking of the American Economy, 1959-2009, by Davor Mondom – 389p
  • 2019 – LR – The Butterfly Effect In Interpreting Insurance Policies, by Christopher C. French – 21p
    • When a court interprets a standard form contract, the court’s interpretation of the language impacts all of the entities who are using, or will be using, the contractual language at issue, not just the parties in the case.2
      • The court’s interpretation also impacts how other courts will interpret the same language even if the courts are in different jurisdictions.
      • Because the drafters of standardized contract language often understand the far-reaching impact of courts’ interpretations, they respond to the courts’ interpretations of their language when drafting or redrafting standardized contracts.

2020s

  • 2020 – LR – The Simplicity In Modernizing Financial Disclosure, by Tyler Jacobs – 31p
  • 2022 – LR – Racial Discrimination in Life Insurance, by William G. Gale, Kyle D. Logue, Nora Cahill, Rachel Gu, Swati Joshi – 34p
  • 2020 – LR – Thomas v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: Semantics, Fiduciary Duty, and an Outdated Distinction, by Jeremy Liles – 21p
  • 2023 – LR – A Matter of High Interest: How a Quiet Change to an Actuarial Assumption Turbocharges the Life Insurance Tax Shelter, by Andrew Granato – 71p