Research

Link to SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

Work in Progress

1. LawtoData: An Empirical Legal Research Automator

2. The Behavioural Economics of Inheritance Litigation (funded by the Australian Research Council)

3. Superannuation as Inheritance (with Natalie Silver; funded by the Australian Research Council)

4. Behavioral Contest Success Functions with Lessons for Settlement and Prospect Theory (with José A Rodrigues-Neto; videos: Introduction, Model, Application, Spillovers)

5. Portfolio Management under Judicial Hindsight Bias (with José A Rodrigues-Neto)

6. Remedying Judicial Hindsight Bias (with José A Rodrigues-Neto)

7. Tullock Contests with Incomplete Information and Spillovers (with José A Rodrigues-Neto)

8. Restitution for Wrongs: Beyond Internalization of Externalities

Full-length Original Articles

1. Ben Chen, 'Socially Optimal Ex-ante Adjudication' (2025) American Law and Economics Review (forthcoming)

2. Ben Chen and José A Rodrigues-Neto, 'The Interaction of Emotions and Cost-Shifting Rules in Civil Litigation' (2023) 75 Economic Theory 841–885

3. Ben Chen and Natalie Silver, 'Undue Influence and Will Substitutes: Vitiating Transactions that Blur the Boundaries between Life and Death' (2022) 85(2) Modern Law Review 295–325

4. Ben Chen and Michael Legg, 'An Economic Perspective on Costs in Australian Class Actions' (2022) 45(3) Melbourne University Law Review 950–995

5. Ben Chen, 'Elder Financial Abuse: Capacity Law and Economics' (2021) 106 Cornell Law Review 1457–1538

6. Ben Chen, 'Family Fiduciaries in the Protective Jurisdiction' (2020) 44(1) Melbourne University Law Review 55–97

7. Ben Chen, 'Elder Financial Abuse: Fiduciary Law and Economics' (2020) 34 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy  307–360

8. Ben Chen, ‘Equitable Relief in Transnational Intellectual Property Disputes’ (2018) 12 Journal of Equity 151–167

9. Ben Chen, 'Historical Foundations of Choice of Law in Fiduciary Obligations' (2014) 10 Journal of Private International Law 171–203

10. Ben Chen, 'Diminution and Secularisation of Oaths in Australian Courts' (2013) 37 Australian Bar Review 291–306

Edited Book

1. Barbara McDonald, Ben Chen and Jeffrey Gordon (eds), Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason (Federation Press 2022)

Book Chapters

1. Ben Chen and Michael Legg, ‘The Law and Economics of Australian Class Actions’ in Michael Legg and James Metzger (eds), The Australian Class Action: A 30 Year Perspective (Federation Press 2023)

2. Ben Chen, 'Appropriate Uses of Law and Economics in the Judicial Process: Illustrated by an Incomplete Contracts Perspective on Promissory Estoppel in Australian Law' in Barbara McDonald, Ben Chen and Jeffrey Gordon (eds), Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason (Federation Press 2022)

3. Elizabeth S Scott and Ben Chen, 'Fiduciary Principles in Family Law' in Evan J Criddle, Paul B Miller and Robert H Sitkoff (eds),  Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press 2019)

4. Ben Chen and Jeff Gordon, 'Interpretive Formalism in the Law of Obligations: Thirty Years After Form and Substance' in Andrew Robertson and James Goudkamp (eds), Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations (Hart Publishing 2019) (Hart Publishing Prize runner-up)

Other Work

1. Ben Chen, 'Equity' in Ray Finkelstein and David Hamer (eds), LexisNexis Concise Australia Legal Dictionary (6th ed, LexisNexis 2020)

2. Ben Chen, 'Review: Issues in Law and Economics, by Harold Winter (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL, 2017), pp. 233' (2018) 94 Economic Record 101–102

3. Kath Hall and Ben Chen, ‘The High Court Accepts “Agreed Penalties” in Civil Penalty Cases’ ( 2016) 68(3) Governance Directions 153–155