Nota bene: I meant to do this survey of my previous work during my sabbatical last fall. Better late than never!

I began teaching Roman and Constitutional Law in 1998, travelled every summer (the law school where I taught had a summer study abroad program in Toledo, Spain), and eventually wrote up a handful of papers, including Deconstructing Darwin (2005); Domestic Violence, Strategic Behavior, and Ideological Rent-Seeking (2006); and The Most Senile Justice? (2007). Alas, most of my work during this first phase of my scholarly life (1998 to 2007), including two of the three papers mentioned above, went unpublished. Although I was reading and writing every single day, I did not like editing, so I published very little work during this time. But after discovering Thomas Schelling (pictured below) and his 1960 book The Strategy of Conflict by chance (circa 2007), I started to learn the nuts and bolts of game theory, build simple game theory models, and write up my results instead of publishing traditional law review articles. I will survey my game theory years (2008 to 2019) in my next post.