Anthony Ogus

Anthony Ian Ogus (1945 - 10 March 2026) was an emeritus professor of law at the University of Manchester and the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a pre-eminent scholar in the field of regulation and economic analysis of law. He also wrote and lectured on opera, and recorded English literature for LibriVox.

Publications Books Law of Damages (1973) with E Barendt and N Wikeley, Law of Social Security (1st edn 1978, 5th edn 2002) Readings in the Economics of Law and Regulation (1984, with Veljanovski) Regulation: Legal Form and Economic Theory (Clarendon 1994, reprinted 2004) Controlling the Regulators (1998, with Froud and others) Regulation, Economics and the Law (2001) Économie du droit: le cas francais (2002, with Faure) Costs and Cautionary Tales: Economic Insights for the Law (2006) joint winner of Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize 2007 Travels with my Opera Glasses (2013)

Articles 'What Legal Scholars Can Learn From Law and Economics' (2004) 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 383–402 'The Economic Base of Legal Culture: Networks and Monopolization' (2002) 22 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 419–434 with N Garoupa, 'A Strategic Interpretation of Legal Transplants' (2006) 36(2) Journal of Legal Studies 'The Paradoxes of Legal Paternalism and How to Resolve Them' (2010) 30 Legal Studies 61–73 'Rethinking Self-Regulation' (1995) 15 OJLS 97–108 'Competition between National Legal Systems: A Contribution of Economic Analysis to Comparative Law' (1999) 48 ICLQ 405–418