Although they often intercept, her paper was not an economics paper, it was a legal treatise. I think the novel portion was that she used modern economic theor

Although they often intercept, her paper was not an economics paper, it was a legal treatise. I think the novel portion was that she used modern economic theory to create a legal framework that could be used for enforcement. That said, that and one other paper got her tenure (not just tenure track) at Columbia Law.