“…Others at Michigan State University who continue to contribute to this tradition are Harry Trebing, whose works exhibit many of the same concerns as Hale with regard to the analysis of regulation and public utilities (Trebing, 1976(Trebing, , 1989Trebing and Estabrooks, 1993); and Robert A. Solo, much of whose work focuses on monopoly regulation and institutional change (Solo, 1967(Solo, , 1974(Solo, , 1982. Former students of Samuels and Schmid who have gone on to focus their research on the relations between legal (or governmental) and economic processes rather than the application of microeconomic theory to the law, include Steven G. Medema and Nicholas Mercuro writing individually and together on topics including the Coase theorem (Medema, 1994(Medema, , 1996aMedema and Zerbe, 1997), the policy implications of Coasean economics (Medema and Samuels, 1997), the commonalities between the work of the Institutionalists and the work of Coase (Medema, 1996b), law, economics and public policy (Mercuro and Ryan, 1984), the comparative institutional approach to law and economics (Mercuro, 1989b) and on the various schools of thought comprising law and economics, including the institutionalist school (Mercuro, 1989a;Medema, 1995, 1997); Philip Wandschneider (1984 on water rights; and Josef Broder (1981Broder ( , 1983 on the judicial process. Other examples of the institutional approach to law and economics can be found in Bromley (1989), Carter (1985), Kanal (1985), Liebhafsky (1987), Ostrom (1986), Parsons (1974), and Seidman (1973).…”