The Varieties of Motivation and the Problem of Supply: A Reply to Professor Ellickson

When the author read Order Without Law back in his first year of law school, it never occurred to him that he would one day be part of a conversation with the author of that book about private ordering in the world of women's roller derby. Happily, though, it turns out that his imagination was limited, as evinced by Professor Robert Ellickson's thoughtful critique, How Norm Entrepreneurs and Membership Associations Contribute to Private Ordering: A Response to Fagundes, written in response to his Texas Law Review article about intellectual property norms governing roller derby pseudonyms. Among the many reasons that Ellickson's response is valuable is that it has allowed him to further elaborate the story of derby-name regulation in two ways. First, it highlighted places where he could have pushed the analysis of the Master Roster further. And second, it created the opportunity to explore some of those issues in this space.