Language Model Interpretability and Empirical Legal Studies

Research correlating stringency in land-use regulation to low housing supply, high housing costs, and segregation relies on surveys of planners about...

This Article introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS), an expert-sourced measure of judicial traits that can locate nearly...

We live in a golden age of student surveillance. Some surveillance is old school: video cameras, school resource officers, and tip lines. Old-school...

A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday...

Cyber stalking involves repeated, often relentless targeting of someone with abuse. Death and rape threats may be part of a perpetrator’s playbook...

Fifty years ago, federal and state lawmakers called for the regulation of a criminal justice “databank” connecting federal, state, and local agencies...

Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...

This chapter provides an overview of computational text analysis techniques used to study judicial behavior and decision-making. As legal texts become...

Generative AI is already beginning to alter legal practice. If optimistic forecasts prove warranted, how might this technology transform judicial...

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local level are acquiring...

This article argues that the fact that an action will compound a prior injustice counts as a reason against doing the action. I call this reason The...

In an era characterized by inequalities of income and influence, political polarization, and the segregation of social spaces, the income tax...

Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...

The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...

As social scientists seek to communicate research about what works in policing to police executives, they overlook important players in determining...

Gender equality matters in the global public law academy for at least three reasons: the production of diverse scholarship, and substantive equality...