Perspectives or Misperceptions? Why Better Land-Use Data Are Critical to Housing Policy Debates

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

Cities have been largely absent from the theory and legal doctrine of federalism, especially in the United States, where federalism is understood to...

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

Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...

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...

On Aug. 14, a Montana district court released a groundbreaking decision for climate change activists. In Held v. Montana, the court announced that...

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 1968 Fair Housing Act required local government recipients of federal money to take meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH...

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...

Rural America, as has been well documented, faces many challenges. Businesses and people are migrating to more urban and suburban regions. The...

William Blackstone famously expressed the view that convicting the innocent constitutes a much more serious error than acquitting the guilty. This...

The issue of state separation of powers generally is not one that the federal courts have had much occasion to address. Recent issues have arisen...

A key question in the academic and policy debates over the optimal architecture for sovereign debt has long been whether sovereigns should be given...