Selection Bias and Causal Inference in Empirical Studies of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Law school clinics are integral to legal education, offering students practical experience while serving clients in need and affecting the law more...

Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...

Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who were recently...

Citation rankings have emerged as a popular approach to ranking the scholarly impact of law faculties. This paper develops a statistical approach for...

Annotation and classification of legal text are central components of empirical legal research. Traditionally, these tasks are often delegated to...

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

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of US political scientists, a new generation of...

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

Moore v. United States raises the question whether unrealized gains, such as an increase in property value or a stock portfolio, constitute “incomes...

Judicial reform efforts aimed at rectifying historical gender and racial inequalities understandably focus on increasing the number of women and...

Federal administrative agencies are one of the primary policymaking venues in the United States. One of the core features of U.S. administrative...

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...

Whether constitution-making should be constrained has long been debated, but little is known about whether it is possible. We make several...

National constitutions codify provisions on a wide range of topics, ranging from presidential term limits to the country’s flag. But are all...

Computational analysis techniques are transforming empirical legal scholarship. Two paradigms have emerged: law-as-code, which seeks to represent...

The Supreme Court has explicitly linked the concept of stare decisis to the protection of judicial legitimacy. In Dobbs, Justice Alito's opinion set...

Building upon the media participation hypothesis, this study examines the relationship between creative and consumptive media use during two pivotal...