Bringing Statistics into the Courtroom: Talking to Real People about Forensic Statistics

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

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...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

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

Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...

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

The Law of the Police, Second Edition provides materials and analysis for law school classes on policing and the law. It offers a resource for...

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

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

A crucial first step in addressing intimate-image abuse is its proper conceptualization. Intimate-image abuse amounts to a violation of intimate...

Donald J. Trump appointed 234 federal judges in his first term. Trump, as is his wont, claims, with an inflated number, that he appointed a record...

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...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

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

Legal ethicists, advocacy groups, and politicians have called for greater restrictions on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) when parties...