Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...
In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected...
During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...
The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...
Twenty-first-century politics has inspired a new mode of interstate rivalries and reprisals consisting not of the tariffs that plagued the Founding...
We apply a dynamic influence model to the opinions of the U.S. federal courts to examine the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in influencing the...
An upcoming Supreme Court case on Article III standing and disability presents critical questions about the future of litigation that promotes...
Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...
This Article introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS), an expert-sourced measure of judicial traits that can locate nearly...
Contract terms that improve or reduce the likelihood of repayment of a debt should impact its price. That’s basic economics. But what about a contract...
King John and the barons negotiated the Magna Carta in 1215. Three thousand years earlier, Hammurabi enacted his famous code. Law is an ancient...
This article discusses the links between climate and debt sustainability by focusing on how climate mitigation and adaptation are paid for, and who...
Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create...
I’m writing about a book of mine that may be of interest to the election law community. The title is Public Law and Economics, my coauthor is Robert...
The process of law reform in the United States is distributed across many institutions, public and private. This chapter concentrates on the role of...
This Article documents and seeks to explain a significant shift in how we construct natural gas pipelines in the United States. Natural gas pipelines...
This comprehensive textbook applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching in...
