The Journal of Legal Studies

1974 - 2025

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Trump’s Lower Court Judges and Religion: An Initial Appraisal pp. 1 - 41: Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati and Eric A. Posner
Learning or Networking? The Causal Effect of Judges Sitting by Designation pp. 43 - 81: Chang-Ching Lin and Yun-chien Chang
Should Like Cases Be Decided Alike? A Formal Analysis of Formal Equality pp. 83 - 115: Benjamin B. Johnson and Richard Jordan
Courts’ Decisions, Cooperative Investments, and Incomplete Contracts pp. 117 - 164: Alessandro De Chiara
Modeling Fee Shifting with Computational Game Theory pp. 165 - 198: Michael Abramowicz
Informational Properties of Liability Regimes pp. 199 - 237: Claude Fluet and Murat C. Mungan
Deterrence by Insurance pp. 239 - 255: Roy Baharad

Expecting Corporate Prosociality pp. 267 - 296: Hajin Kim
Product Liability and Reasonable Product Use pp. 297 - 338: Florian Baumann and Alexander Rasch
Law without Hierarchy pp. 339 - 368: Joseph Warren
Installment Loans pp. 369 - 389: Carlie Malone and Paige Marta Skiba
The Economic Consequences of Hedge Fund Regulation: An Analysis of the Effect of the Dodd-Frank Act pp. 391 - 434: Fernán Restrepo
Subjective Beliefs about Contract Enforceability pp. 435 - 488: J.J. Prescott and Evan Starr
The Loan Market Response to Dropdown and Uptier Transactions pp. 489 - 526: Vincent S. J. Buccola and Greg Nini

Inconsistency on Multimember Courts pp. 1 - 20: Alan Miller and Shiran Rachmilevitch
“Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls”: Fiduciary Duties in Venture-Capital-Backed Start-Ups pp. 21 - 65: Sarath Sanga and Eric Talley
Self-Insuring against Liability Risk: Evidence from Physicians’ Home Values in States with Unlimited Homestead Exemptions pp. 67 - 114: Eric Helland, Anupam B. Jena, Dan P. Ly and Seth A. Seabury
Employers’ Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination pp. 115 - 158: Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr
The Law of Restitution for Mistaken Payments: An Economic Analysis pp. 159 - 207: Dhammika Dharmapala and Nuno Garoupa
Fines versus Damages: Experimental Evidence on Investments in Care pp. 209 - 236: Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe and Pascal Langenbach
Lost Profits and Unjust-Enrichment Damages for the Misappropriation of Trade Secrets pp. 237 - 265: Luigi Alberto Franzoni and Arun Kumar Kaushik

Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment on Access to Justice pp. 273 - 304: Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore
Misprioritized Information: A Theory of Manipulation pp. 305 - 344: Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Measuring the Countermajoritarian Nature of Supreme Court Decisions pp. 345 - 375: Eugenia Artabe and Alex Badas
A New Theory of Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration pp. 377 - 416: Yehonatan Givati and Yotam Kaplan
The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences pp. 417 - 443: Yonathan A. Arbel
Defamation with Bayesian Audiences pp. 445 - 483: Yonathan Arbel and Murat C. Mungan

Litigation with Inalienable Judgments pp. 1 - 50: Erik Hovenkamp and Steven C. Salop
Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic behind It pp. 51 - 81: Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
Does the Severity of Sanctions Influence Learning about Enforcement Policy? Experimental Evidence pp. 83 - 106: Tim Friehe, Pascal Langenbach and Murat C. Mungan
When Homemakers Are Compensated: The Effect of Homemaking Provisions on Spousal Time Allocation pp. 107 - 136: H. Crystal Wong
Regulating Product Return Policies: The Trade-off between Efficiency and Distribution pp. 137 - 191: Shmuel I. Becher, Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
Judgment-Contingent Penalties: Signaling in Negative-Expected-Value Suits pp. 193 - 239: Shay Lavie and Avraham Tabbach
Permitting Prohibitions pp. 241 - 271: Bernardo Guimaraes and Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Computational Complexity and Tort Deterrence pp. 249 - 288: Joshua Teitelbaum
Does the Threat of Overthrow Discipline the Elites? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment pp. 289 - 320: Konstantin Chatziathanasiou, Svenja Hippel and Michael Kurschilgen
Introduction: A Second Wave of Comparative Constitutional Studies pp. 321 - 328: Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
The Effect of Constitutional Gender Equality Clauses pp. 329 - 70: Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
Majority Nationalism Laws and the Equal Citizenship of Minorities: Experimental, Panel, and Cross-Sectional Evidence from Israel pp. 371 - 401: Netta Barak-Corren, Noam Gidron and Yuval Feldman
Migrant-Family Separation and Higher-Order Laws’ Diverging Normative Force pp. 403 - 426: Kevin L. Cope and Charles Crabtree
Aspirational Rules pp. 427 - 453: Adi Leibovitch and Alexander Stremitzer
Unconstitutional States of Emergency pp. 455 - 481: Christian Bjørnskov, Stefan Voigt and Mahdi Khesali
The Journal of Legal Studies at Fifty pp. v - v: William H. J. Hubbard and Edward R. Morrison

Compromising Accuracy to Encourage Regulatory Participation pp. 1 - 38: Scott Baker and Anup Malani
An Aggregation Theory of Character Evidence pp. 39 - 62: Hillel J. Bavli
Privacy and Information Avoidance: An Experiment on Data-Sharing Preferences pp. 63 - 92: Dan Svirsky
Third-Party Moral Hazard and the Problem of Insurance Externalities pp. 93 - 131: Gideon Parchomovsky and Peter Siegelman
Hard Cases Make Bad Law? A Theoretical Investigation pp. 133 - 175: Sepehr Shahshahani
Criminal Stereotypes of Muslim and Arab Americans and the Impact on Evaluations of Ambiguous Criminal Evidence pp. 177 - 208: Joseph J. Avery, DongWon Oh, Lauren Feldman, Reuven Cooper and Joel Cooper
The Exclusionary Rule Revisited pp. 209 - 248: Nuno Garoupa and Murat Mungan