The Journal of Legal Studies

1974 - 2026

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A (Plea) Offer You Can Refuse pp. 277 - 316: David S. Abrams, Viet Nguyen, Aurélie Ouss and Julia Reinhold
Charging Leniency and Federal Sentences pp. 317 - 364: Stephanie Holmes Didwania
The Reasons Highest Courts Give: England, France, Germany: 1880–89 and 2007–16 pp. 365 - 395: Holger Spamann, Jasper Kunstreich, Markus Lieberknecht, Heinrich Nemeczek and Stefan Vogenauer
Is the German Constitutional Court Partisan? pp. 397 - 432: Christoph Engel
Digital Markets and Hidden Noncompliance pp. 433 - 461: Amit Zac, Stefan Bechtold, Pablo Wey, David Rodríguez and Jose M. Del Alamo
Differentiation through Legal Uncertainty pp. 463 - 510: Ryan Bubb and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Color Helps Consumers Notice and Understand Contract Terms pp. 511 - 544: Alessandro Romano, Amanda Rose and Chiara Sotis

Punishment Menus pp. 1 - 27: Mauricio Guim Alfago, Jonathan Klick and Murat C. Mungan
On the Law of the Household: The Principles Used by Parents in Disciplining Their Children pp. 29 - 81: Steven Shavell
Standardization and Innovation in Venture Capital Contracting: Evidence from Startup Company Charters pp. 83 - 128: Robert Bartlett
Behavior-Based Price Discrimination and Data Protection in the Age of Algorithms pp. 129 - 170: Haggai Porat
Forms of Commitment: Comparing Written and Verbal Consent in Three Psychological Experiments pp. 171 - 205: Roseanna Sommers and Vanessa K. Bohns
Reducing Sympathy Bias: The Impact of Statutory Interpretation Methods pp. 207 - 236: Ori Katz
Live Broadcasting the Courtroom: A Field Experiment Using Real Trials pp. 237 - 276: John Zhuang Liu and Yingmao Tang

Does Legality Produce Political Legitimacy? An Experimental Approach pp. 257 - 285: Yiqin Fu, Yiqing Xu and Taisu Zhang
The Judging Game pp. 287 - 356: Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
Cash Substitution and Deferred Consumption as Data-Breach Harms pp. 357 - 412: Lisa Yao Liu and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Empty Reasons? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Effect of Public Reasoning Requirements pp. 413 - 452: Edward H. Stiglitz
Preventing Class-Action Sellouts pp. 453 - 489: Ittai Paldor, Yuval Procaccia and Eyal Winter
The Political Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Court Mandates to Law Enforcement Agencies pp. 491 - 517: Abhay Aneja and Jacob M. Grumbach
Extension: A Tale of Two Studies: Revisiting the Unintended Effects of Staggered Legal Changes pp. 519 - 575: Stéphane Mechoulan, Juan Pantano and Isaac Rosenthal

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