The Journal of Legal Studies

1974 - 2026

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Price and Prejudice: An Empirical Test of Financial Incentives, Altruism, and Racial Bias pp. 245 - 274: Kristen Underhill
Deterrence, Contagion, and Legitimacy in Anticorruption Policy Making: An Experimental Analysis pp. 275 - 305: Amadou Boly, Robert Gillanders and Topi Miettinen
Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types: Theory and Evidence pp. 307 - 339: Yehonatan Givati
Conforming against Expectations: The Formalism of Nonlawyers at the World Trade Organization pp. 341 - 375: Julian Nyarko and Jerome Hsiang
Policy Disagreement and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the 1937 Court-Packing Plan pp. 377 - 408: Alex Badas
Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships pp. 409 - 440: Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan, S. Eric Reinhart and Glen Taksler
Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens pp. 441 - 473: Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

The Insignificance of Clear-Day Poison Pills pp. 1 - 44: Emiliano M. Catan
Constitutional Folk Theories as a Guide to Constitutional Values? The Case of the Legislative Veto pp. 45 - 79: Edward H. Stiglitz
Active Firms and Active Shareholders: Corporate Political Activity and Shareholder Proposals pp. 81 - 116: Geeyoung Min and Hye Young You
Rent Seeking and Bias in Appeals Systems pp. 117 - 157: Tim Friehe and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Costly Pretrial Agreements pp. 159 - 188: Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli and Giovanni Immordino
To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement pp. 189 - 216: Michael Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann and Alexander Tabarrok
Follow the Leader? Testing for the Internalization of Law pp. 217 - 244: Shaun Larcom, Luca Panzone and Timothy Swanson

Optimal Design of Guest Worker Programs: An Introduction pp. S1 - S4: Adam S. Chilton, Tom Ginsburg and Eric A. Posner
Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf pp. S5 - S44: Michael Clemens
Why Countries Sign Bilateral Labor Agreements pp. S45 - S88: Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner
Labor Immigration Policies in High-Income Countries: Variations across Political Regimes and Varieties of Capitalism pp. S89 - S127: Martin Ruhs
Reflections on the Role of Law in the Gulf Migration System pp. S129 - S147: Andrew Gardner
On the Rights of Temporary Migrants pp. S149 - S168: Christian Barry and Luara Ferracioli
Guest Worker Programs and Reasonable, Feasible Cosmopolitanism pp. S169 - S194: Richard Arneson
A Property Rights Approach to Temporary Work Visas pp. S195 - S227: Alessandra Casella and Adam B. Cox
Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening pp. S229 - S245: Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
Global Reputation for Guest Workers pp. S247 - S269: Moran Sadeh

Copyright Protection and Cumulative Creation: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Music pp. 235 - 268: Stephanie Holmes Didwania
Judicial Effort and the Appeals System: Theory and Experiment pp. 269 - 294: Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
Legal Centralization: A Tocquevillian View pp. 295 - 323: Bertrand Crettez, Bruno Deffains and Olivier Musy
Tailoring Negligence Standards to Accident Records pp. 325 - 348: Alice Guerra and Tobias Hlobil
Estimating the Effect of Leisure on Judicial Performance pp. 349 - 390: Tom S. Clark, Benjamin G. Engst and Jeffrey K. Staton
On the Perils of Commitment to Punishment when Criminals Are Strategic pp. 391 - 418: Shaun Larcom and Mare Sarr
The Systems Fallacy: A Genealogy and Critique of Public Policy and Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 419 - 447: Bernard E. Harcourt

The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity pp. 1 - 43: Adam Bonica, Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema and Maya Sen
Reputation and Litigation: Why Costly Legal Sanctions Can Work Better than Reputational Sanctions pp. 45 - 82: Scott Baker and Albert H. Choi
Does Reason Writing Reduce Decision Bias? Experimental Evidence from Judges in China pp. 83 - 118: Zhuang Liu
What Drives Bankruptcy Forum Shopping? Evidence from Market Data pp. 119 - 149: Jared A. Ellias
Detection and Correction of Case-Publication Bias pp. 151 - 180: Edward K. Cheng
In-Kind Transfers and the Law of Torts pp. 181 - 207: Assaf Jacob, Alon Klement and Yuval Procaccia
Improved Statistical Methods for the Calculation of Damages in Discrimination Lawsuits pp. 209 - 234: Scott Susin and Ioan Voicu

The Inevitability and Ubiquity of Cycling in All Feasible Legal Regimes: A Formal Proof pp. 237 - 280: Leo Katz and Alvaro Sandroni
Harmful, Harmless, and Beneficial Uncertainty in Law pp. 281 - 307: Scott Baker and Alex Raskolnikov
Discretionary Disenfranchisement: The Case of Legal Financial Obligations pp. 309 - 338: Marc Meredith and Michael Morse
Shared Ownership of Intangible Property Rights: The Case of Patent Coassignments pp. 339 - 369: Andrea Fosfuri, Christian Helmers and Catherine Roux
Affiliation Bias in Arbitration: An Experimental Approach pp. 371 - 398: Sergio Puig and Anton Strezhnev
Stretch It but Don't Break It: The Hidden Cost of Contract Framing pp. 399 - 426: Richard R. W. Brooks, Alexander Stremitzer and Stephan Tontrup
Patient Patents: Can Certain Types of Patent Litigation Be Beneficially Delayed? pp. 427 - 448: Doug Lichtman

You Are in Charge: Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a Judicial Office pp. 1 - 50: Christoph Engel and Lilia Zhurakhovska
After the Override: An Empirical Analysis of Shadow Precedent pp. 51 - 92: Brian J. Broughman and Deborah A. Widiss
Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes pp. 93 - 128: David Bjerk
Board Interlocks and Outside Directors' Protection pp. 129 - 160: Michal Barzuza and Quinn Curtis
Vicarious Liability for Managerial Myopia pp. 161 - 185: James Cameron Spindler
Jurors' Presumption of Innocence pp. 187 - 206: Nicholas Scurich and Richard S. John
Adam Smith, Prophet of Law and Economics pp. 207 - 236: Paul G. Mahoney