The Journal of Legal Studies

1974 - 2025

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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

Contracting over Privacy: Introduction pp. S1 - S11: Omri Ben-Shahar and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Self-Regulation and Competition in Privacy Policies pp. S13 - S39: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test pp. S41 - S67: Omri Ben-Shahar and Adam Chilton
Is Privacy Policy Language Irrelevant to Consumers? pp. S69 - S95: Lior Jacob Strahilevitz and Matthew B. Kugler
A Query-Theory Perspective of Privacy Decision Making pp. S97 - S121: Idris Adjerid, Sonam Samat and Alessandro Acquisti
Contracting for Privacy Precaution (and a Laffer Curve for Crime) pp. S123 - S136: Ian Ayres
Optimal Defaults in Consumer Markets pp. S137 - S161: Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Ambiguity in Privacy Policies and the Impact of Regulation pp. S163 - S190: Joel R. Reidenberg, Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis D. Breaux and Thomas B. Norton
Do Privacy Notices Matter? Comparing the Impact of Violating Formal Privacy Notices and Informal Privacy Norms on Consumer Trust Online pp. S191 - S215: Kirsten Martin

The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods pp. 223 - 254: Katerina Linos and Kimberly Twist
Justice Is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges pp. 255 - 280: Holger Spamann and Lars Klöhn
Relative Judgments pp. 281 - 330: Adi Leibovitch
Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior pp. 331 - 366: Berno Buechel and Gerd Muehlheusser
Prenups pp. 367 - 400: Peter Leeson and Joshua Pierson
Supreme Court Justices' Loyalty to the President pp. 401 - 436: Lee Epstein and Eric A. Posner
Is the Government Fiscally Blind? An Empirical Examination of the Effect of the Compensation Requirement on Eminent-Domain Exercises pp. 437 - 469: Ronit Levine-Schnur and Gideon Parchomovsky
The Heavy Costs of High Bail: Evidence from Judge Randomization pp. 471 - 505: Arpit Gupta, Christopher Hansman and Ethan Frenchman

The Prison Boom and Sentencing Policy pp. 1 - 41: Derek Neal and Armin Rick
A Theory of Whistleblower Rewards pp. 43 - 72: Yehonatan Givati
Law Enforcement in a Federal System: On the Strategic Choice of Sanction Levels pp. 73 - 103: Tim Friehe and Thomas J. Miceli
Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure pp. 105 - 141: Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa and Richard H. McAdams
Multiple Causation, Apportionment, and the Shapley Value pp. 143 - 171: Samuel Ferey and Pierre Dehez
Sharing Residual Liability: The Cheapest Cost Avoider Revisited pp. 173 - 201: Emanuela Carbonara, Alice Guerra and Francesco Parisi
Evenwel, Voting Power, and Dual Districting pp. 203 - 221: Paul H. Edelman