Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

2004 - 2025

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Volume 22, issue 1, 2025

Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws pp. 4-26

Jonathan Klick

Plea Bargaining Procedures Worldwide: Drivers of Introduction and Use pp. 27-75

Gabriele Paolini, Elena Kantorowicz‐Reznichenko and Stefan Voigt

Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value pp. 76-89

Christopher A. Cotropia and David L. Schwartz

Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador pp. 90-113

Cree Jones and Preston Lloyd

The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway pp. 114-129

Henrik Litleré Bentsen, Jon Kåre Skiple, Mark Jonathan McKenzie and Gunnar Grendstad

Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000–2020 pp. 130-140

Peter Adelson, Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko and Eric Talley

Volume 21, issue 3, 2024

Private security and public police pp. 428-481

Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport and Michael Berg

The influence of the race of defendant and the race of victim on capital charging and sentencing in California pp. 482-531

Catherine M. Grosso, Jeffrey Fagan and Michael Laurence

The impact of legal representation in Israeli traffic courts: Addressing selection bias and generalizability problems pp. 532-576

Rabeea Assy and Tomer Carmel

Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation pp. 577-631

Christopher Jon Sprigman and Stephan Tontrup

A statistical approach to law school citation rankings pp. 632-668

Joshua Fischman

The value of legal recourse in sovereign bond markets: Evidence from Argentina pp. 669-709

Sebastian M. Saiegh and Glen Biglaiser

Volume 21, issue 2, 2024

Litigation with negative expected value suits: An experimental analysis pp. 244-278

Cary Deck, Paul Pecorino and Michael Solomon

Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools pp. 279-336

Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon

Lawyers' legal aid participation: A qualitative and quantitative analysis pp. 337-374

Ching‐fang Hsu, Ivan Kan‐hsueh Chiang and Yun‐chien Chang

Does the 1L curriculum make a difference? pp. 375-423

David A. Hyman, Jing Liu and Joshua Teitelbaum

Volume 21, issue 1, 2024

Consent searches and underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample pp. 4-34

Roseanna Sommers and Vanessa K. Bohns

Consent searches: Evaluating the usefulness of a common and highly discretionary police practice pp. 35-91

Megan Dias, Derek A. Epp, Marcel Roman and Hannah L. Walker

Constitutional accountability for police shootings pp. 92-108

Greg Goelzhauser

Bargaining power in the market for intellectual property: Evidence from licensing contract terms pp. 109-173

Gaurav Kankanhalli and Alan Kwan

“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court pp. 174-207

Diego Werneck Arguelhes, Juliana Cesario Alvim, Rafaela Nogueira and Henrique Wang

The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments pp. 208-239

Ian K. Belton and Mandeep K. Dhami

Volume 20, issue 4, 2023

Foreword pp. 718-718

Michal Barzuza, Kevin Cope and Quinn Curtis

Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution pp. 719-745

Barry E. Adler and Vedran Capkun

Strategic subdelegation pp. 746-817

Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou

Paid medical malpractice claims: How strongly does the past predict the future? pp. 818-851

Kowsar Yousefi, Bernard Black and David A. Hyman

Biases in legal decision‐making: Comparing prosecutors, defense attorneys, law students, and laypersons pp. 852-894

Doron Teichman, Eyal Zamir and Ilana Ritov

The market for general counsel pp. 895-940

Dhruv Chand Aggarwal

The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment pp. 941-960

Christopher T. Robertson, Wendy Netter Epstein and Hansoo Ko

Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes pp. 961-1004

Tamar Kricheli‐Katz and Keren Weinshall

Measuring law's normative force pp. 1005-1044

Kevin L. Cope

The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions pp. 1045-1069

Scott Simon Boddery, Damon Cann, Laura Moyer and Jeff Yates

Gender gaps in legal education: The impact of class participation assessments pp. 1070-1137

Kenneth Khoo and Jaclyn Neo

Volume 20, issue 3, 2023

Settlement schemas: How laypeople understand civil settlement pp. 488-533

Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Jessica Bregant and Verity Winship

The usage and utility of body‐worn camera footage in courts: A survey analysis of state prosecutors pp. 534-569

Kevin Petersen, Donald Papy, Alejandro Mouro and Barak Ariel

Effect of financial incentives on hospital‐cardiologist integration and cardiac test location pp. 570-608

Andy Ye Yuan, Bernard Black, Timea Viragh, David J. Magid, Qian Luo and Ali Moghtaderi

Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection pp. 609-640

Anna Effenberger, John H. Blume and Martin T. Wells

The effect of judges' gender on decisions regarding intimate‐partner violence pp. 641-668

Joan Josep Vallbé and Carmen Ramírez‐Folch

Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy pp. 669-712

Nathan T. Carrington and Logan Strother

Volume 20, issue 2, 2023

Sudden lockdown repeals, social mobility, and COVID‐19: Evidence from a judicial natural experiment pp. 272-304

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols and Joseph J. Sabia

The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time of COVID: An empirical perspective pp. 305-338

Michael Heise

Gender, race, and job satisfaction of law graduates: Intersectional evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates pp. 339-376

Joni Hersch

How accurate are rebuttable presumptions of pretrial dangerousness?: A natural experiment from New Mexico pp. 377-408

Cristopher Moore, Elise Ferguson and Paul Guerin

Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions pp. 409-433

Mihael A. Jeklic

An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes pp. 434-471

James T. Graves and Alessandro Acquisti

Beyond republicans and the disapproval of regulations: A new empirical approach to the Congressional Review Act pp. 472-484

Steven J. Balla, Bridget C. E. Dooling and Daniel R. Pérez

Volume 20, issue 1, 2023

Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals pp. 4-85

Alexander A. Reinert

Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention pp. 86-133

Joshua Grossman, Julian Nyarko and Sharad Goel

JD‐Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students' success in law school pp. 134-165

Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Legg Burross, Katherine C. Cheng, Matt Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li and Christopher Robertson

A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices pp. 166-195

Steven A. Boutcher, Jason N. Houle, Anna Raup‐Kounovksy and Carroll Seron

Managerial litigation risk and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from universal demand laws pp. 196-232

Leonard Leye Li, Gary S. Monroe and Jeff Coulton

One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials pp. 233-268

Konstantinos Kalliris and Theodore Alysandratos