Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

2004 - 2026

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Volume 23, issue 3, 2026

In Memoriam: Marc Galanter pp. 292-292

Jeffrey Rachlinski

Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation pp. 293-326

Adam Callister, Andrew Granato and Belisa Pang

Randomly Albright: The End of Judge Shopping in the Western District of Texas? pp. 327-346

Christian Helmers, Bernhard Ganglmair and Brian J. Love

Judicial Decision‐Making in Free Exercise Cases: The Effect of Legal Standards, Judge Party, and Shared Religion pp. 347-358

Jonathan Hensley

Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges pp. 359-378

Nicholas Goldrosen

Mobility‐Restricting Covenants in Business Contracts: The Case of Franchising pp. 379-407

Francine Lafontaine, Lorenzo G. Luisetto and J.J. Prescott

Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia pp. 408-425

Pat Leslie, Tonja Jacobi, Zoe Robinson and Russell Smyth

A New Source of Data on Class Action Settlements: The Department of Justice's Class Action Fairness Act Log pp. 426-434

Brian T. Fitzpatrick

Volume 23, issue 2, 2026

Sentence Variability in a Mathematical Sentencing Framework: A Statistical Analysis of Brazilian Court Data pp. 160-171

Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos, Américo Bedê and Aline Pires de Angeli Ferreira

Patents and Supra‐Competitive Prices: Evidence From Consumer Products pp. 172-204

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Ling Zhou

Can Disclaimers of Affiliation Dispel Trademark Confusion? Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments pp. 205-223

Barton Beebe, Roy Germano and Joel Steckel

A Survey of Preferences for Estate Distribution at Death pp. 224-245

John Morley and Yair Listokin

An Assessment of Racial Disparities in Pretrial Decision‐Making Using Misclassification Models pp. 246-269

Kimberly A. Hochstedler Webb, Sarah A. Riley and Martin T. Wells

Crime, Punishment, and Expectations pp. 270-286

Mohammad H. Rahmati and David A. Hyman

Volume 23, issue 1, 2026

Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs pp. 4-23

Dhruv Chand Aggarwal

Can Legal Knowledge Save Lives? A Randomized Experiment in Preventive Health Screenings pp. 24-38

Christopher Robertson and Wendy Netter Epstein

Bridging the Human–AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision‐Making pp. 39-59

Arian Henning and Pascal Langenbach

Measuring Lawyer Mental Illness: Evidence From Two National Surveys pp. 60-101

Benjamin Pyle and Clifford Rosky

Judicial Perceptions of Legal Difficulty: An Empirical Inquiry pp. 102-127

Brian Sheppard, Michael Coenen and Andrew Moshirnia

Pay Secrecy Bans and the Sharing of Salary Information Among US Workers pp. 128-152

Kristen Underhill, Zohn Rosen, Lisa M. Bates, Francesca Manzi and Leib Litman

Volume 22, issue 4, 2025

Foreword JELS 22.4 (December 2025) pp. 402-402

Tonja Jacobi, Jonathan Remy Nash and Joanna Shepherd

Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine pp. 403-413

Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur and Ryan Whalen

Do Representative Payments Matter? An Empirical Study pp. 414-421

Brian T. Fitzpatrick and Colton Cronin

Centered Advantage: A Geographic Measure of Partisan Fairness in Redistricting pp. 422-437

Jeffrey T. Barton and Jon Eguia

Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence pp. 438-454

Yehonatan Givati

Chapter 13 Outcomes pp. 455-474

Richard M. Hynes and Nathaniel Pattison

Normative Ambiguity, Social Norms, and the Expressive Power of Law pp. 475-501

Adi Leibovitch and Doron Teichman

Settlementality pp. 502-524

Jessica Bregant, Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Verity Winship

Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations pp. 525-543

Jonathon Zytnick

No Adjudication pp. 544-567

Charlotte S. Alexander, Nathan Dahlberg, Alexandra D. Lahav and Peter Siegelman

Government Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From China pp. 568-598

Isabelle Zhang

Network Analysis of Innovation in Legal Scholarship: Law & Economics, Law & Society, and Empirical Legal Studies pp. 599-619

Jing Liu and David A. Hyman

Data‐Driven Accommodations: Testing Religious Exemptions in Markets With Discrimination pp. 620-654

Brady Earley

How Binding Is Administrative Guidance? An Empirical Study of Guidance, Rules, and the Courts Telling Them Apart pp. 655-689

Amit Haim

The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds pp. 690-706

Quinn Curtis

Gun Laws and Justifiable Homicides: Contrasting Impacts on Civilians and Police pp. 707-733

Ivan Ribeiro, Julio Trecenti, Nelson Coelho, Jessica Maruyama, Abhay Aneja and John Donohue

Volume 22, issue 3, 2025

The Distance Factor in Remedies pp. 270-297

Daphna Lewinsohn‐Zamir and Ilana Ritov

Measuring the Perceived (In)accessibility of Courts and Lawyers pp. 298-317

Catrina Denvir, Nigel J. Balmer, Pascoe Pleasence and Tenielle Hagland

Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida pp. 318-344

Kyle Rozema

In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems pp. 345-360

Albert Yoon

Dispute Resolution in the Signaling Model: A Comparison of Arbitration Mechanisms pp. 361-377

Paul Pecorino, Michael Solomon and Mark Van Boening

The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks pp. 378-396

Kristina Bishop, Matthew Jennejohn and Cree Jones

Volume 22, issue 2, 2025

Molecular Diagnostic Patenting After Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis pp. 144-162

Colleen V. Chien, Jenna Clark and Arti K. Rai

Perception Pending: What Do Patents Signal to Consumers? pp. 163-184

Alexander Billy and Neel Sukhatme

Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices pp. 186-215

Hirofumi Miwa

Hallucination‐Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools pp. 216-242

Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, Mirac Suzgun, Christopher D. Manning and Daniel E. Ho

Law, Justice and Reason‐Giving pp. 243-266

Ori Katz and Eyal Zamir

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