Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

2004 - 2025

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2014

The Failed Promise of User Fees: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pp. 602-636

Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

An Empirical Evaluation of the Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, and Geographic Disparities? pp. 637-696

John Donohue

Deliberative Democracy and the American Civil Jury pp. 697-717

Valerie P. Hans, John Gastil and Traci Feller

Trademarks, Triggers, and Online Search pp. 718-750

Stefan Bechtold and Catherine Tucker

Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Men's Legal Socialization pp. 751-785

Tom R. Tyler, Jeffrey Fagan and Amanda Geller

Sex Offender Law and the Geography of Victimization pp. 786-828

Amanda Agan and J.J. Prescott

How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared pp. 829-866

Paul J. Heald

Legal Institutions and Social Values: Theory and Evidence from Plea Bargaining Regimes pp. 867-893

Yehonatan Givati

Choice of Law: An Empirical Analysis pp. 894-928

Sarath Sanga

Volume 11, issue 3, 2014

Foreign Affairs and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act pp. 409-445

Stephen J. Choi and Kevin E. Davis

Increased Perception of Malpractice Liability and the Practice of Defensive Medicine pp. 446-476

Brian K. Chen and Chun‐Yuh Yang

An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability pp. 477-504

Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman

Do Kinship Networks Strengthen Private Property? Evidence from Rural China pp. 505-540

Taisu Zhang and Xiaoxue Zhao

The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model pp. 541-577

Eric W. Schultheis

Lawyer and Nonlawyer Susceptibility to Framing Effects in Out‐of‐Court Civil Litigation Settlement pp. 578-600

Ian K. Belton, Mary Thomson and Mandeep K. Dhami

Volume 11, issue 2, 2014

Playing with Trolleys: Intuitions About the Permissibility of Aggregation pp. 197-226

Mark Kelman and Tamar Admati Kreps

Urban Land‐Use Regulation: Are Homevoters Overtaking the Growth Machine? pp. 227-265

Vicki Been, Josiah Madar and Simon McDonnell

Jurists, Clerics, and Merchants: The Rise of Learned Law in Medieval Europe and its Impact on Economic Growth pp. 266-300

Hans-Bernd Schäfer and Alexander J. Wulf

Assuring Civil Damages Adequately Deter: A Public Good Experiment pp. 301-349

Theodore Eisenberg and Christoph Engel

Shifting the Fat‐Tailed Distribution of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards pp. 350-377

W Viscusi and Benjamin J. McMichael

Does the Law Matter? Win Rates and Law Reforms pp. 378-407

David Gliksberg

Volume 11, issue 1, 2014

The Labor Market for New Law Professors pp. 1-38

Tracey E. George and Albert H. Yoon

Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan pp. 39-73

John Ramseyer

Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation pp. 74-104

Sasha Romanosky, David Hoffman and Alessandro Acquisti

The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials pp. 105-131

Michael J. Saks, N. J. Schweitzer, Eyal Aharoni and Kent A. Kiehl

Jurisdictional Effects in M&A Litigation pp. 132-158

C. N. V. Krishnan, Ronald Masulis, Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson

Mapping Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Independence—A Global Survey pp. 159-195

Bernd Hayo and Stefan Voigt

Volume 10, issue 4, 2013

The Receding Tide of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Part 1—National Trends pp. 612-638

Myungho Paik, Bernard Black and David A. Hyman

The Receding Tide of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Part 2—Effect of Damage Caps pp. 639-669

Myungho Paik, Bernard Black and David Hyman

Choice‐Based Discrimination: Labor‐Force‐Type Discrimination Against Gay Men, the Obese, and Mothers pp. 670-695

Tamar Kricheli‐Katz

Prosecutor Elections, Mistakes, and Appeals pp. 696-714

Bryan McCannon

Can You Buy Sperm Donor Identification? An Experiment pp. 715-740

I. Glenn Cohen and Travis G. Coan

Race, Prediction, and Pretrial Detention pp. 741-770

Frank McIntyre and Shima Baradaran

Bankrupt Apologies pp. 771-796

Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Robert M. Lawless

The Effect of Legal Expert Commentary on Lay Judgments of Judicial Decision Making pp. 797-814

Dan Simon and Nicholas Scurich

Suing the Leviathan—An Empirical Analysis of the Changing Rate of Administrative Litigation in China pp. 815-846

Ji Li

Judicial Ideology and the Selection of Disputes for U.S. Supreme Court Adjudication pp. 847-865

Jeff Yates, Damon M. Cann and Brent D. Boyea

Volume 10, issue 3, 2013

Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game pp. 399-423

Orley Ashenfelter, David E. Bloom and Gordon Dahl

Who Will Manage Complex Civil Litigation? The Decision to Transfer and Consolidate Multidistrict Litigation pp. 424-461

Margaret S. Williams and Tracey E. George

The Effects of the Labor Contract Law on the Chinese Labor Market pp. 462-483

Fan Cui, Ying Ge and Fengchun Jing

How Jurors Evaluate Fingerprint Evidence: The Relative Importance of Match Language, Method Information, and Error Acknowledgment pp. 484-511

Brandon Garrett and Gregory Mitchell

Reference Points and Contractual Choices: An Experimental Examination pp. 512-541

Yuval Feldman, Amos Schurr and Doron Teichman

Rescuing Confidence in the Judicial System: Introducing Lay Participation in Taiwan pp. 542-569

Kuo‐Chang Huang and Chang‐Ching Lin

A Quantitative Analysis of the Indian Supreme Court's Workload pp. 570-601

Nick Robinson

Volume 10, issue 2, 2013

Do Racial Preferences Affect Minority Learning in Law Schools? pp. 171-195

Doug Williams

Price Effects and the Commerce Clause: The Case of State Wine Shipping Laws pp. 196-229

Jerry Ellig and Alan E. Wiseman

Can We Trust Intuitive Jurors? Standards of Proof and the Probative Value of Evidence in Coherence‐Based Reasoning pp. 230-252

Andreas Glöckner and Christoph Engel

Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complaints pp. 253-287

Christina L. Boyd, David A. Hoffman, Zoran Obradovic and Kosta Ristovski

Strong Financial Laws Without Strong Enforcement: Is Good Law Always Better than No Law? pp. 288-324

Mark Humphery‐Jenner

The Citation and Depreciation of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent pp. 325-358

Ryan C. Black and James F. Spriggs

Do Jurors Give Appropriate Weight to Forensic Identification Evidence? pp. 359-397

William C. Thompson, Suzanne O. Kaasa and Tiamoyo Peterson

Volume 10, issue 1, 2013

Measuring Diversity on the Supreme Court with Biodiversity Statistics pp. 1-34

Benjamin H. Barton and Emily Moran

Judge‐Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: The First Three Years of the Korean Jury System pp. 35-53

Sangjoon Kim, Jaihyun Park, Kwangbai Park and Jin‐Sup Eom

Is Certiorari Contingent on Litigant Behavior? Petitioners' Role in Strategic Auditing pp. 54-75

Maxwell Mak, Andrew H. Sidman and Udi Sommer

Judicial Impartiality, Campaign Contributions, and Recusals: Results from a National Survey pp. 76-103

James L. Gibson and Gregory A. Caldeira

Pricing Damages for Pain and Suffering in Court: The Impact of the Valuation Method pp. 104-119

Magdalena Flatscher‐Thöni, Andrea Leiter and Hannes Winner

Do the “Haves” Come Out Ahead in Shanghai Courts? pp. 120-145

Xin He and Yang Su

Bridging the Empirical Gap: New Insights into the Experience of Multiple Legal Problems and Advice Seeking pp. 146-170

Marisol Smith, Alexy Buck, Judith Sidaway and Lesley Scanlan