Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

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Volume 3, issue 3, 2006

Judicial Decision Making During Wartime pp. 397-419

Tom S. Clark

An Empirical Inquiry into the Relation of Corrective Justice to Distributive Justice pp. 421-466

Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock

Placing “Standard of Care” in Context: The Impact of Witness Potential and Attorney Reputation in Medical Malpractice Litigation pp. 467-496

Catherine T. Harris, Ralph Peeples and Thomas B. Metzloff

Law, Ideology, and Strategy in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Securities Fraud Actions pp. 497-524

Michael A. Perino

Do Divorce Law Reforms Matter for Divorce Rates? Evidence from Portugal pp. 525-542

Clarisse Coelho and Nuno Garoupa

Explaining Deviations from Absolute Priority Rules in Bankruptcy pp. 543-560

Maria Carapeto

Regulating Bankruptcy Abuse: An Empirical Study of Consumer Exemptions Cases pp. 561-609

Bernard Trujillo

Volume 3, issue 2, 2006

The Behavioral Foundations of Trade Secrets: Tangibility, Authorship, and Legality pp. 197-235

Yuval Feldman

Activism, Ideology, and Federalism: Judicial Behavior in Constitutional Challenges Before the Rehnquist Court, 1986–2000 pp. 237-261

Rorie Spill Solberg and Stefanie A. Lindquist

Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses Using the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts 1992, 1996, and 2001 Data pp. 263-295

Theodore Eisenberg, Paula L. Hannaford‐Agor, Michael Heise, Neil LaFountain, G. Thomas Munsterman, Brian Ostrom and Martin T. Wells

The Use of Foreign Decisions by Federal Courts: An Empirical Analysis pp. 297-331

David Zaring

Apologies and Settlement Levers pp. 333-373

Jennifer K. Robbennolt

A Note on the Censoring Problem in Empirical Case‐Outcome Studies pp. 375-395

Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin, Ian W. McKeague and Wei‐Yann Tsai

Volume 3, issue 1, 2006

Dissecting Damages: An Empirical Exploration of Sexual Harassment Awards pp. 1-45

Catherine M. Sharkey

Physician Shopping in Workers' Compensation: Evidence from California pp. 47-77

Seth A. Seabury, Robert T. Reville and Frank Neuhauser

Multiple Regime Shifts in Concurring and Dissenting Opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court pp. 79-98

Russell Smyth and Paresh Narayan

A Comparative Study of Juror Utilization in U.S. District Courts pp. 99-120

Marika Litras and John R. Golmant

Case Characteristics and Defendant Tenant Default in a Housing Court pp. 121-144

Erik Larson

Federal Oversight, State Policy Making, and the Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Nursing Facility Litigation Under the Boren Amendment pp. 145-173

Edward Alan Miller

The Significant Association Between Punitive and Compensatory Damages in Blockbuster Cases: A Methodological Primer pp. 175-195

Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells

Volume 2, issue 3, 2005

The Judicial Confirmation Process: The Difficulty with Being Smart pp. 407-447

John R. Lott

External Review of Coverage Denials by Managed Care Organizations in California pp. 449-468

Carole Roan Gresenz and David M. Studdert

The Empirical Case for Specific Performance: Evidence from the IBP‐Tyson Litigation pp. 469-493

Yair Listokin

As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure pp. 495-549

Albert Yoon

Overlooked in the Tort Reform Debate: The Growth of Erroneous Removal pp. 551-576

Theodore Eisenberg and Trevor W. Morrison

Volume 2, issue 2, 2005

Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988–2002 pp. 207-259

Bernard Black, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman and William M. Sage

Does Relationship Banking Matter? The Myth of the Japanese Main Bank pp. 261-302

Yoshiro Miwa and John Ramseyer

New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence: Déjà Vu All Over Again? pp. 303-330

Richard Berk

Jury Sentencing in Noncapital Cases: Comparing Severity and Variance with Judicial Sentences in Two States pp. 331-367

Nancy J. King and Rosevelt L. Noble

Appellate Court Adherence to Precedent pp. 369-405

Frank Cross

Volume 2, issue 1, 2005

Have Federal Judges Changed Their Sentencing Practices? The Shaky Empirical Foundations of the Feeney Amendment pp. 1-48

Max Schanzenbach

The Fate of Firms: Explaining Mergers and Bankruptcies pp. 49-85

Clas Bergström, Theodore Eisenberg, Stefan Sundgren and Martin T. Wells

Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: The Effect of Third‐Party Expression in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game pp. 87-123

Richard H. McAdams and Janice Nadler

What Counts as Fraud? An Empirical Study of Motions to Dismiss Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act pp. 125-149

A. C. Pritchard and Hillary A. Sale

The Irrelevance of Direct Bankruptcy Costs to the Firm's Financial Reorganization Decision pp. 151-169

Timothy Fisher and Jocelyn Martel

Judge‐Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury pp. 171-207

Theodore Eisenberg, Paula L. Hannaford‐Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Waters, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells

Volume 1, issue 3, 2004

The Vanishing Trial pp. v-vii

Patricia Lee Refo

The Vanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts pp. 459-570

Marc Galanter

Keeping Our Ambition Under Control: The Limits of Data and Inference in Searching for the Causes and Consequences of Vanishing Trials in Federal Court pp. 571-590

Stephen B. Burbank

Vanishing Trials and Summary Judgment in Federal Civil Cases: Drifting Toward Bethlehem or Gomorrah? pp. 591-626

Stephen B. Burbank

The Case for Trials: Considering the Intangibles pp. 627-636

Paul Butler

Puzzles about Supply‐Side Explanations for Vanishing Trials: A New Look at Fundamentals pp. 637-658

Shari Seidman Diamond and Jessica Bina

Appeal Rates and Outcomes in Tried and Nontried Cases: Further Exploration of Anti‐Plaintiff Appellate Outcomes pp. 659-688

Theodore Eisenberg

The Day Before Trials Vanished pp. 689-703

Lawrence M. Friedman

Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Nontrial Adjudications, and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases pp. 705-734

Gillian K. Hadfield

Disappearing Trials? A Comparative Perspective pp. 735-754

Herbert M. Kritzer

Examining Trial Trends in State Courts: 1976–2002 pp. 755-782

Brian J. Ostrom, Shauna M. Strickland and Paula L. Hannaford‐Agor

Migrating, Morphing, and Vanishing: The Empirical and Normative Puzzles of Declining Trial Rates in Courts pp. 783-841

Judith Resnik

ADR and the “Vanishing Trial”: The Growth and Impact of “Alternative Dispute Resolution” pp. 843-912

Thomas J. Stipanowich

Vanishing Trials: The Bankruptcy Experience pp. 913-942

Elizabeth Warren

Getting What We Asked For, Getting What We Paid For, and Not Liking What We Got: The Vanishing Civil Trial pp. 943-971

Stephen C. Yeazell

So What? Possible Implications of the Vanishing Trial Phenomenon pp. 973-984

Stephan Landsman

Volume 1, issue 2, 2004

A Broken System: The Persistent Patterns of Reversals of Death Sentences in the United States pp. 209-261

Andrew Gelman, James S. Liebman, Valerie West and Alexander Kiss

Was Arthur Andersen Different? An Empirical Examination of Major Accounting Firm Audits of Large Clients pp. 263-300

Theodore Eisenberg and Jonathan R. Macey

Multiple Justiciable Problems: Common Clusters and Their Social and Demographic Indicators pp. 301-329

Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel J. Balmer, Alexy Buck, Aoife O'Grady and Hazel Genn

Criminal Case Complexity: An Empirical Perspective pp. 331-369

Michael Heise

Juror First Votes in Criminal Trials pp. 371-398

Stephen P. Garvey, Paula Hannaford‐Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman and Martin T. Wells

Hail to the Chief! Leadership and Structural Change in the Level of Consensus on the High Court of Australia pp. 399-427

Russell Smyth and Paresh Narayan

How Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Fare in Federal Court pp. 429-458

Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab

Volume 1, issue 1, 2004

Publisher's Note pp. iii-iii

Malcolm Crystal and Otis Dean

Editor's Introduction pp. v-vi

Theodore Eisenberg, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Stewart J. Schwab and Martin T. Wells

Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts pp. 1-25

Seth A. Seabury, Nicholas M. Pace and Robert T. Reville

Attorney Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study pp. 27-78

Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller

Determinants of Civil Rights Filings in Federal District Court by Jail and Prison Inmates pp. 79-109

Anne Piehl and Margo Schlanger

The Determinants of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases pp. 111-141

Lynn M. LoPucki and Joseph W. Doherty

Empirical Estimates of Filtering Failure in Court‐Supervised Reorganization pp. 143-164

Timothy Fisher and Jocelyn Martel

Explaining Death Row's Population and Racial Composition pp. 165-207

John Blume, Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells