Back in the 1940s the political scientist C. Herman Pritchett began tallying the votes and
opinions of Supreme Court Justices. His goal was to use data to test the hypothesis that the …

This Article describes the origins of three movements in legal academia: empirical legal
studies (ELS), law and society, and law and economics. It then quantifies the distribution …

Human capital theory suggests that work experience acquired through on-the-job-training
primes people to be more successful. Empirical validations of this hypothesis are numerous …

A judge's role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is
about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a …

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many
different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a …

We study 1,410 mandatory jurisdiction and 48 discretionary jurisdiction criminal law case
outcomes in cases appealed to the Israel Supreme Court in 2006 and 2007 to assess …

The Purse and the Sword presents a critical analysis of Israel's legal system in the context of
its politics, history, and the forces that shape its society. This book examines the extensive …

Prior federal and state civil appeals studies show that appeals courts overturn jury verdicts
more than bench decisions and that defendants fare better than plaintiffs on appeal …

A key influence on governance and regulation is the ideology of individual decisionmakers.
However, certain branches of government–such as courts–while wielding wide ranging …

Driving discovery in the study of law and legal institutions often requires infrastructure in the
form of databases and other tools. The challenge is how to build the infrastructure. For …