Drawing on the political theory of judicial decision making, our paper proposes a new and
parsimonious ex ante litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge …

One-dimensional spatial models have come to inform much theorizing and research on the
US Supreme Court. However, we argue that judicial preferences vary considerably across …

Few areas of litigation have generated more heated debate in recent years than lawsuits
brought pursuant to the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA). t Those provisions …

This study shows that the political preferences of those responsible for retaining judges are
strongly associated with judicial voting. The evidence supports the widespread belief that …

This paper develops a consensus voting model for estimating preferences of federal circuit
court judges. Unlike standard ideal point models, which assume that judges vote sincerely …

In recent years, a growing chorus of commentators has called on Congress to vest agencies
with litigation" gatekeeper" authority across a range of regulatory areas, from civil rights and …

Existing scholarship on the voting behavior of US Courts of Appeals judges finds that their
decisions are best understood as a function of law, policy preferences, and factors relating to …

This paper develops an organizing framework for research on corporate political strategy. It
reviews the literature and then identifies a number of open research questions and streams …

This Article assesses the impact ofjudicial review on one of the nation's foundational
environmental statutes, the National Environmental Policy Act (" NEPA'). Based on litigation …

In 2005, the SEC mandated that firms disclose risk factors to provide useful information
about firm risk. An unintended effect of the mandate is that mandatory risk factor (RF) …