In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

Most of the empirical research examining racial disparities in the criminal justice process
has focused on its two endpoints-the arrest and initial charging of defendants and judges' …

This article examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set
of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We use a research design that exploits …

Are minorities treated differently by the legal system? Systematic racial differences in case
characteristics, many unobservable, make this a difficult question to answer directly. In this …

In a New York Times article discussing Senator Mitch McConnell's silencing of Senator
Elizabeth Warren on the US Senate floor, Susan Chira asked:" Was there a woman who …

A low income person is more likely to be prosecuted and imprisoned post-Gideon than pre-
Gideon. Poor people lose in American criminal justice not because they have ineffective …

INTRODUCTION In the past decade, state bar associations, state courts, bodies that
compose and administer ethical codes, and others have accelerated a trend begun much …

The concept of fair use is central to modem copyright law in the United States; however,
almost every aspect of the fair use doctrine is highly contested. Moreover, the application of …

One in five indigent murder defendants in Philadelphia is randomly assigned representation
by public defenders while the remainder receive court-appointed private attorneys. We …

We report the results of the first of a series of randomized evaluations of legal assistance
programs. This series of evaluations is designed to measure the effect of both an offer of and …