A new judicial politics of legal doctrine has the potential to resolve foundational dilemmas
and reconcile long-standing and counterproductive scholarly divisions by bringing together …

Political scientists often find themselves analyzing data sets with a large number of
observations, a large number of variables, or both. Yet, traditional statistical techniques fail …

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 …

This paper investigates the potential for reducing the complexity of AI and Law and empirical
legal studies projects through a novel annotation methodology that relies on GPT Family …

Artificial intelligence is currently in the center of attention of legal professionals. In recent
years, a variety of efforts have been made to predict judicial decisions using different …

This study identifies factors that contribute to sentencing outcomes for criminally sentenced
individuals experiencing mental disorders, in two US states with divergent sociopolitical …

Economists have made great progress in understanding the incentives and behavior of
actors who operate outside of traditional economic markets, including voters, legislators, and …

We examine how the Supreme Court learns from lower court decisions to evaluate new
legal issues. We present a theory of optimal stopping in which the Court learns from …

This chapter reviews the literature concerning several issues raised in the economic
analysis of appeal and of supreme courts. These issues overlap with those considered in …

The founding debate of judicial politics—is Supreme Court decision making driven by law or
politics?—remains at center stage. One influential line of attack involves the identification of …