Bitcoin, described by its promoters as" an innovative payment network and a new kind of
money,"'has attracted extraordinary attention as a financial 2 innovation. This attention …

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 …

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, benefit-cost analysis may be the worst tool for
policymaking, except for all the others that have been tried.'If regulatory interventions in …

It is no secret that many judicial systems across the globe are stumbling beneath a heavy
burden of thousands of suits filed every year in court. The need to optimize the judicial …

When it comes to combating meritless litigation, how much should procedure matter?
Conventional wisdom holds that procedure should be uniform, with the same rules applying …

We investigate the effects of fee-shifting in an experimental litigation game. In our setup, a
defendant may cause harm to a plaintiff. The defendant can take precautions to lower the …

Attorneys' fees fuel litigation, yet little is known about fees. Fee data are rarely available in
the United States or in English rule, loser-pays jurisdictions. This Article analyzes fee awards …

This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by
spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an …

This study documents gender disparities in litigation‐cost rulings in Israel. It expands on the
existing literature on judicial bias in at least two important ways: by controlling for the merits …

Bitcoin is a protocol promoted as the first peer-to-peer institution, an alternative to a central
bank. The decisions made through this protocol, however, involve no judgment. Could a …