Research correlating stringency in land-use regulation to low housing supply, high housing costs, and segregation relies on surveys of planners about...
This Article introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS), an expert-sourced measure of judicial traits that can locate nearly...
Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...
This chapter provides an overview of computational text analysis techniques used to study judicial behavior and decision-making. As legal texts become...
In an era characterized by inequalities of income and influence, political polarization, and the segregation of social spaces, the income tax...
Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...
The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...
As social scientists seek to communicate research about what works in policing to police executives, they overlook important players in determining...
Gender equality matters in the global public law academy for at least three reasons: the production of diverse scholarship, and substantive equality...
William Blackstone famously expressed the view that convicting the innocent constitutes a much more serious error than acquitting the guilty. This...
This Article is built around a central empirical claim: most reforms and interventions in the criminal legal space are shown to have little lasting...
In the years since the publication of our book, How Constitutional Rights Matter, many scholars from around the world have engaged with our research...
Recent decades have seen a sharp rise in constitutional provisions regulating core aspects of democracy, including the rules about parties, voting...
Income tax law and policy are fundamentally intertwined with private markets—causal effects run in both directions. The vitality of public markets can...
In the past decades, clauses guaranteeing gender equality have become a common feature of national constitutions. During that time, de facto gender...
How dangerous must a person be to justify the state in locking her up for the greater good? The bail reform movement, which aspires to limit pretrial...
