We review the substantial literature on estimating judicial ideology, from the US Supreme
Court to the lowest state court. As a way to showcase the strengths and drawbacks of …

Using a data set capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million US judges and
lawyers, we present evidence showing how ideology affects the selection of judges across …

This paper measures the impact of signaling on labor-market outcomes by estimating the
labor-market effects of attending a US News & World Report Top 14 (T14) law school …

On average, economists are more attracted to economic efficiency than ordinary people are.
1 For example, laboratory experiments reveal that economists are less inclined than others …

Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's
attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary …

Five years ago, the new Trump Administration debuted the use of a set of tools that allow a
president to roll back a predecessor's policies outside of textbook administrative law. 1 The …

OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES or so, social scientists have looked with renewed interest
at the problem of inequality in the United States, teaching us that at least some portion of this …

Why have conservatives decried'activist judges'? And why have liberals-and America's
powerful legal establishment-emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This …

Vicarious liability means holding one person responsible for the misdeeds of another just as
if the wrongdoer and the defendant were the same person. There are two competing …

We study the implications of stricter tenure standards in law schools, an environment in
which 95 percent of all tenure-track hires receive tenure. To do so, we construct a novel data …