Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

COMMENTS Page 1 COMMENTS PROPER PARTIES, PROPER RELIEF William Baude* &
Samuel L. Bray** INTRODUCTION In the last Term at the United States Supreme Court …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and-economics
movement on the US judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal …

Abstract Research Summary Political and regulatory actors routinely adopt or enforce
policies to protect domestic firms at the expense of foreign firms. However, since courts are …

The past decade has witnessed a worldwide explosion of work aimed at illuminating judicial-
behavior: the choices judges make and the consequences of their choices. We focus on …

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

Substantial research and policymaking have focused on the importance of lawyers in
ensuring access to civil justice. But do lawyers matter more in cases decided by certain …

Amid the recent global trend toward restricting noncompete agreements (NCAs), we assess
and identify critical research gaps in the NCA literature, notably the scarcity of NCA studies …

Local exposure to conservative news causes judges to impose harsher criminal sentences.
Our evidence comes from an instrumental variable analysis, where randomness in television …

The objective of this article is to establish whether the judges depend on relevant facts,
judicial rules, and the law when making their judgments or they use extraneous factors such …