Welcome to law's information revolution'-revolution already in 2 progress. While the 2008
financial crisis can be seen as the precipitating event, developments in legal information …

This article proposes a relational approach to studying judicial politics in non-Western
societies—a framework for the systematic analysis of informal relations between judges and …

The American legal system is often accused of being" too complex." For example, most
Americans believe the Tax Code is too complex. But what does that mean, and how would …

The conventional piecemeal approach to environmental treaty-making has resulted in a
'maze'of international agreements. However, little is known empirically about its overall …

Time and again judges appoint the same plaintiffs' attorneys to lead large multidistrict
litigations, then compensate them handsomely for doing so. But identifying repetitive play is …

Recent concerns over racial disparities in sentencing have led to dramatic reform in criminal
sentencing, including the widespread promulgation of sentencing guidelines that are …

Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in US circuit courts? In this
paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender …

We study the ideological balance of the legal academy and compare it with the ideology of
the legal profession more broadly. To do so, we match professors listed in the Association of …

How do complex social systems evolve in the modern world? This question lies at the heart
of social physics, and network analysis has proven critical in providing answers to it. In …

In order to study the political ideologies of judicial law clerks in the United States, we
construct a novel dataset that combines information on the identity of clerks with a measure …