Empirical legal scholarship (ELS) is arguably the next big thing in legal intellectual thought.
ELS, as the term is generally used in law schools, refers to a specific type of empirical …

Numerology is swee** the professions. In the past decade, both medicine and business
have witnessed a radical growth in efforts to subject common wisdoms to empirical testing …

Rankings have been an important element of the law school environment since US. News &
World Report (" US News") first published law school rankings in 1987.1 This Symposium …

Undertaking empirical research in law can be a daunting task, one for which current
undergraduate and postgraduate legal education does not provide a great deal of …

Legal scholarship in the United States is an oddity-an institution built on student editorship, a
lack of peer review, and a dramatically high proportion of solo authorship. It is often argued …

Peanut butter and jelly. Abbott and Costello. Hall and Oates. Cooter and Ulen. History is
replete with great partnerships where the whole seems to exceed the sum of the parts. What …

Judgement Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in
contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution? Our Constitution …

In recent years, the field of empirical legal studies has grown exponentially.'Although
empirical methods have been used to study some areas of lawcorporate law, securities …

I have an Erd6s number. Specifically, I have an Erd6s number of 5. For the uninitiated, the
concept of an" Erd6s number" was created by mathematicians to describe how many" …

Disciplines are, however, capable of mimicking interdisciplinarity and sometimes do so as
means of expanding their turf and seeking access to new resources. Professor Jack Balkin …