Empirical Legal Studies

While trademark law resides a bit afar from my usual "sandboxes," a recent paper in this area accompanies the release of a related...

Employers' recent turn to AI to screen job applications raises concerns about algorithmic bias. This concern, in turn, has fueled effort...

As I come across comparatively fewer empirical tax papers than I do for other law-related fields, I was delighted to stumble across Tax Diff...

As Stata graphics commands are filled with many deep and overly-complicated "rabbit holes," it's nice to come across developme...

Shareholder oppression laws set out to protect minority shareholders in closely held corporations. As the scope and contours of these protec...

Government extractions of assets through forfeiture remain an increasingly contested topic.  Asset forfeitures are often significant for peo...

In the xtivreg  world, for example, while Sargan-Hansen testing helps assess instrumental variable efficacy, researchers also typically conf...

For the underlying datasets themselves, movement across various software platforms are most easily achieved via third-party software (I'...

A steady decline in insanity claims by defendants in criminal cases over time juxtaposes with a concurrent increase in claims that defendant...

Call for Papers -- Deadline Extension Conference on Empirical Legal Studies October 2-3, 2026   The 2026 Conference on Empirical Legal Studi...