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1.

Mechanisms for Reducing Criminal Recidivism: Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Jul 2011
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Gregory J. DeAngelo, Gary Charness and Beth A. Freeborn
Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics and
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Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypotheses: Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007)

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 234, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 429, University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1115405, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Sep 2010
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Paul J. Heald
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 315
3.

Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

American Economic Review, Forthcoming, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 604, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2009
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Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier
University of Alberta - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty

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Changing the Paradigm of Stock Ownership: From Concentrated Towards Dispersed Ownership? Evidence from Brazil and Consequences for Emerging Countries

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 11 Sep 2008
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Érica Gorga and Érica Gorga
Yale University - Center for the Study of Corporate LawSão Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV DIREITO SP

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5.

The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Aug 2008
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John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Valerie P. Hans
Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - School of Law
Downloads 245
6.

How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jul 2008
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Charles J. Brainerd, Lilian Milnitsky Stein, R. A. Silveira, Gustavo Rohenkohl and Valerie F. Reyna
Cornell University, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, University of Oxford - Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Cornell University
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7.

Cash-Flow and Market Response to Repatriation

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2008
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Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
Downloads 364
8.

The Changing Economic Geography of Large U.S. Law Firms

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 May 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2013
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William D. Henderson and Arthur S. Alderson
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Sociology

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Settlement at Policy Limits and the Duty to Settle: Evidence From Texas

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper LE09-002, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-16, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 142, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 May 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2010
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David A. Hyman, Bernard S. Black and Charles Silver
Georgetown University Law Center, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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10.

How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 755, 2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-22, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1101068
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 17 May 2008 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2009
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Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 1,337
11.

Dead or Alive: An Investigation of the Incidence of Estate and Inheritance Taxes

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 May 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2008
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Lily L. Batchelder and Surachai Khitatrakun
New York University School of Law and Tax Policy Center
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12.

The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 May 2008 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2010
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Scott Hankins, Mark Hoekstra and Paige Marta Skiba
University of Kentucky, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Vanderbilt University - Law School

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13.

Mandated Justice: The Potential Promise and Possible Pitfalls of Mandating Procedural Justice in the Workplace

Regulation and Governance, 2011, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 May 2008 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
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Yuval Feldman and Tom Tyler
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 125
14.

Reporting Civil Litigation on Local Television News

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 96, Version 2a, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers (revised)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 May 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2008
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Herbert M. Kritzer and Robert E. Drechsel
University of Minnesota Law School and University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Journalism & Mass Communication
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The Changing Face of the Congressional Black Caucus

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 May 2008
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Kareem U. Crayton
affiliation not provided to SSRN

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The Political Economy of Genocide Intervention: Structural Conditionality, Collective Command Responsibility, and the Former Yugoslavia

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 May 2008
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John Hagan and Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich
Northwestern University - Department of Sociology and Michigan State University
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17.

Commercial Surety Bail and the Problem of Missed Court Appearances and Pretrial Detention

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 May 2008 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2009
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Thomas H. Cohen
Government of the United States of America - Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Downloads 368
18.

Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women in the Criminal Justice Process

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 May 2008
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Malcolm M. Feeley and Hadar Aviram
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) and UC Hastings Law
Downloads 253
19.

The Types of Chapter 11 Cases

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 84, 2010, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1128209, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2010
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Stephen J. Lubben
Seton Hall Law School
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20.

Wireless Net Neutrality Regulation and the Problem with Pricing: An Empirical, Cautionary Tale

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 May 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
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Babette Boliek
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
Downloads 395
21.

Agency Problems at Dual-Class Companies

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 209/2008
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 May 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2008
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Ronald W. Masulis, Cong Wang and Fei Xie
University of New South Wales, Sydney, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and University of Delaware - Lerner College of Business and Economics

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22.

Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-22, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1127282, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 02 May 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008
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Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch and Marcel Kahan
New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and New York University School of Law
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23.

Dispute Resolution and the Vanishing Trial: Comparing Federal Government Litigation and ADR Outcomes

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2011
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Lisa Blomgren Amsler (formerly Bingham), Tina Nabatchi, Jeffrey M. Senger and Michael Scott Jackman
Indiana University Bloomington - Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Syracuse University, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Indiana University
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24.

Where are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 126, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 05 May 2008
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Jens Dammann and Matthias Schundeln
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Goethe University Frankfurt

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If Major Wars Affect (Judicial) Fiscal Policy, How & Why?

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-08, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-18, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 14 May 2008
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Nancy C. Staudt
Washington University Law School
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The Red-Blue Divide on the Bench: An Examination of the Effects of Selection Systems on Partisan Divisions in State Supreme Court Decisions

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Posted: 25 Apr 2008
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Aman Liev McLeod
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers University, Camden
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Legal Institutions and the Democratic Order

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Apr 2008
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Jeffrey K. Staton, Christopher M. Reenock and Marius Radean
Emory University - Department of Political Science, Florida State University - Department of Political Science and Florida State University
Downloads 223
28.

Pandering Judges

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2010
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Clare Leaver and Jordi Blanes i Vidal
University of Oxford and London School of Economics

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29.

Invisible Power: The Brazilian Judicial Bureaucracy - A Study of Cases in Registry Offices

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2008
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Alves Silva
University of São Paulo (USP)
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30.

Are All Inside Directors the Same? Evidence from the External Directorship Market.

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 241/2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2012
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Ronald W. Masulis and Shawn Mobbs
University of New South Wales, Sydney and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Business Administration
Downloads 1,660
31.

Pre-Bankruptcy Dynamics and Unsecured Debt

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2008
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Koen J. L. Schoors, Peter Coussement and Bart Leyman
Ghent University - Centre for Russian International Socio-Political and Economic Studies (CERISE), Ghent University - Financial Law Institute and Ghent University - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Downloads 117
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Should the United States Designate Specialist Patent Trial Judges? An Analysis of H.R. 34 in Light of the U.K. Experience

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Apr 2008
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Donna M. Gitter
Baruch College
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Mergers and Acquisitions - Comparative Economic Analysis of Laws: France v. U.S.A.

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2013
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Georges A. J. Cavalier and Thomas Straub
University of Lyon 3 and University of Geneva - School of Business Management Fribourg (CH)
Downloads 487
34.

Does Legal Doctrine Matter? Unpacking Law and Policy Preferences on the U.S. Supreme Court

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Apr 2008
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Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman
Georgetown University - Department of Government and George Washington University
Downloads 328
35.

Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Harvard Law School Law & Economics, Research Paper No. 600, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Apr 2008
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J. Mark Ramseyer
Harvard Law School
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Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2009
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Viral V. Acharya, Viral V. Acharya, Yakov Amihud and Lubomir P. Litov
ProfessorNew York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University - Stern School of Business and University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business

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Defensive Management: Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Discourage Corporate Risk-Taking?

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 108
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2008
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Kate Litvak
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? A Test of the Perceptual Assumption in Deterrence Theory

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2008
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Robert MacCoun, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Jamie F. Chriqui, Katherine Mullan Harris and Peter H. Reuter
Stanford Law School, University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, The MayaTech Corporation, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland
Downloads 262
39.

Who Gets a Second Chance? An Investigation of Ohio's Blended Juvenile Sentence

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2008
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Fred Cheesman and Nicole L. Waters
National Center for State Courts and National Center for State Courts
Downloads 245
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Does Legally Mandated Independence of Advisers Improve Merger Outcomes for Shareholders?

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2008
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Helen Bowers, William R. Latham and Bogdan Nedanov
University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware - Department of Economics and University of Delaware
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Deciding to Agree: Explaining Consensual Behavior on the United States Supreme Court

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Apr 2008
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Pamela C. Corley, Artemus Ward and Amy Steigerwalt
Vanderbilt University, Northern Illinois University and Georgia State University
Downloads 107
42.

Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and US

as published in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 6, pp. 687-722, 2009, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 89, McCombs Research Paper Series, Paper No. FIN-02-07, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1105355, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 120, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 234
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2018
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John Armour, Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins and Richard Nolan
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of York - York Law School
Downloads 2,655
43.

Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 222/2008
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 12 May 2014
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Andrew Ellul, Marco Pagano and Fausto Panunzi
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics and Bocconi University - Department of Economics

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44.

Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN

I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2008), 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-031
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2013
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Jay P. Kesan and Andres A. Gallo
University of Illinois College of Law and University of North Florida - Dept. of Economics

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45.

Want Your Opinions Reversed? Hire a Yale Clerk (and Don't Require the Bar)

U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-8, CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2012
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Royce de Rohan Barondes
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Downloads 820
46.

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, February 2011, Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
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J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

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Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2010, U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 08-004, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010
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Daniel Martin Katz and Derek K. Stafford
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan - Department of Political Science
Downloads 1,737
48.

Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, p. 223, 2008, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 09-016
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2010
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David L. Schwartz
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 1,285
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The Real Student-Loan Scandal: Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2018
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Rafael I. Pardo and Michelle R. Lacey
Emory University School of Law and Tulane University
Downloads 1,267
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What Is Judicial Ideology, and How Should We Measure It?

29 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 133 (2009), 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-47
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2010
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Joshua B. Fischman and David S. Law
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 1,033