Jens Frankenreiter

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Campus Box 1120

St. Louis, MO 63130

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

17

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“  I work on questions related to corporate, contract, and technology law. I am enthusiastic about the opportunities that the availability of large amounts of text and other forms of data create for legal research. A lot of my work explores how methods from economics, statistics, and data science can be leveraged to generate insights from such data that inform and enrich the legal discourse.  ”

Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Cleaning Corporate Governance

170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (2021), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-05, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-16, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No.644, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1690, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 738/2021
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 03 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2024
Jens Frankenreiter, Cathy Hwang, Yaron Nili and Eric L. Talley
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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Corporate Governance; G-Index; Corporate Law; Corporate Finance

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Natural Language Processing in Legal Tech

Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice (David Engstrom ed.) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Feb 2022
Jens Frankenreiter and Julian Nyarko
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Stanford Law School
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legal tech, nlp, natural language processing

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Computational Methods in Legal Analysis

Forthcoming, 16 Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2020), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-44, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2020-09
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 May 2020 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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computational law, machine learning, empirical legal studies, legal history, digital humanities, big data

Computational Methods in Legal Analysis

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 16, pp. 39-57, 2020
Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

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The Missing 'California Effect' in Data Privacy Law

39 Yale Journal on Regulation 1068 (2022) (published under the title "Cost-Based California Effects"), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-07-01
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 12 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2022
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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data privacy, consumer contracts, online transactions, California Effect, Brussels Effect, NLP, computational methods

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Sex & Startups

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 759/2024, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 4730878
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2024
Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis and Eric L. Talley
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, Columbia Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Law and Finance, Contract Design

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Sticky Charters? The Surprisingly Tepid Embrace of Officer-Protecting Waivers in Delaware

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 762/2024, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2025
Jens Frankenreiter and Eric L. Talley
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
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corporate governance, fiduciary duties, officer liability, natural language processing, large language models

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Forum Selling Abroad

MPI Collective Goods Discussion Paper, No. 2018/11, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2018-14, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS19-3, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 19-3
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 27 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2019
Stefan Bechtold, Jens Frankenreiter and Daniel M. Klerman
ETH Zürich, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Global Investor-Director Survey on Climate Risk Management

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 650
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2021
Columbia University - Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, International Corporate Governance Network, Columbia Law School, Allianz Global Investors, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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climate change, renewable energy, corporate governance, corporate stewardship, risk management

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Are Advocates General Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Voting Behavior of the Advocates General at the European Court of Justice

Review of Law & Economics, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2018
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 May 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2021
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 246 (255,703)
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Judge Behavior, European Court of Justice, Roll Call Model

Judicial Compliance in District Courts

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Daniel L. Chen, Jens Frankenreiter and Susan Yeh
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Charles River Associates (CRA)
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Judicial Compliance in District Courts

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Mar 2022
Daniel L. Chen and Jens Frankenreiter
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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decision making, motivated reasoning, policy preference, precedent

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Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2023
Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis and Dan Svirsky
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, Columbia Law School and Harvard Business School
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privacy, incomplete, contracts, GDPR, policies, behavioral, contract theory

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The Politics of Citations at the ECJ: Policy Preferences of EU Member State Governments and the Citation Behavior of Members of the European Court of Justice

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 813-857, 2017
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 May 2016 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2019
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Judge Behavior, European Court of Justice, Citation Analysis

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Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment on Access to Justice

52 Journal of Legal Studies 273 (2023)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2024
Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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discrimination, field experiment, audit study, access to justice

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Antitrust, Amazon, and Algorithmic Auditing

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) Forthcoming, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2024
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, ETH Zürich and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
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Amazon, antitrust, self-preferencing, Digital Markets Act, regulating at scale

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The Other Delaware Effect

Number of pages: 58
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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fee-shifting bylaws, Delaware effect, spillover effects, regulatory competition, private ordering, natural language processing, large language models

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Studying Judicial Citations and Citation Data

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour (Lee Epstein et al., eds.), forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192898579.013.28, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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precedent, citation behaviour, judicial behaviour, network analysis, computational studies

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The Limits of Smart Contracts

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), published Online First February 1, DOI: 10.1628/jite-2019-0021 (2019).
Posted: 17 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2024
Jens Frankenreiter
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Tokens, Smart Contracts, Distributed Ledgers, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Open Source, Contract Law, Regulability