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Tonja Jacobi

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

375 E. Chicago Ave

Chicago, IL 60611

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1.

The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jul 2007
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi and Maxim Sytch
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 501 (45,815)
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intellectual property, ideology, politics, attitudinal model, empirical, supreme court, federal circuit, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret

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Legal Doctrine and Political Control

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Legal Doctrine and Political Control

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 05-11
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Tonja Jacobi and Emerson H. Tiller
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 340 (78,578)
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Positive Political Theory, Legal Doctrine, Judicial Hierarchy

Legal Doctrine and Political Control

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 326-345, 2007
Posted: 23 Jun 2008
Tonja Jacobi and Emerson H. Tiller
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

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The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Decisions

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 341-358, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2010
Lee Epstein and Tonja Jacobi
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 263 (71,277)
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Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property: An Empirical Study

California Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 801, 2009, The DePaul University College of Law, Technology, Law & Culture Research Series Paper No. 09-009
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 29 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2010
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi and Maxim Sytch
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 244 (103,291)
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Intellectual Property, Ideology, Politics, Attitudinal model, Empirical

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The Judicial Signaling Game: How Judges Shape Their Dockets

Supreme Court Economic Review, 2006, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 05-09
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Courts, information asymmetry, agenda setting, certiorari, litigation

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Competing Models of Judicial Coalition Formation and Case Outcome Determination

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Competing Models of Judicial Coalition Formation and Case Outcome Determination

Northwestern Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-09
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2009
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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law and economics, legal procedure, the legal system and illegal behavior, econometric and statistical methods, analysis of collective decision-making, economic models of political processes

Competing Models of Judicial Coalition Formation and Case Outcome Determination

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 411-458, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Aug 2009
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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competing, models, judicial, coalition, formation, case outcome, determination, Jacobi

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The Law and Economics of the Exclusionary Rule

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2012
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking - The Role of Antitrust Revisited

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-006, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-05
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 12 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2012
David D. Haddock, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University - School of Law and Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Antitrust, Competition, Sport, League Structure, Promotion-and-relegation

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Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases

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Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 24 May 2012
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Judicial behavior, Empirical legal studies, Measurement, Ideology, Collegiality, Strategic behavior, Intellectual property, Supreme Court

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law

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Judicial behavior, Empirical legal studies, Measurement, Ideology, Collegiality, Strategic behavior, Intellectual property, Supreme Court

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The Subtle Unraveling of Federalism: The Illogic of Using State Legislation as Evidence of an Evolving National Consensus

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 05-15, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 05-19, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 84, 2006
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 29 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 04 May 2010
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 154 (151,027)
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cruel and unusual, eighth amendment, constitutional law, death penalty, Supreme Court, state legislation, federalism, methodology

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Strategy and Tactics in NFIB v. Sebelius

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-14
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2012
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Constitutional law, Judicial politics, Commerce clause, federalism

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Acknowledging Guilt: Forcing Self-Identification in Post-Conviction DNA Testing

Northwestern University School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 04 May 2010
Tonja Jacobi and Gwendolyn Carroll
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University
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DNA, screening, innocence project, post-conviction, private information, constitutional criminal, constitutional, criminal

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How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court

USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 05-21, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 846585, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 04 May 2010
Vanessa Anne Baird and Tonja Jacobi
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 129 (186,980)
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Supreme Court, Ideology, Dissent, Majority, Federalism, Coalition

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The Attrition of Rights Under Parole

87 Southern California Law Review 887 (2014) , UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-37
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Tonja Jacobi, L. Song Richardson and Gregory Barr
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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parole, criminal law, search & seizure, constitutional rights, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, stops, frisk, search, arrest, empirical

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Why Judges Always Vote

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Why Judges Always Vote

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 13-19
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 May 2013 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2013
Tonja Jacobi and Eugene Kontorovich
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University Law School
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courts, judges, voting, median voter, abstention

Why Judges Always Vote

2 Revista Forumul Judecătorilor 80 (2013), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-29,
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 May 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2014
Tonja Jacobi and Eugene Kontorovich
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University Law School
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courts, judges, voting, median voter, abstention

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Miranda 2.0

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 06 Sep 2015
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Miranda, Interrogation, False Confesssion, Police, Innocence, Psychology

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litigation, judges, economic growth, divided government

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The Impact of Positive Political Theory on Old Questions of Constitutional Law and the Separation of Powers

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 May 2010
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Positive Political Theory, Ideology, Strategy, Legalism, Separation of Powers

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Criminal Innovation and the Warrant Requirement: Reconsidering the Rights-Police Efficiency Trade-Off

William & Mary Law Review, Forthcoming, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-19
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2014
Tonja Jacobi and Jonah Kind
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Constiutional Criminal Procedure, Fourth Amendment, Warrant, Criminal Innovation, Email, Encryption

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Filibuster, Reconciliation, Legislation, Constitution, Judicial Review, Majoritarianism

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Super Medians

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 May 2010
Lee Epstein and Tonja Jacobi
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 41 (315,341)
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Supreme Court, Median, Ideology, Measurement, Power, Judiciary

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Strategic Judicial Preference Revelation

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Mar 2012
Álvaro E. Bustos and Tonja Jacobi
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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The Hidden Psychology of Constitutional Criminal Procedure

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 Sep 2015
Jesse-Justin Cuevas and Tonja Jacobi
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Gender, Juveniles, Mental Disability, Psychology, Consent, Waiver, Miranda, Interrogation, Police, Terry Stops

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Judicial Agenda Setting Through Signaling and Strategic Litigant Responses

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 29, 2009, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 10-18
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 May 2010 Last Revised: 11 May 2010
Vanessa Anne Baird and Tonja Jacobi
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 33 (381,153)
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Supreme Court, Signalling, Agenda Setting, Litigants, Certiorari

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Sharing the Love: The Political Power of Remedial Delay in Same-Sex Marriage Cases

Law & Sexuality, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 May 2010
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Same-sex Marriage, Civil Union, Gay Rights, Judiciary, Legislature, Strategic Interaction

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Creating a Self-Stabilizing Constitution: The Role of the Takings Clause

Northwestern University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jan 2015
Tonja Jacobi, Sonia Mittal and Barry R. Weingast
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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constitutions, self-enforcing, political institutions, takings clause

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The Second Dimension of the Supreme Court

William & Mary Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2015
Joshua B. Fischman and Tonja Jacobi
University of Virginia School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Supreme Court, Empirical Legal Studies, Policy, Legalism, Pragmatism, Formalism, Ideology, Politics

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The Senatorial Courtesy Game: Explaining the Norm of Informal Vetoes in ‘Advice and Consent’ Nominations

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 193-217, 2005
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 May 2010
Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Senatorial Courtesy, Norms, Vetoes, Judicial Nominations, President, Senate, Confirmation

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A Theory of Judicial Retirement

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-33
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2014
Álvaro E. Bustos and Tonja Jacobi
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Probability of Retirement, Supreme Court, Median Ideology, Judicial Ideology

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Communicating Judicial Retirement

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-32
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2014
Álvaro E. Bustos and Tonja Jacobi
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Retirement, Supreme Court, Costless Signaling

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Supreme Irrelevance: The Court's Abdication in Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2018
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 22 Jun 2018
Tonja Jacobi and Ross Berlin
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Minnesota Court of Appeals #315B
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criminal procedure, supreme court, death penalty, search and seizure, terry stops, plea bargaining

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The New Oral Argument: Justices as Advocates

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 94, 2019
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2018
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Supreme Court, Oral argument, decision-making, ideology, advocacy, polarization, empirical legal studies

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Judicial Conflicts and Voting Agreement: Evidence from Interruptions at Oral Argument

Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2018
Tonja Jacobi and Kyle Rozema
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments

103 Virginia Law Review 1379 (2017), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-03
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2017
Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Oral arguments, Supreme Court, ideology, gender, seniority, interruptions, judicial behavior, advocate behavior

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Judicial Choice Among Cases for Certiorari

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2016
Álvaro E. Bustos and Tonja Jacobi
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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Cert, distribution of judicial ideologies, distribution of judicial cases, Supreme Court