Empirical Legal Studies

Micha Kaiser, Manuela Bernauer, Cass R. Sunstein & Lucia A. Reisch, The Power of Green Defaults: The Impact of Regional Variation of Opt-out Tariffs on…

William L. Meadow, Anthony Bell & Cass R. Sunstein, Statistics, Not Memories: What Was the Standard of Care for Administering Antenatal Steroids to Women in…

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Liability for Non-Disclosure in IPOs, 42 The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 281 (2025).

Xinyu Hua & Kathryn E. Spier, Holding Platforms Liable, 17 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 68 (2025).

Christopher R. Berry & Jacob E. Gersen, Election Timing and Public Policy, 6 Q.J. Pol. Sci. 103 (2011).

Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, Conflicts of Interest in Japanese Insolvencies: The Problem of Bank Rescues, 6 Theoretical Inquiries L. 301 (2005).

Allison K. Hoffman & Howell E. Jackson, Retiree Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending: A Study of Consumer Expectations and Policy Implications, 39 Am. J.L. & Med. 62…

Lukas Holste & Holger Spamann, Experimental Investigations of Judicial Decision-Making, in The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence (Kevin P. Tobia ed., 2025).

Holger Spamann, Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”, 14 Am. Econ. J.: Applied Econ. 519 (2022).

Holger Spamann & Lars Klöhn, Can Law Students Replace Judges in Experiments of Judicial Decision-Making?, 1 J.L. & Empirical Analysis 1 (2024).

Holger Spamann et al., Judges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common/Civil Law Differences, 13 J. Legal Analysis 110 (2021).

Daniel M. Klerman & Holger Spamann, Law Matters — Less Than We Thought, J. L., Econ., & Org. (2022).

Holger Spamann, The “Antidirector Rights Index” Revisited, 23 Rev. Fin. Stud. 467 (2010) (The documentation, data, and code are available at http://bit.ly/mdfmwM or http://bit.ly/mnIp1r).

Holger Spamann, Empirical Comparative Law, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2015).

D. James Greiner, Matthew Stubenberg & Renee Danser, Criminal Justice Record Clearing: An Analysis from Two States, 100 N.D. L. Rev. 11 (2025).

D. James Greiner, Ellen Lee Degnan, Thomas Ferriss & Roseanna Sommers, Using Random Assignment to Measure Court Accessibility for Low-Income Divorce Seekers, 118 Proc. of…

Eli Ben-Michael, D. James Greiner, Kosuke Imai, et al., Safe Policy Learning through Extrapolation: Application to Pre-trial Risk Assessment, 120 Journal of the American Statistical…

Holly Fernandez Lynch, D. James Greiner & I. Glenn Cohen, Overcoming Obstacles to Experiments in Legal Practice, 367 Science 1078 (2020).