Judges & Jurisprudence

Michael C. Dorf & Laurence H. Tribe, Levels of Generality in the Definition of Rights, 57 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1057 (1990).

Louis Kaplow, The Value of Accuracy in Adjudication: An Economic Analysis, 23 J. Legal Stud. 307 (1994).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Accuracy in the Determination of Liability, 37 J.L. & Econ. 1 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Antitrust, Law and Economics, and the Courts, 50 Law & Contemp. Probs. 181 (1987).

William M. Landes, Lawrence Lessig & Michael E. Solimine, Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271…

Jack L. Goldsmith & Curtis Bradley, Federal Courts and the Incorporation of International Law, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 2260 (1998).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan, 4 J. Legal Analysis 365 (2012).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach, 23 J. Legal Stud. 721 (1994).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, 13 J.L. Econ. & Org. 259 (1997).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases?, 95 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 331 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan, 32 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 38 (2012).

J. Mary Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Political Uncertainty’s Effect on Judicial Recruitment and Retention: Japan in the 1990s, 35 J. Comp. Econ. 329 (2007).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High?, 30 J. Legal Stud. 53 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993, 154 U.. Pa. L.

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United…

Intisar A. Rabb, Metacanons: Comparative Textualism (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper No. 22-24, 2022).

Henry E. Smith, Equity as Second-Order Law: The Problem of Opportunism (Jan. 15, 2015).

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

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

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

Natalie Salmanowitz & Holger Spamann, Does the Supreme Court Really Not Apply Chevron When It Should?, 57 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 81 (2019).