Judges & Jurisprudence

Vicki C. Jackson, Packages of Judicial Independence: implications for reform proposals on the selection & tenure of Article III judges, 137 Daedalus 48 (2008).

Steven Shavell, The Rationale for Motions in the Design of Adjudication 20 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 245 (2018).

Matthew C. Stephenson, Legal Realism for Economists, 23 J. Econ. Persp. 191 (2009).

Justin Fox & Matthew C. Stephenson, The Welfare Effects of Minority-Protective Judicial Review, 27 J. Theoretical Pol. 499 (2015).

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 123 Am. Hist. Rev. 1671 (2018) (reviewing William Davenport Mercer, Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations…

Mark Tushnet, The Politics of Constitutional Law, 79 Tex. L. Rev. 163 (2000)(reviewing Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (2000)).

Mark Tushnet, Scepticism about Judicial Review: A Perspective from the United States, in Sceptical Essays on Human Rights 359 (Tom Campbell, K.D. Ewing & Adam…

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, A Precedent-Based Critique of Legal Positivism (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper No. 22-06, Apr. 7, 2022).

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).

John Zhuang Liu, Lars Klöhn & Holger Spamann, Precedents and Chinese Judges: An Experiment, 69 Am. J. Comp. L. 93 (2021).

Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).

David Rosenberg, Letter to the Editor, 102 Am. Hist. Rev. 1307 (1997)(author’s response to John Henry Schlegel, review of The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of…

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Adrian Vermeule, Democracy, Disagreement, and Authority: A Response to the Symposium on Common Good Constitutionalism, Am. J. Juris. (2025).

Martha Minow, Equality, Equity, and Algorithms: Learning from Justice Rosalie Abella, 73 U. Toronto L. J. 163 (2023).

Richard Re, Justice Scalia’s uncertain legacy, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 24, 2026).

Richard Re, A Rule Against Fun, JOTWELL (July 22, 2022) (reviewing Nina Varsava, Professional Irresponsibility and Judicial Opinions, 59 Houston Law Review 103 (2021)).