Judges & Jurisprudence

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

Victoria Angelova, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Algorithmic Recommendations When the Stakes Are High: Evidence from Judicial Elections, 114 Am. Econ. Ass’n Papers &…

Victoria Angelova, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion, The Review of Economic Studies (2025).

David Arnold, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Comment on Canay, Mogstad, and Mountjoy (Sept. 1, 2020).

David Arnold, Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, Racial Bias in Bail Decisions, 133 Q.J. Econ. 1885 (2018).

Crystal S. Yang, Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence From Judicial Vacancies, 8 AEJ: Econ. Pol’y 289 (2016).

Crystal S. Yang, Have Interjudge Sentencing Disparities Increased in an Advisory Guidelines Regime? Evidence from Booker, 89 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1268 (2014).

Crystal S. Yang, Free at Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing, 44 J. Legal Stud. 75 (2015).

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

Laurence H. Tribe, Soundings and Silences, in The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective 21 (Rosalind Dixon & Adrienne Stone eds., 2018).

Mark Tushnet, Judicial Time: A Research Note, SSRN (Sept. 5, 2025).

Anna Lvovsky, Fourth Amendment Moralism, 166 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1189 (2018).

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

Jared A. Ellias & Elisabeth de Fontenay, Law and Courts in an Age of Debt, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev 2025 (2023).

Andrew C. Mergen, Public Lands and the Supreme Court: The Case of Chief Justice John Roberts, 40 Natural Resources & Environment 44 (2026).

Jack Goldsmith, Presidential Greatness and the Fragility of Judicial Supremacy: 2025 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture (2025).

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, The Roberts Court Paradox, 94 Fordham Law Review 1 (2025).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1313 (2012).

Alma Cohen, The Pervasive Influence of Political Affiliation on Circuit Court Decisions, ProMarket (Jan. 22, 2024).

Vicki C. Jackson, Pockets of Proportionality: Choice and Necessity, Doctrine and Principle, in Comparative Judicial Review 357 (Erin F. Delaney & Rosalind Dixon eds, 2018).

Vicki C. Jackson, Accommodating an Old Constitution to the 21st Century State: of Law and Politics, in The Evolution of the Separation of Powers Between…