Judges & Jurisprudence

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

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).

Howard M. Erichson, John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Case-Linked Jurisdiction and Busybody States, 105 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 54 (2020).

John C.P. Goldberg, The Life of the Law, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 1419 (1999) (reviewing Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo (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).

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

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).

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

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