Empirical Legal Studies
"The ELS blog serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship, provide conference updates, discuss empirical claims that have emerged in public and political discourse, facilitate discussion for guest empirical scholars and assess current empirical findings and methodologies."
Author: Among the authors are the following law professors: William Henderson of Indiana University; Jason Czarnezki of Vermont Law School; Michael Heise and Theodore Eisenberg of Cornell; William Ford of the John Marshall Law School; Frank Cross of the University of Texas; David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to SCOTUSblog; and Carolyn Shapiro of Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Recent Posts from Empirical Legal Studies
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More on Judicial Pay
Chief Justice Roberts made the following (familiar) plea in his year-end report on the Federal Judiciary:I suspect many are tired of hearing it, and I know I am tired of saying it, but I must…
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Chicago Tribune on Law Firms and the Economy
Yesterday's Chicago Tribune covered "the end of a great run for the industry." The reporter interviewed our own Bill Henderson for the article.
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Judge Harlington Wood, Jr. (1920-2008)
Judge Wood died on Monday at age 88. Today's Chicago Tribune includes an obituary for him. His memoir, An Unmarked Trail, is available here.
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Judicial Pay Debate Data
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy Eric Posner brings logitudinal data to the judicial pay debate. The data come from a paper on the same topic, Are Judges Overpaid?: A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary…
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The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation
In a new book by our too-modest co-ELS blogger, Frank Cross (Texas) offers a rare empirical assessment of competing theories of judicial statutory interpretation. Frank's book, The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation (Stanford Press),…
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Selling BigLaw Short
It is mid-December and the vast majority of large law firms are frantically pressing their clients for their fees in order to pay down the firm's credit lines and generate a profit pool that can…
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Otto Kerner: Illinois Governor, 7th Cir. Judge, Felon
Here in Illinois we have some well-known difficulties with our elected officials. Various reports about Rod Blagojevich since Tuesday have run through our list of not-so-distinguished former governors. One is Otto Kerner, Jr., governor from…
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SCOTUS Clerks (Shameless Self-Promotion Remix)
We've hosted some discussions about Supreme Court clerks here in the past, so I thought I'd draw readers' attention to Adam Liptak's story in his "Sidebar" column in the NY Times today. Adam profiles a…
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How many steps in the Chevron dance?
I recently came across two articles on SRRN and forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review: Chevron's Two Steps by Bamberger and Strauss (Columbia) and Chevron Has Only One Step by Stephenson and Vermeule (Harvard). Both…
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College Applications & Athletic Prowess
As the college football bowl season ramps up, I thought that a recent paper by Devin G. Pope (Penn--Wharton) & Jaren C. Pope (Virgina Tech) was especially timely. In Understanding College Application Decisions: Why College…