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Legal Profession
"The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project: A Comparative Analysis of the 2009 Survey Data" (Co-authoried with Michael Trebilcock and Jamie Baxter) U. of Toronto Press Edited Volume [forthcoming].
"What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation: An Empirical Study" (with Richard A. Posner), 63 Stanford Law Review (2011).
"The Importance of Litigant Wealth (Symposium)", 59 DePaul Law Review 649-73 (2010).
"Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?" (with Jesse Rothstein), 75 University of Chicago Law Review 649-714 (2008).
"The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability" (with David Abrams), 74 University of Chicago Law Review 345-377 (2007).
2007 Ronald H. Coase Prize for best paper in law and economics
"Does Frye or Daubert Matter? A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards" (with Edward Cheng), 91 Virginia Law Review 471-513 (2005).
"Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics (with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 237-264 (2001).
Torts
"Symposium of FRCP 68: Lessons from New Jersey", 57 Mercer Law Review 825-835 (2006).
"A Market Solution to Civil Litigation?: An Empirical Study of Offer-of-Judgment Rules" (with Tom Baker), 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 155-196 (2006).
"Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West", 6 American Law & Economics Review 95-134 (2004).
"Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South", 3 American Law & Economics Review 199-227 (2001).
Courts
"The Politics of Leaving the Cour (co-authored with Michael Bailey), Journal of Theoretical Politics [forthcoming 2011].
"Judicial Ghostwriting: Authorship on the U.S. Supreme Court", (co-authored with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal), Cornell Law Review [forthcoming 2011].
"Detecting Multiple Authorship of United States Supreme Court Legal Decisions Using Function Words", (co-authored with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal), Annals of Applied Statistics (2011).
"Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and the Paradox of Managerial Judging" (with Tracey George), 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1-64 (2008).
"Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, 1869-2002", 8 American Law & Economics Review 143-180 (2006).
"As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure", 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 494-549 (2005).
"Love's Labor's Lost: Judicial Tenure among Lower Federal Court Judges, 1945-2000", 90 California Law Review 1029-1060 (2003).
"The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective" (Symposium, co-authored with Tracey George), 47 St. Louis Law Journal 819-834 (2003).
American Political Development
"Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation and the Income of African Americans" (with Orley Ashenfelter and William Collins) (symposium on 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education), 8 American Law & Economics Review 213-248 (2006).
"Pan-Ethnicity Revisited: Asian Indians, Asian-American Politics, and the Voting Rights Act (with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8-30 (2005).
"The Consequences of National Parties and Corporate Money for "Political Safeguards"" (with Paul Frymer), 96 Northwestern University Law Review 977-1026 (2002).
Corporate Law
"What Else Matters for Corporate Governance?: The Case of Bank Monitoring" (with Joanna Shepard and Fred Tung), 88 Boston University Law Review 991-1041 (2008).
Other
"Mismatch in Law School" (with Jesse Rothstein) National Bureau of Economic Research publication (2008).
"Politics and Precedence: The Legislative History of Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing in the 1994 Crime Bill and 1995 Amendments" (Peter Greenwood) RAND Publication 1996.
Current Projects and Papers
"Trial and Settlement" (with JJ Prescott and Kathy Spier): developing a formal and theoretical codel of high-low agreements and the conditions under which litigants elect to use them (submitted for review).
"Litigant Wealth and Evolution of Legal Precedent?", (co-authored with Richard Startz), A formal model describing how disparities in legal representation can affect case outcomes and the evolution of legal precedent (submitted for review).
"Does Tort Law Deter?", (co-authored with Jonathan Cardi and Randall Penfield), Experimental survey design to examine the extent to which tort law influences individual behavior and perceptions (submitted for review).
"Constitutional Conflict Over Geography" (co-authored with Paul Frymer) An examination of the conflict arising from the Supreme Court doctrines embracing unconstrained comapaign contributions with a commitment to geographically-defined voting.
"Matching Among High-Skilled Workers: A Study of the Legal Academic Labor Market", (coauthored with Tracey George), examining the factors that influence how law schools and applicants make employment decisions.
"Mechanism Design of Legal Representation", An examination of how legal representation by salaried and contract lawyers through randomized case assignment.
"The Impact of DUI Enforcement on Human Capital and Public Safety", (co-authored with Lamar Pierce and Jason Snyder), Use of regression discontinuity to evaluate the effect of DUI convictions on individuals’ education, employment, and crime.
"Managing Litigation Risk" (with JJ Prescott): studying theoretically and empirically why litigants elect to resolve disputes through formal litigation.
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