Co-organizers Tonja Jacobi, Jonathan Nash & Joanna Shepherd are delighted to announce that CELS 2024, hosted by Emory University School of Law, will take place on . A call for papers will follow later this spring ..read more

Hosted by BYU Law School in Provo, Utah, and scheduled for October th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference invite proposals for individual papers and panels (additional conference info here). Conference organizers welcome proposals on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: . Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to ..read more

“Using variation in federal pandemic-era fiscal aid to states driven by the strength of political representation, we find that incremental pandemic-era fiscal aid to states was most likely to end up in the categories of general administrative service spending and employee pension benefit funding. Spending on categories that motivated the aid in the first place, such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure, may also have responded but does not show robust patterns. Total state government revenues and expenditures had increased by around 70 cents per incremental windfall dollar of committed ..read more

"Regulators more often bail out “Too-Big-To-Fail” banks than others, but this may not imply preferential treatment as commonly believed. Bailouts are complex dynamic processes involving more than one-time aid, so harsh treatments elsewhere in the process may counter the benefits of the higher likelihood of bailouts for these banks. Using bailout data from 22 European countries we find relatively harsh treatment for Globally-Systemically Important Banks. Regulators bail out G-SIBs at later stages of financial deterioration, impose stronger restrictions, and withdraw aid after less significant r ..read more

"In other words, not only is the red-blue divide of little effect for the vast bulk of criminal law, but the factors that do have effect are numerous and varied. The U.S. does not in fact have red codes and blue codes. More importantly, the dynamics of criminal law formulation suggest that distinctive red codes and blue codes are never likely to exist because the formulation of most criminal law rules are the product of a complex collection of influences apart from red-blue." assumption that deeply red and deeply blue criminal law rules would differ and a comparison that tilts toward finding d ..read more

The exclusive submission window for the Volume 119 Empirical Issue of the  which is pleased to announce its 7th annual issue dedicated to empirical legal scholarship, to be published in March 2025. According to the student editors, they seek "to bring cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, empirical work to our legal audience, and enrich our understanding of the law, legal actors, and legal doctrine through robust and reliable examination of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method data." To access to past  or reach out to Alisher Juzgenbayev, Senior Empirical Editor for the    ..read more

"Does the partisan composition of three-judge panels affect how earlier opinions are treated and thus how the law develops? Using a novel data set of Shepard’s treatments for all cases decided in the U.S. courts of appeals from 1974 to 2017, we investigate three different versions of this question. … We find that partisanship does, in fact, structure whether earlier opinions are followed and that these partisan effects have grown over time—particularly within the subset of cases that we believe are most likely to be ideologically salient. Since legal doctrine is developed by building upon or d ..read more

"Regulators more often bail out “Too-Big-To-Fail” banks than others, but this may not imply preferential treatment as commonly believed. Bailouts are complex dynamic processes involving more than one-time aid, so harsh treatments elsewhere in the process may counter the benefits of the higher likelihood of bailouts for these banks. Using bailout data from 22 European countries we find relatively harsh treatment for Globally-Systemically Important Banks. Regulators bail out G-SIBs at later stages of financial deterioration, impose stronger restrictions, and withdraw aid after less significant r ..read more

"Does the partisan composition of three-judge panels affect how earlier opinions are treated and thus how the law develops? Using a novel data set of Shepard’s treatments for all cases decided in the U.S. courts of appeals from 1974 to 2017, we investigate three different versions of this question. … We find that partisanship does, in fact, structure whether earlier opinions are followed and that these partisan effects have grown over time—particularly within the subset of cases that we believe are most likely to be ideologically salient. Since legal doctrine is developed by building upon or d ..read more

The exclusive submission window for the Volume 119 Empirical Issue of the  which is pleased to announce its 7th annual issue dedicated to empirical legal scholarship, to be published in March 2025. According to the student editors, they seek "to bring cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, empirical work to our legal audience, and enrich our understanding of the law, legal actors, and legal doctrine through robust and reliable examination of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method data." To access to past  or reach out to Alisher Juzgenbayev, Senior Empirical Editor for the    ..read more