Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Article	Citations
Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy	43
The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time ofCOVID: An empirical perspective	18
Does the 1L curriculum make a difference?	13
Market versus policy responses to novel occupational risks	13
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations	12
Bridging the Human– AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision‐Making	11
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Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions	8
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Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment	7
Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes	7
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Constitutional accountability for police shootings	6
U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977–2020: Introducing New Datasets	6
Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution	6
Private security and public police	6
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Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation	5
Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence	5
The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks	4
Charging sex traffickers under federal law: What dispositions should we expect when applying theories on prosecutorial decision‐making?	4

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Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value	4
Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida	4
Stay at home if you can: COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home guidelines and local crime	4
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Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law	3
Centered Advantage: A Geographic Measure of Partisan Fairness in Redistricting	3
Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals	3
The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions	3
Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel—Panel effects in the German Constitutional Court	3
Issue Information	3
Law, Justice and Reason‐Giving	3
A study of pandemic and stigma effects in removal proceedings	3
Foreword JELS 22.4 (December 2025)	3
Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices	3
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One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials	3
Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws	2
Correction to “Paying for Performance? Attorneys' Fees in Fraud Class Actions”	2
Does greater police funding help catch more murderers?	2
Molecular Diagnostic Patenting After Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis	2
JD‐Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students' success in law school	2
Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?	2
No Adjudication	2
Framing negligence	2
Who donates and how? New evidence on the tax incentives in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland	2
The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments	2
Foreword	2
The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment	2
Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention	2
Issue Information	2
“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court	1
Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000–2020	1
The Distance Factor in Remedies	1
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The effect of judges' gender on decisions regarding intimate‐partner violence	1
Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine	1
Do data breach notification laws reduce medical identity theft? Evidence from consumer complaints data	1
How Binding Is Administrative Guidance? An Empirical Study of Guidance, Rules, and the Courts Telling Them Apart	1
Paying for performance? Attorneys' fees in fraud class actions	1
Sudden lockdown repeals, social mobility, and COVID‐19: Evidence from a judicial natural experiment	1
Measuring the Perceived (In)accessibility of Courts and Lawyers	1
Building a better lawyer: Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency	1
The impact of legal representation in Israeli traffic courts: Addressing selection bias and generalizability problems	1
Appellate court assignments as a natural experiment: Gender panel effects in sex discrimination cases	1
The value of legal recourse in sovereign bond markets: Evidence from Argentina	1
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems	1
Normative Ambiguity, Social Norms, and the Expressive Power of Law	0
Settlementality	0
Network analysis of lawyer referral markets: Evidence from Indiana	0

Strategic subdelegation	0
Dispute Resolution in the Signaling Model: A Comparison of Arbitration Mechanisms	0
Do doctors prescribe antibiotics out of fear of malpractice?	0
Can Legal Knowledge Save Lives? A Randomized Experiment in Preventive Health Screenings	0
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Property rights and market behavior in thelow‐incomehousing sector: Evidence from Chile	0
Government Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From China	0
Settlement schemas: How laypeople understand civil settlement	0
Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador	0
Does Group Familiarity Improve Deliberations in Judicial Teams? Evidence from the German Federal Court of Justice	0
Self‐nudging contracts and the positive effects of autonomy—Analyzing the prospect of behavioral self‐management	0
Litigation with negative expected value suits: An experimental analysis	0
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Do Firearm Markets Comply with Firearm Restrictions? How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Registered Firearm Sales	0
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Does an initial public offering (IPO) issuer's Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee calculation method predict pricing revisions and IPO underpricing?	0
Measuring Lawyer Mental Illness: Evidence From Two National Surveys	0
A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices	0
Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection	0
Hallucination‐Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools	0
Automating Abercrombie: Machine‐learning trademark distinctiveness	0
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Managerial litigation risk and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from universal demand laws	0
Powerful CEOs and Corporate Governance	0
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Effect of financial incentives onhospital‐cardiologistintegration and cardiac test location	0
Introducing twin corpora of decisions for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)	0
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Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools	0
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The impact of paid sick leave laws on consumer and business bankruptcies	0
How accurate are rebuttable presumptions of pretrial dangerousness? A natural experiment from New Mexico	0
Gender gaps in legal education: The impact of class participation assessments	0
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Intensified support for juvenile offenders on probation: Evidence from Germany	0
Perception Pending: What Do Patents Signal to Consumers?	0
Gun Laws and Justifiable Homicides: Contrasting Impacts on Civilians and Police	0
Pay Secrecy Bans and the Sharing of Salary Information Among US Workers	0
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Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions	0
Network Analysis of Innovation in Legal Scholarship: Law & Economics, Law & Society, and Empirical Legal Studies	0
Emotional bargaining after litigation: An experimental study of the Coase theorem	0
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Measuring law's normative force	0
Examining the effects of antidiscrimination laws on children in the foster care and adoption systems	0
A statistical approach to law school citation rankings	0
The market for general counsel	0
Leases as Forms	0
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Plea Bargaining Procedures Worldwide: Drivers of Introduction and Use	0
Ideological bias in constitutional judgments: Experimental analysis and potential solutions	0
Beyond republicans and the disapproval of regulations: A new empirical approach to the Congressional Review Act	0
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment	0
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Data‐Driven Accommodations: Testing Religious Exemptions in Markets With Discrimination	0
The limits of diplomacy by treaty: Evidence from China's bilateral investment treaty program	0
Judicial Perceptions of Legal Difficulty: An Empirical Inquiry	0
Biases in legal decision‐making: Comparing prosecutors, defense attorneys, law students, and laypersons	0
Chapter 13 Outcomes	0
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Lawyers' legal aid participation: A qualitative and quantitative analysis	0
Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs	0
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment	0
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An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes	0
Foreword	0
The company they keep: When and why Chinese judges engage in collegiality	0
The usage and utility of body‐worn camera footage in courts: A survey analysis of state prosecutors	0
Bargaining power in the market for intellectual property: Evidence from licensing contract terms	0
Consent searches: Evaluating the usefulness of a common and highly discretionary police practice	0
Foreword to JELS special issue	0
Do Representative Payments Matter? An Empirical Study	0
Should patients use online reviews to pick their doctors and hospitals?	0
The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway	0
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The readability of contracts: Big data analysis	0
Gender, race, and job satisfaction of law graduates: Intersectional evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates	0
The influence of the race of defendant and the race of victim on capital charging and sentencing in California	0
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Paid medical malpractice claims: How strongly does the past predict the future?	0
Does judicial foreclosure procedure help delinquent subprime mortgage borrowers?	0
Consent searches and underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample	0
The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds	0