Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time ofCOVID: An empirical perspective18
Does the 1L curriculum make a difference?17
Market versus policy responses to novel occupational risks13
Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy13
Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions11
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations11
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Does the Bar Exam Protect the Public?9
Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment8
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Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution7
Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes7
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Constitutional accountability for police shootings6
Private security and public police5
U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977–2020: Introducing New Datasets5
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Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence5
Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida4
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Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value4
Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation4
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Stay at home if you can: COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home guidelines and local crime4
The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks4
Charging sex traffickers under federal law: What dispositions should we expect when applying theories on prosecutorial decision‐making?4
One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials3
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Centered Advantage: A Geographic Measure of Partisan Fairness in Redistricting3
A study of pandemic and stigma effects in removal proceedings3
Foreword JELS 22.4 (December 2025)3
The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions3
Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals3
Law, Justice and Reason‐Giving3
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Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?2
Correction to “Paying for Performance? Attorneys' Fees in Fraud Class Actions”2
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Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law2
The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments2
Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices2
The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment2
Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel—Panel effects in the German Constitutional Court2
Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws2
No Adjudication2
Does greater police funding help catch more murderers?2
Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine1
How Binding Is Administrative Guidance? An Empirical Study of Guidance, Rules, and the Courts Telling Them Apart1
Measuring the Perceived (In)accessibility of Courts and Lawyers1
JD‐Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students' success in law school1
Molecular Diagnostic Patenting After Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis1
Who donates and how? New evidence on the tax incentives in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland1
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems1
The impact of legal representation in Israeli traffic courts: Addressing selection bias and generalizability problems1
Appellate court assignments as a natural experiment: Gender panel effects in sex discrimination cases1
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Framing negligence1
Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000–20201
The effect of judges' gender on decisions regarding intimate‐partner violence1
Sudden lockdown repeals, social mobility, and COVID‐19: Evidence from a judicial natural experiment1
The Distance Factor in Remedies1
“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court1
Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention1
Do data breach notification laws reduce medical identity theft? Evidence from consumer complaints data1
Building a better lawyer: Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency1
The influence of the race of defendant and the race of victim on capital charging and sentencing in California0
Examining the effects of antidiscrimination laws on children in the foster care and adoption systems0
Gender, race, and job satisfaction of law graduates: Intersectional evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates0
Paid medical malpractice claims: How strongly does the past predict the future?0
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The company they keep: When and why Chinese judges engage in collegiality0
Bargaining power in the market for intellectual property: Evidence from licensing contract terms0
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Network Analysis of Innovation in Legal Scholarship: Law & Economics, Law & Society, and Empirical Legal Studies0
Automating Abercrombie: Machine‐learning trademark distinctiveness0
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Data‐Driven Accommodations: Testing Religious Exemptions in Markets With Discrimination0
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Should patients use online reviews to pick their doctors and hospitals?0
Network analysis of lawyer referral markets: Evidence from Indiana0
How accurate are rebuttable presumptions of pretrial dangerousness? A natural experiment from New Mexico0
Emotional bargaining after litigation: An experimental study of the Coase theorem0
Dispute Resolution in the Signaling Model: A Comparison of Arbitration Mechanisms0
Plea Bargaining Procedures Worldwide: Drivers of Introduction and Use0
Gender gaps in legal education: The impact of class participation assessments0
Settlement schemas: How laypeople understand civil settlement0
The value of legal recourse in sovereign bond markets: Evidence from Argentina0
Self‐nudging contracts and the positive effects of autonomy—Analyzing the prospect of behavioral self‐management0
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment0
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The limits of diplomacy by treaty: Evidence from China's bilateral investment treaty program0
Do Firearm Markets Comply with Firearm Restrictions? How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Registered Firearm Sales0
A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices0
The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds0
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Ideological bias in constitutional judgments: Experimental analysis and potential solutions0
Understanding the Decline in Drinking and Driving During “The Other Great Moderation”0
Does judicial foreclosure procedure help delinquent subprime mortgage borrowers?0
Perception Pending: What Do Patents Signal to Consumers?0
Effect of financial incentives onhospital‐cardiologistintegration and cardiac test location0
Does Group Familiarity Improve Deliberations in Judicial Teams? Evidence from the German Federal Court of Justice0
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment0
Biases in legal decision‐making: Comparing prosecutors, defense attorneys, law students, and laypersons0
Consent searches: Evaluating the usefulness of a common and highly discretionary police practice0
The impact of paid sick leave laws on consumer and business bankruptcies0
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The readability of contracts: Big data analysis0
Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools0
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Hallucination‐Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools0
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Consent searches and underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample0
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Intensified support for juvenile offenders on probation: Evidence from Germany0
The usage and utility of body‐worn camera footage in courts: A survey analysis of state prosecutors0
Property rights and market behavior in thelow‐incomehousing sector: Evidence from Chile0
Foreword to JELS special issue0
Measuring law's normative force0
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Leases as Forms0
Do Representative Payments Matter? An Empirical Study0
Strategic subdelegation0
Beyond republicans and the disapproval of regulations: A new empirical approach to the Congressional Review Act0
Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection0
Settlementality0
Powerful CEOs and Corporate Governance0
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Managerial litigation risk and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from universal demand laws0
Litigation with negative expected value suits: An experimental analysis0
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Introducing twin corpora of decisions for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)0
The market for general counsel0
Government Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From China0
Normative Ambiguity, Social Norms, and the Expressive Power of Law0
Do doctors prescribe antibiotics out of fear of malpractice?0
Does an initial public offering (IPO) issuer's Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee calculation method predict pricing revisions and IPO underpricing?0
Chapter 13 Outcomes0
An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes0
A statistical approach to law school citation rankings0
Lawyers' legal aid participation: A qualitative and quantitative analysis0
Paying for performance? Attorneys' fees in fraud class actions0
Gun Laws and Justifiable Homicides: Contrasting Impacts on Civilians and Police0
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Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions0
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The Effectiveness of Certificates of Relief: A Correspondence Audit of Hiring Outcomes0
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Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador0
The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway0
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