Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy122
Does the 1L curriculum make a difference?21
The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time ofCOVID: An empirical perspective14
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations12
A Survey of Preferences for Estate Distribution at Death12
Sentence Variability in a Mathematical Sentencing Framework: A Statistical Analysis of Brazilian Court Data12
Bridging the Human– AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision‐Making11
Market versus policy responses to novel occupational risks11
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Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions9
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Patents and Supra‐Competitive Prices: Evidence From Consumer Products7
Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution7
Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes7
Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence6
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Stay at home if you can: COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home guidelines and local crime6
Constitutional accountability for police shootings6
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Private security and public police6
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Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation5
The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks5
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Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida5
Foreword JELS 22.4 (December 2025)5
Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value5
The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions4
Law, Justice and Reason‐Giving4
Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals4
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Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law3
No Adjudication3
The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments3
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Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel—Panel effects in the German Constitutional Court3
Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws3
One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials3
Assessing the Conservative Nature of the Supreme Court of Japan via Ideal Point Estimation of Justices3
Correction to “Paying for Performance? Attorneys' Fees in Fraud Class Actions”3
Foreword3
Centered Advantage: A Geographic Measure of Partisan Fairness in Redistricting3
The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment2
Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention2
Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine2
Measuring the Perceived (In)accessibility of Courts and Lawyers2
Building a better lawyer: Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency2
Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?2
Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia2
The effect of judges' gender on decisions regarding intimate‐partner violence2
“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court2
Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000–20202
JD‐Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students' success in law school2
Molecular Diagnostic Patenting After Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis2
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Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges2
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems2
Do data breach notification laws reduce medical identity theft? Evidence from consumer complaints data2
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Can Disclaimers of Affiliation Dispel Trademark Confusion? Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments1
Bargaining power in the market for intellectual property: Evidence from licensing contract terms1
Paying for performance? Attorneys' fees in fraud class actions1
Property rights and market behavior in thelow‐incomehousing sector: Evidence from Chile1
Sudden lockdown repeals, social mobility, and COVID‐19: Evidence from a judicial natural experiment1
The value of legal recourse in sovereign bond markets: Evidence from Argentina1
Litigation with negative expected value suits: An experimental analysis1
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The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds1
Do Representative Payments Matter? An Empirical Study1
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How Binding Is Administrative Guidance? An Empirical Study of Guidance, Rules, and the Courts Telling Them Apart1
The impact of legal representation in Israeli traffic courts: Addressing selection bias and generalizability problems1
Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador1
Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection1
Examining the effects of antidiscrimination laws on children in the foster care and adoption systems1
The limits of diplomacy by treaty: Evidence from China's bilateral investment treaty program1
Foreword1
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment1
The Distance Factor in Remedies1
Pay Secrecy Bans and the Sharing of Salary Information Among US Workers1
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