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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stay at home if you can: COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home guidelines and local crime24
Do People Like Mandatory Rules? The Choice Between Disclosures, Defaults, and Mandatory Rules in Supplier‐Customer Relationships15
Issue Information12
The effect of judges' gender on decisions regarding intimate‐partner violence10
Strategic subdelegation7
JD‐Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students' success in law school7
Does judicial foreclosure procedure help delinquent subprime mortgage borrowers?6
Issue Information6
The market for general counsel6
The Impact of Employers' Liability on 19th‐Century U.K. Coalmining Fatalities5
How accurate are rebuttable presumptions of pretrial dangerousness? A natural experiment from New Mexico4
“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court4
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The Federal Enforcement Threat: The Effect of Overfiling Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act4
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The Canada Trademarks Dataset4
Charging sex traffickers under federal law: What dispositions should we expect when applying theories on prosecutorial decision‐making?4
Ideological bias in constitutional judgments: Experimental analysis and potential solutions3
Death Penalty Statutes and Murder Rates: Evidence From Synthetic Controls3
Lawyers' legal aid participation: A qualitative and quantitative analysis3
The distribution of in‐person public K‐12 education in the time ofCOVID: An empirical perspective3
Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000–20203
Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value3
Effect of financial incentives onhospital‐cardiologistintegration and cardiac test location3
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Do doctors prescribe antibiotics out of fear of malpractice?2
Do data breach notification laws reduce medical identity theft? Evidence from consumer complaints data2
Is “Not Guilty” the Same as “Innocent”? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations2
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Does the 1L curriculum make a difference?2
Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy2
Automating Abercrombie: Machine‐learning trademark distinctiveness2
Prosecution or Persecution? Extraneous Events and Prosecutorial Decisions2
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Privacy decision‐making and the effects of privacy choice architecture: Experiments toward the design of behaviorally‐aware privacy regulation2
Building a better lawyer: Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency2
Powerful CEOs and Corporate Governance2
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The impact of legal representation in Israeli traffic courts: Addressing selection bias and generalizability problems1
Sudden lockdown repeals, social mobility, and COVID‐19: Evidence from a judicial natural experiment1
Appellate court assignments as a natural experiment: Gender panel effects in sex discrimination cases1
An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes1
Market versus policy responses to novel occupational risks1
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Issue Information1
The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Disclosure and Behavior: A Case Study of Korea and a Comparison of Research Designs1
The company they keep: When and why Chinese judges engage in collegiality1
Does an initial public offering (IPO) issuer's Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee calculation method predict pricing revisions and IPO underpricing?1
Intensified support for juvenile offenders on probation: Evidence from Germany1
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Gender gaps in legal education: The impact of class participation assessments1
Consent searches and underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample1
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A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices1
The value of legal recourse in sovereign bond markets: Evidence from Argentina1
Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel—Panel effects in the German Constitutional Court0
Market Response to Court Rejection of California's Board Diversity Laws0
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Life “With” Or “Without”? An Empirical Study of Homicide Sentencing0
The Dogma Within? Examining Religious Bias in Private Title VII Claims0
One judge to rule them all: Single‐member courts as an answer to delays in criminal trials0
U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977–2020: Introducing New Datasets0
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Revisiting the Business of State Supreme Courts in the 21st Century0
Measuring law's normative force0
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Killing as Capital: Perverse Effects of Truce Negotiations on Gang Violence in El Salvador0
Foreword0
The Effectiveness of Certificates of Relief: A Correspondence Audit of Hiring Outcomes0
Gender, race, and job satisfaction of law graduates: Intersectional evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates0
The role of character‐based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments0
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Foreword0
Do Firearm Markets Comply with Firearm Restrictions? How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Registered Firearm Sales0
Examining the effects of antidiscrimination laws on children in the foster care and adoption systems0
Leases as Forms0
Managerial litigation risk and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from universal demand laws0
The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway0
Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual‐Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws0
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Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law0
Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment0
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Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment0
The impact of paid sick leave laws on consumer and business bankruptcies0
A study of pandemic and stigma effects in removal proceedings0
Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention0
Affirming the District Judge: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of District Judges Sitting by Designation on Circuit Court Panels0
Asymmetric review of qualified immunity appeals0
Private security and public police0
Does the Bar Exam Protect the Public?0
Should patients use online reviews to pick their doctors and hospitals?0
Molecular Diagnostic Patenting After Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis0
Beyond republicans and the disapproval of regulations: A new empirical approach to the Congressional Review Act0
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Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools0
Bargaining power in the market for intellectual property: Evidence from licensing contract terms0
Network analysis of lawyer referral markets: Evidence from Indiana0
Paid medical malpractice claims: How strongly does the past predict the future?0
Who donates and how? New evidence on the tax incentives in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland0
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The limits of diplomacy by treaty: Evidence from China's bilateral investment treaty program0
Biases in legal decision‐making: Comparing prosecutors, defense attorneys, law students, and laypersons0
Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions0
Foreword to JELS special issue0
Secured credit and bankruptcy resolution0
A statistical approach to law school citation rankings0
Does greater police funding help catch more murderers?0
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The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment0
Consent searches: Evaluating the usefulness of a common and highly discretionary police practice0
Paying for performance? Attorneys' fees in fraud class actions0
Plea Bargaining Procedures Worldwide: Drivers of Introduction and Use0
Can you trust your lawyer's call? Legal advisers exhibit myside bias resistant to debiasing interventions0
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Settlement schemas: How laypeople understand civil settlement0
Quantifying disparate questioning of Black and White jurors in capital jury selection0
The usage and utility of body‐worn camera footage in courts: A survey analysis of state prosecutors0
Physician Licensing and Discipline: Lessons From Indiana0
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Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment0
Ideology, Disadvantage, and Federal District Court Inmate Civil Rights Filings: The Troubling Effects of Pro Se Status0
Judging fast or slow: The effects of reduced caseloads on gender‐ and ethnic‐based disparities in case outcomes0
Understanding the Decline in Drinking and Driving During “The Other Great Moderation”0
Property rights and market behavior in thelow‐incomehousing sector: Evidence from Chile0
Self‐nudging contracts and the positive effects of autonomy—Analyzing the prospect of behavioral self‐management0
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Litigation with negative expected value suits: An experimental analysis0
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Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?0
Framing negligence0
Assessing the Influence of Amici on Supreme Court Decision Making0
Emotional bargaining after litigation: An experimental study of the Coase theorem0
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Constitutional accountability for police shootings0
The influence of the race of defendant and the race of victim on capital charging and sentencing in California0
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Consumption Tax Reform and the Real Economy: Evidence From India's Adoption of a Value‐Added Tax0
Introducing twin corpora of decisions for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)0
The role of cable news hosts in public support for Supreme Court decisions0
The readability of contracts: Big data analysis0
Does Group Familiarity Improve Deliberations in Judicial Teams? Evidence from the German Federal Court of Justice0
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