Litigation

Epstein, Landes, & Posner on Judicial Dissents
Lee Epstein, William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (Northwestern University - School of Law , University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School) have posted Why (and When) Judges Dissent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis on...

Empirical analysis of buyer power
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Walter Beckert (Birkbeck College, University of London - Econ) provides an Empirical analysis of buyer power. ABSTRACT: This paper provides a comprehensive econometric framework for the empirical analysis of buyer power...

A Quick-and-Dirty Empirical Defense of Prediction Markets:
From the comments, it seems that some readers would find empirical evidence more persuasive than theoretical arguments. Consider the figure below. It aggregates a total of 145,388 trades on Major League...

Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis
I recently presented my paper Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis, which is co-written with Ulf Axelson, Tim Jenkinson and Per Strömberg, at the Law, Economics and Organizations seminar, here at Harvard Law School...

What do consumers think about descriptive terms
Empirical work in trademark is sadly limited. Here?s a really provocative piece that uses consumer perception studies to argue that Abercrombie is just as bad at assessing the actual distinctiveness of word marks as Wal-Mart thought it was for trade dress...

Lee on Trademark Distinctiveness
Thomas R. Lee (Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School) has posted Abercrombie Unveiled: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Trademark Distinctiveness on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The word mark taxonomy established in Abercrombie is a longstanding...

Women and the Law
Women in the Justice System (judges, attorneys)

Pennsylvania Juvenille Detention
Judges Face Class Action