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Empirical Legal Studies
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ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 1
Litigating Authority for the FDA
Abstract The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), like most federal agencies, is a captive client. Its “lawyer,” the Department of Justice (DOJ), ultimately decides…
C. Joseph Ross Daval -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 6
Nonmarital Fathers in Family Court: Judges’ And Lawyers’ Perspectives
This Article presents findings revealing judges and government attorneys’ perspectives regarding nonmarital fathers as parents. The findings are drawn from original empirical data generated in a rigorous…
Tonya L. Brito -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 5
Regional Immigration Enforcement
Regional disparities in immigration enforcement have existed for decades, yet they remain largely overlooked in immigration law scholarship. This Article theorizes that bottom-up pressure…
Fatma Marouf -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 5
What Litigators Can Teach the Patent Office About Pharmaceutical Patents
Pharmaceutical patents listed in the FDA’s “Orange Book” are some of the most valuable patents in the world. Accordingly, for this valuable subset of…
S. Sean Tu & Mark A. Lemley -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 1
Crime and the Mythology of Police
ABSTRACT The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to address the frayed relationship between police and…
Shima Baradaran Baughman -
CommentaryVol. 87 · Iss. 3
Closing the Legislative Experience Gap: How a Legislative Law Clerk Program Will Benefit the Legal Profession and Congress
In this gloomy hiring season there is at least one increasingly bright spark, one that may light the way to a new kind of…
Dakota S. Rudesill -
ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 2
Shades of the American Dream
Federal tax policies such as the mortgage interest deduction do not generally encourage anyone to become a homeowner, yet they do increase the cost…
Dorothy A. Brown -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 6
Judicial Recruitment and Promotion: Responses to Professors Ramseyer and Repeta
In this Article, the author comments on the issues addressed by law professors J. Mark Ramseyer and Lawrence Repeta about the appointment of judges…
Shin-ichi Nishikawa -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 6
Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies?: Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments
The Article presents a study which explores the impact of educational backgrounds on the appointment of judges in the Japanese Supreme Court. According to…
J. Mark Ramseyer -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 6
Why Has Judicial Review Failed in Japan?
The Article examines the political and institutional explanations for the failure of judicial review in Japan. It outlines the law reforms on the judicial…
David S. Law -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 4
Rationalizing Costs in Investment Treaty Arbitration
International investment and related disputes are on the rise. With national courts generally unavailable and difficulties resolving disputes through diplomacy, investment treaties give investors…
Susan D. Franck -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Prisoners and Pleading
Last year, prisoners filed nearly 27,000 civil rights actions in federal court. More than 92 percent of those actions were filed pro se. Pro…
Richard H. Frankel & Alistair E. Newbern