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Empirical Legal Studies
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ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the…
Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, Karen Levy & Alice Marwick -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Time is Money: An Empirical Assessment of Non-Economic Damages Arguments
Non-economic damages (pain and suffering) are the most significant and variable components of liability. Our survey of fifty-one U.S. jurisdictions shows wide heterogeneity in…
John Campbell, Bernard Chao & Christopher Robertson -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Privacy Governance for Institutional Trust (Or Are Privacy Violations Akin to Insider Trading?)
Currently, we frame individuals online as in a series of exchanges with specific firms, and privacy, accordingly, is governed to ensure trust within those…
Kirsten Martin -
CommentaryVol. 96 · Iss. 3
Algorithmic Risk Assessments and the Double-Edged Sword of Youth
Risk assessment algorithms—statistical formulas that predict the likelihood a person will commit crime in the future—are used across the country to help make life-altering…
Megan T. Stevenson & Christopher Slobogin -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 3
Corporate Short-Termism and Intertemporal Choice
This paper presents an intertemporal model of short-termism. Critics have portrayed short-termism in broad brushstrokes as the bane of corporate governance. But short-termism does…
Robert J. Rhee -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 6
A Quantitative Analysis of Writing Style on the U.S. Supreme Court
This Article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of writing style for the entire corpus of US Supreme Court decisions. The basis for…
Keith Carlson, Michael A. Livermore & Daniel Rockmore -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 5
Pay It Forward? Law and the Problem of Restricted-Spending Philanthropy
American foundations and other philanthropic giving entities hold about $1 trillion in investment assets, and that figure continues to grow every year. Even as…
Brian Galle -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 4
Students, Police, and the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Since the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers and school officials continue to deliberate over new laws and policies…
Jason P. Nance -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Event Studies in Securities Litigation: Low Power, Confounding Effects, and Bias
An event study is a statistical method for determining whether some event—such as the announcement of earnings or the announcement of a proposed merger—is…
Alon Brav & J. B. Heaton -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Mandatory Disclosure and Individual Investors: Evidence From the Jobs Act
One prominent justification for the mandatory disclosure rules that define modern securities law is that these rules encourage individual investors to participate in stock…
Yu-Ting Forester Wong, Colleen Honigsberg & Robert J. Jackson Jr. -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 6
Appraisal Arbitrage and the Future of Public Company M&A
In this Article, we demonstrate that the stockholder’s appraisal remedy—long-dismissed in corporate law scholarship as useless or worse—is in the middle of a renaissance…
Charles R. Korsmo & Minor Myers -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 5
When Bank Examiners Get It Wrong: Financial Institution Appeals of Material Supervisory Determinations
Banks and credit unions sometimes complain that the examination process regulators use to police banking practices is oppressive. These financial institutions complain that regulators…
Julie Andersen Hill