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Empirical Legal Studies

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  • ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 3

    Say on Pay Around the World

    Shareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate boards irrespective of their performance. Investors have traditionally been powerless to prevent these…

  • ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 6

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace

    In one of its most-watched recent cases, the United States Supreme Court struck down a class action alleging that Wal-Mart stores discriminated against female…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 5

    Negative Activism

    Shareholder activism has become one of the most important and widely studied topics in law and finance. To date, popular and academic accounts have…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 4

    How Do Judges Decide School Finance Cases?

    There is an old riddle that asks, what do constitutional school funding lawsuits and birds have in common? The answer: every state has its…

  • ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 1

    Sovereignty Mismatch and the New Administrative Law

    In the United States, making international policymaking work with domestic administrative law poses one of the thorniest of modern legal problems—the problem of sovereignty…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 3

    Privacy Law’s False Promise

    Privacy laws have never seemed stronger. New international, national, state, and local laws have been passed with the promise of greater protection for consumers.…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Democratizing Rule Development

    Agencies make many of their most important decisions in rulemaking well before the publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), when they set…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 4

    Police Misconduct as a Cause of Wrongful Convictions

    This study gathers data from two mass exonerations resulting from major police scandals, one involving the Rampart division of the L.A.P.D., and the other…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    Merger Class Actions in Delaware and the Symptoms of Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation

    Recent research on corporate litigation has focused on three trends: the growth in percentage of mergers that result in litigation, the migration of cases…

  • CommentaryVol. 98 · Iss. 1

    Acknowledgments as a Window Into Legal Academia

    Legal scholarship in the United States is an oddity—an institution built on student editorship, a lack of peer review, and a dramatically high proportion…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 1

    Proxy Signals: Capturing Private Information for Public Benefit

    This Article presents an original empirical methodology to identify which patent laws will best promote optimal incentives to innovate for society. Vociferous debates over…

  • ArticleVol. 89 · Iss. 6

    Linking the Questions: Judicial Supremacy As a Matter of Constitutional Interpretation

    This Article explains that what has been missing from the debate between advocates of popular constitutionalism and defenders of judicial supremacy is any account…