Working Papers
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Sherri Lynn Johnson, and Valerie P. Hans) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN
Articles
"An Empirical Look at
Atkins v. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases" (with Sheri Lynn Johnson and Christopher Seeds) 76
Tennessee Law Review 625-639 (2009).
Back to a Future: Reversing Keith Simpson's Death Sentence and Making Peace with the Victim's Family Through Post-Conviction Investigation. (with Sheri Lynn Johnson) 77
UMKC Law Review 963-988 (2009).
"Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases," (with Sheri Lynn Johnson and Christopher Seeds) 18
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 689-733 (2009).
"Crime Labs and Prison Guards: a Comment on
Melendez-Diaz and its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings," (with Emily Paavola), 3
Charleston Law Review 205 (2009).
"The Dilemma of the Criminal Defendant with a Prior Record- Lessons from the Wrongfully Convicted," 5
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 477 (2008).
"Competent Capital Representation: the Necessity of Knowing What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation," (with Sheri Lynn Johnson and Scott Sundby), 36
Hofstra Law Review 1035 (2008).
Articles
"Inventing Tests, Destabilizing Systems" (With Stephen C. Yeazell) 95
Iowa Law Review__ (March 2010)
"Litigation Realities Redux," 84(5)
Notre Dame Law Review 1919-1974 (2009); also in
Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems (Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica; Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Kuo-Chang Huang, ed., 2008), pp35-104
"Standards of Proof Revisited," 33
Vermont Law Review 469 (2009).
"Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?" (with Stewart J. Schwab), 3
Harvard Law and Policy Review 103. (2009)
"CAFA Judicata: A Tale of Waste and Politics" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 156
University of Pennylvania Law Review 1553 (2008).
Book Reviews
Reviewing Johan Lindholm, "State Procedure and Union Rights: A Comparison of the European Union and the United States," 57
American Journal Comparative Law 258 (2009).
Articles
"Why is Torture 'Different' and How 'Different' Is It?," 30
Cardozo Law Review 1411 (2009).
Electronic Publications
"Cass Sunstein's Views About Organ Donation: When is a "Nudge" Illegitimate?" FindLaw.com (Sept 2009).
"What Vegans Can Learn from the Gay Rights Movement's Successes," FindLaw.com (Sept 2009).
"Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Juvenile Life Without Parole," FindLaw.com (Aug 2009).
"Lessons From an Animal Cruelty Case In the U.S. Supreme Court," FindLaw.com (Aug 2009).
"Child Obesity as Child Neglect: Is the Standard American Diet Dangerous?," FindLaw.com (July 2009).
"The Right of Confrontation: A Supreme Court Decision Reveals Strong Schisms," FindLaw.com (Jul 2009).
"The Highest Court of New York State Protects Privacy from GPS Monitoring," FindLaw.com (Jun 2009).
"Kansas v. Ventris: The Supreme Court Misconstrues the Right to Counsel," FindLaw.com (June 2009).
"Ten Angry Men?: Why The Supreme Court Should Take a Jury Unanimity Case," FindLaw.com (May 2009).
"Implications of the "Holier-than-Thou Effect" For Criminal Justice," FindLaw.com (May 2009).
"Avoiding Race Discrimination Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The U.S. Supreme Court Hears Argument in Ricci v. DeStefano," FindLaw.com (Apr 2009).
"Feminists For Life and the Hard Questions It Must Confront," FindLaw.com (Apr 2009).
"Why A Botched Abortion Case Should, and Does, Inspire Outrage: The Sycloria Williams Story," FindLaw.com (Apr 2009).
Articles
"The Aspirational Constitution," 77
George Washington Law Review 1631-1672 (2009).
"The Morality of Prophylactic Legislation (with Special Reference to Speed Limits, Assisted Suicide, Torture, and Detention Without Trial)," 61
Current Legal Problems 23 (Oxford U. Press 2008).
"Does
Heller Protect a Right to Carry Guns Outside the Home?," 59
Syracuse Law Review 225 (2008).
"Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law," 157
University of Pennsylvania Law Review 103 (2008).
"Abortion Rights," 23
Touro L. Rev. 815 (2008).
Electronic Publications
"Football and Federalism: A Case Centers on NFL Drug Testing," FindLaw.com (Sept, 2009)
"Was the Deal Capping Drug Cost Savings Inappropriate?" FindLaw.com (Sept, 2009).
"Did the Supreme Court Recognize an Innocent Person's Right Not to Be Executed?" FindLaw.com (Aug, 2009)
"Should the Supreme Court Alter Its Approach to Campaign Finance Regulation?," FindLaw.com (Aug 2009).
"Should Congress Change the Standard for Dismissing a Federal Lawsuit?," FindLaw.com (July 2009).
"Judge Sotomayor Proves Insufficiently Activist for Some Republican Senators," FindLaw.com (Jul 2009).
"The Supreme Court Decides the New Haven Firefighter Case," FindLaw.com (Jul 2009).
"The Obama Administration Defends the Defense of Marriage Act," FindLaw.com (Jun 2009).
"What is Sonia Sotomayor's Judicial Philosophy?," FindLaw.com (Jun 2009).
"The Supreme Court Dismisses a 9/11 Detainee's Civil Lawsuit," FindLaw.com (May 2009)
"The Supreme Court Upholds the FCC's Policy on 'Fleeting Expletives'," FindLaw.com (May 2009).
"Why President Obama Should Consider Pardoning those Who Designed, Authorized, and Carried Out the Bush Policy of Abusing Detainees," FindLaw.com (Apr 2009).
"Why the Supreme Court Decision Upholding Cost-Benefit Analysis Under the Clean Water Act Should Not be Used to Discredit Best-Practice Standards," FindLaw.com (Apr 2009).
Working Papers
"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Liability Survey: Inaccurate, Unfair, and Bad for Business," (Sept. 9, 2009), Available at SSRN.
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker" Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011, (Apr 20, 2009), Available at SSRN.
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Michael Heise, Nicole L. Walters and Martin T. Wells),
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011 (June 1, 2009) Available at SSRN.
"Punitive Damages in Securities Arbitration: An Empirical Study," (with Stephen J Choi) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1322482 (Jan 2, 2009)
"The Need for a National Civil Justice Survey of Incidence and Claiming Behavior, (Nov 12, 2008). Available at SSRN.com
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (With John H. Blume, Sherri Lynn Johnson, and Valerie P. Hans) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN.
Contributions to Books
| "Summary Judgment Rates Over Time, Across Case Categories, and Across Districts: An Empirical Study of Three Large Federal Districts" (with Charlotte Lanvers) in Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems (Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica; Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Kuo-Chang Huang, ed., 2008) pp1-34. |  |
| "The Relation Between Punitive and Compensatory Awards: Combining Extreme Data with the Mass of Awards" (with Valerie P. Hans and Martin T. Wells), in Civil Juries and Civil Justice (New York: Springer, 2008). |  |
Articles
"The Market for Contracts," (with G. Miller) 30
Cardozo Law Review 2073 (2009).
"Taking a Stand on Taking the Stand: The Effect of a Prior Criminal Record on the Decision to Testify and on Trial Outcomes" (with Valerie Hans), 94
Cornell Law Review 1353 (2009).
"A New Look at Judicial Impact: Attorneys' Fees in Securities Class Actions After
Goldberger v. Integrated Resources, Inc." (with M. Perino and G. Miller) 29
Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 5-35(2009).
"The Flight to New York: An Empirical Study of Choice of Law and Choice of Forum Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies' Contracts" (with Geoffrey P. Miller), 30
Cardozo Law Review 1475 (2009).
"Mandatory Arbitration for Customers but not for Peers: A Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Non-Consumer Contracts" (with G. Miller, and E. Sherwin), 92
Judicature 118 (2008).
"What is the Settlement Rate and Why Should We Care?," (with Charlotte Lanvers) 6
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 111 (2009).
"Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal" (with Michael Heise), 38
Journal of Legal Studies 121 (2009).
"CAFA Judicata: A Tale of Waste and Politics," (with Kevin M. Clermont) 156
University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1553 (2008).
"Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts," (with Geoffrey P. Miller and Emily Sherwin) 41
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 871 (2008).
"Statins and Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Moderate-Risk Females: A Statistical and Legal Analysis With Implications for FDA Preemption Claims," (with Martin T. Wells) 5
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 507 (2008).
"Implicit Racial Attitudes of Death Penalty Lawyers" (with Sheri Lynn Johnson), 53
DePaul Law Review 1539 (2004). Also published in
Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (G. Parks, S. Jones, W. Card eds. 2008).
Working Papers
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (With John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, and Sheri Lynn Johnson) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN
Contributions to Books
| "The Relation Between Punitive and Compensatory Awards: Combining Extreme Data with the Mass of Awards" (with Theodore Eisenberg and Martin T. Wells), in Civil Juries and Civil Justice: Psychological and Legal Perspectives (New York: Springer; Brian H. Bornstein, Richard L. Wiener, Robert Schopp & Steven Willborn eds., 2008). pp. 105-115. |  |
Articles
"Taking a Stand on Taking the Stand: The Effect of a Prior Criminal Record on the Decision to Testify and on Trial Outcomes" (with T. Eisenberg), 94
Cornell Law Review 1353 (2009).
"A Jury of One: Opinion Formation, Conformity, and Dissent on Juries." 6
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 513 (2009).
"Empowering the Active Jury: A Genuine Tort Reform", 13
Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 39 (2008)
"Science on Trial," 34
Cornell Law Forum 4-10 (Spring, 2008).
Working Papers
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker," (with Theodore Eisenberg, and Martin T. Wells) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011 (Apr 20, 2009). Available at SSRN.
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Nicole L. Walters and Martin T. Wells),
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011 (June 1, 2009) Available at SSRN.
Articles
"Plaintiphobia in State Court? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 38
Journal of Legal Studies 121 (2009).
"Judicial Decision-Making, Social Science Evidence, and Equal Educational Opportunity: Uneasy Relations and Uncertain Futures", 31
Seattle U. L. Rev. 863 (2008).
Working Papers
"Rethinking Consideration in the Electronic Age," (with Maureen O'Rourke) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-004 (Mar 3, 2009). Available at SSRN
Articles
"Maybe Dick Speidel Was Right about Court Adjustment," __San Diego Law Review__ (forthcoming, 2009).
"Warranties and Disclaimers in the Electronic Age," 11
Yale Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2008).
Working Papers
“A Fixer-Upper for Finance” (Mar 23, 2009). Available at SSRN
"Valuing the Waiver: The Real Beauty of Ex Ante Over Ex Post," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-033 (Dec 3, 2008), Available at SSRN.
"Pareto Versus Welfare," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-031 (Dec 1, 2008). Available at SSRN.
Social Choice and WelfareArticles
"Justice in Time," (forthcoming) 77
George Washington Law Review __ (2009).
"Taking Distribution Seriously," (forthcoming) 5
New York University Journal of Law and Liberty __ (2009).
"Bringing it All Back Home: How to Save Main Street, Ignore K Street, and Thereby Save Wall Street," 36
Fordham Urban Law Journal 427-445 (2009).
"Why Paretians Can't Prescribe: Preferences, Principles, and Imperatives in Law and Policy," 18
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 391 (2009).
"Human Persons, Human Rights, and the Distributive Structure of Global Justice," 40
Columbia Human Rights Law Review 343 (2009).
"Toward a Global Shareholder Society," 30
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 101 (2008).
"Insource the Shareholding of Outsourced Employees: A Global Stock Ownership Plan," 3
Virginia Law and Business Review 357 (2008).
"Reflective Intensions: Two Foundational Decision-Points in Mathematics, Law, and Economics," 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 1967 (2008).
Working Papers
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (With John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, and Valerie P. Hans) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN
Articles
"An Empirical Look at
Atkins v. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases" (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 76
Tennessee Law Review 627-639 (2009).
Back to a Future: Reversing Keith Simpson's Death Sentence and Making Peace with the Victim's Family Through Post-Conviction Investigation. (with John Blume) 77
UMKC Law Review 963-988 (2009).
"Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases," (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 18
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 689-733 (2009).
"Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, et al.), 84
Notre Dame Law Review 1195 (2009).
"Competent Capital Representation: the Necessity of Knowing What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation" (with John H Blume and Scott Sundby) 36
Hofstra L. Rev. 1035 (2008)
Working Papers
"Finding and Citing the 'Unimportant' Decisions of the
U.S. Courts of Appeals," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-015 (April 25, 2008). Available at SSRN.
Articles
"Online Access to Court Records - from Documents to Data, Particulars to Patterns," 53
Villanova Law Review 855-887 (2008).
Articles
"Summum and the Establishment Clause," 104
Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 95 (2009).
"Commerce in Religion" 84
Notre Dame Law Review 887 (2009).
"Like a Nation State" 55
UCLA Law Review 1621 (2008).
"Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution," 94
Cornell Law Review 73 (2008).
“Religious Expression in the Balance: A Response to Murad Hussain’s Defending the Faithful,”
117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 186 (2008).
Working Papers
"The Hidden 'Judiciary': An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice," (with Chris Guthrie, and Andrew Wistrich) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-010 (Apr 7, 2009). Available at SSRN.
Articles
"Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?" (with Sheri Lynn Johnson, et al.), 84
Notre Dame Law Review 1195 (2009).
"Heuristics, Biases, and Philosophy," 43
Tulsa Law Review 865-883 (2008).
Contributions to Books
Articles
"International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach" (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 103
American Society of International Law Proceedings__ (2009)
"Reforming Knowledge? A Socio-Legal Critique of the Legal Education Reforms in Japan" (with Takashi Uchida), 1
Drexel Law Review 3 (2009).
"The Anti-Network: Global Private Law, Legal Knowledge, and the Legitimacy of the State," 56
American Journal of Comparative Law 605 (2008).
Forward: in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 71 (3)
Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (Summer 2008).
"Cultural Conflicts," in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws 71(3)
Law & Contemporary Problems 273 (2008).
Contributions to Books
Articles
"Mandatory Arbitration for Customers but not for Peers: A Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Non-Consumer Contracts" (with G. Miller, and E. Sherwin), 92
Judicature 118 (2008).
"The Jurisprudence of Pleading: Rights, Rules, and
Conley v.
Gibson," 52
Howard Law Journal 73 (2008).
"Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts," (with Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller) 41
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 871 (2008).
"Unjust Enrichment and Creditors," 27
The Review of Litigation 141 (2008).
Working Papers
"Migration and Social Regionalism: Labour Migration as an Unintended Consequence of Globalization in Mexico, 1980-2000,"
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-013 (June 18, 2009), Available at SSRN.
"Unpopular Popular Constitutionalism,"
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-012 (June 18, 2009), Available at SSRN.
"Re-Reading Weber in Law and Development: A Critical Intellectual History of 'Good Governance' Reform,"
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-034 (Dec 9, 2008) Available at SSRN.
Contributions to Books
Working Papers
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, and Nicole L. Walters),
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011 (June 1, 2009) Available at SSRN.
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker," (with T. Eisenberg, M. Heise and M. Wells),
Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-011 (July 14, 2009) Available at SSRN.
Contributions to Books
| "The Relation Between Punitive and Compensatory Awards: Combining Extreme Data with the Mass of Awards" (with Theodore Eisenberg and Valerie P. Hans), in Civil Juries and Civil Justice (New York: Springer, 2008). |  |
Articles
"Statins and Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Moderate-Risk Females: A Statistical and Legal Analysis With Implications for FDA Preemption Claims," (with Theodore Eisenberg) 5
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 507 (2008).
Working Papers
"The Torture Memos and the Demands of Legality," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-019 (June 22, 2009), Available at SSRN.
"Jurisprudence and Judicial Ethics," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-009 (2008). Available at SSRN.
Articles
"If Lifelong Learning is the Solution, What is the Problem?"
Canadian Legal Education Annual Review (forthcoming 2009 or 2010).
"Executive Branch Lawyers in a Time of Terror," 31
Dalhousie Law Journal __ (forthcoming, 2009)
"Government Lawyers, Democracy, and the Rule of Law," 77
Fordham Law Review 1333 (2009).
"Lawyers as Quasi-Public Actors," 45
Alberta Law Review 83 (2008).
Book Reviews
"Legal Ethics as 'Political Moralism' or the Morality of Politics", 93
Cornell Law Review 1413 (2008), (reviewing David Luban,
Legal Ethics and Human Dignity).
Articles
"Reframing Financial Regulation," (forthcoming in 90
Boston University Law Review__ 2010).
"The Evolution of Debt: Covenants, the Credit Market, and Corporate Governance," 34
Journal of Corporation Law 641 (2009).
"Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Fincial Markets" (with Ronald Gilson), 108
Columbia Law Review 231 (2008).