This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic programming model of the optimal educational financing decisions and post-graduation career choices of law school graduates. The main purpose of the paper is to measure the effect of short-term parental cash transfers, received during school, on...

This essay is an early reflection upon several intersecting narratives, ones that exist in several dimensions. In it, I situate several legal narrative flows that exist in a tectonic fashion, cruising by each other to contain the Earth’s magma core, but occasionally and spectacularly colliding...

Do judges make decisions that are truly impartial? A wide range of experimental and field studies reveal that several extra-legal factors influence judicial decision making. Demographic characteristics of judges and litigants affect judges’ decisions. Judges also rely heavily on intuitive...

At first glance, the legal profession appears to be thriving with diversity. Three women, including one Hispanic woman, and one African American man currently serve on the United States Supreme Court. The country’s first African American president recently left office, taking with him the...

A peremptory challenge procedure allows the parties to a jury trial to dismiss some prospective jurors without justification. Complex challenge procedures offer an unfair advantage to parties who are better able to strategize. I introduce a new measure of strategic complexity based on...

Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, defines mindfulness as paying attention in a curious, deliberate, kind, and non-judgmental way to life as it unfolds each moment. Psychologist Ellen Langer defines mindfulness to be a flexible state of mind actively engaging the...

Reality television shows have transformed the television industry. As this genre has expanded, legal disputes have risen and have become big business for lawyers. These disputes have produced case law that has challenged the entertainment industry. The article discusses the intellectual property...

When people are placed in a partisan role or otherwise have an objective they seek to accomplish, they are prone to pervasive cognitive and motivational biases. These judgmental distortions can affect what people believe and wish to find out, the predictions they make, the strategic decisions...

We examine the broad consequences of the right to counsel by exploiting a legal reform in Israel that extended the right to publicly provided legal counsel to suspects in arrest proceedings. Using the staggered regional rollout of the reform, we find that the reform reduced arrest duration and...

This working paper includes a collection of case notes written by those national judges who attended the European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers (ENTraNCE Judges2021). The training programme was organised by RSCAS between November 2020 and October 2021, with the...