Judges decide cases. Do they also try to influence which cases they decide? Clearly plaintiffs "shop" for the most attractive forum, but do judges try to attract cases by "selling" their courts? Some American judges actively try to enlarge their influence by making their courts attractive to...

In a pre-registered 2×2×2 factorial between-subject randomized lab experiment with 61 federal judges, we test if the law influences judicial decisions, if it does so more under a rule than under a standard, and how its influence compares to that of legally irrelevant sympathies. The judges...

Economists have documented pervasive correlations between legal origins, modern regulation, and economic outcomes around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly correlated with another set of potentially relevant background variables: the colonial policies of...