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...

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...

This article presents the results of the first rigorous attempt to collect settlement rate data from a substantial number of countries. Data on settlement were collected for twenty-three of the twenty-five largest economies. Settlement rates vary greatly, from below 15% in France, Belgium, and...

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...

It is generally assumed that trade retaliation under the WTO performs some kind of `rebalancing` by allowing the injured Member to suspend `concessions and obligations` vis-agrave;-vis the violating Member of a level equivalent to the level of `nullification and impairment` suffered by the...

I review the empirical comparative law literature with an emphasis on quantitative work. After situating the field and surveying its main applications to date, I turn to methodological issues. I discuss at length the obstacles to causal inference from comparative data, and caution against...