Which of the three legal doctrines of public use, just compensation, and due process is the most effective in constraining abuses of eminent domain power? This paper addresses this question for the first time and presents the first-ever systematic investigation of the judicial review of eminent...

The sentencing decisions of trial judges are constrained by statutory limits imposed by legislatures. At the same time, judges in many states face periodic review, often by the electorate. We develop a model in which the effects of these features of a judge's political landscape on judicial...

We model legal doctrine as an instrument of political control by higher courts over lower courts and the case outcomes they produce. We focus on the choice between determinate and indeterminate doctrines within a hierarchy of courts where political-ideological alignment between lower and higher...

The Behavioral Economics of Accuracy and Discrimination at Trial -- Truth Standards in Behavioral Law and Economics -- The Fundamental Attribution Error and Accuracy in Trial Settings: Judges vs Jurors -- Implicit Racial Biases in Tort Trials -- Gender and Race-Based Statistical Tables in...