Under the federal judicial recusal rules, judges and justices who directly own stock in companies must recuse themselves in cases involving those companies. However, there has been little effort to measure the impact of these recusals on the pool of judges and justices that hear cases involving...

Introduction -- Tort Law and Autonomous Vehicles, in Theory and Practice -- Stakeholder Assessments of Models for Insuring Autonomous Vehicles -- International Models for Insuring Autonomous Vehicles -- Assessing the Impact That Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles Can Have on Auto Insurance...

This paper evaluates the impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on inter-judge sentencing disparity, which is defined as the differences in average nominal prison sentence lengths for comparable caseloads assigned to different judges. This disparity is measured as the dispersion of a random...

One in five indigent murder defendants in Philadelphia are randomly assigned representation by public defenders while the remainder receive court-appointed private attorneys. We exploit this random assignment to measure how defense counsel affect murder case outcomes. Compared to appointed...