After establishing the importance of knowledge of settlement rates, this article first shows that
different research questions can yield different settlement rates. Using data gathered from …

Pity the civil jury, seen by some as the sickest organ of a sick system. Yet the jury has always
been controversial. 1 In America even before 1800, New York canal builders, perceiving …

This Article describes the origins of three movements in legal academia: empirical legal studies
(ELS), law and society, and law and economics. It then quantifies the distribution across …

This study uses a new criminal case data set to partially replicate Kalven and Zeisel's
classic study of judge‐jury agreement. The data show essentially the same rate of judge‐jury …

People conduct legal scholarship for many different reasons. This Article focuses on the
demand for and reaction to scholarship that helps inform litigants, policymakers, and society as …

The intuitions that junior high school students have on selected functional concepts were
investigated. The concepts were presented on an abstract and a concrete level, in arrow …

Empirical research comparing court case and arbitrated outcomes for employment disputes
was conducted. In cases not involving civil rights claims, it was found little evidence that …

Both biologically primary and biologically secondary forms of cognition can probably be
hierarchically organized into domains, abilities, and neurocognitive systems. Domains, such as …

Several studies hypothesize a relation between board size and financial performance.
Empirical tests of the relation exist in only a few studies of large US firms. We find a significant …

Concerns about juries dominate punitive damages reform debates. Some observers suggest
that allowing judges, not juries, to set punitive award levels will improve civil justice. a …