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Delaware’S Familiarity, Brian J. Broughman, Darian M. Ibrahim
Delaware’S Familiarity, Brian J. Broughman, Darian M. Ibrahim
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Up Close And Personal With Delaware, Darian M. Ibrahim, Brian J. Broughman
Up Close And Personal With Delaware, Darian M. Ibrahim, Brian J. Broughman
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Can The Dark Arts Of The Dismal Science Shed Light On The Empirical Reality Of Civil Procedure?, Jonah B. Gelbach
Can The Dark Arts Of The Dismal Science Shed Light On The Empirical Reality Of Civil Procedure?, Jonah B. Gelbach
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Litigation involves human beings, who are likely to be motivated to pursue their interests as they understand them. Empirical civil procedure researchers must take this fact seriously if we are to adequately characterize the effects of policy changes. To make this point concrete, I first step outside the realm of civil procedure and illustrate the importance of accounting for human agency in empirical research. I use the canonical problem of demand estimation in economics to show how what I call the “urn approach” to empirical work fails to uncover important empirical relationships by disregarding behavioral aspects of human action. I …