Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Law
The Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Where Might We Go From Here?, Kathryn Zeiler
The Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Where Might We Go From Here?, Kathryn Zeiler
Faculty Scholarship
The number of empirical legal studies published by academic journals is on the rise. Given theory’s dominance over the last few decades, this is a welcome development. This movement, however, has been plagued by a lack of rigor and a failure of editors to require disclosure of data and procedures that allow for easy replication of published results. Law journals, the editorial boards of which are manned solely by law students, might face the toughest hurdles in ensuring publication of only high quality empirical studies and in implementing and enforcing disclosure policies. While scholars in other fields including economics, psychology, …
An Empirical Analysis Of Empirical Legal Scholarship Production, 1990-2009, Michael R. Heise
An Empirical Analysis Of Empirical Legal Scholarship Production, 1990-2009, Michael R. Heise
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Inspired by the retirement of Professor Tom Ulen of the University of Illinois, the author considers the growth and development of empirical legal scholarship over two decades—a period of time that corresponds, not coincidentally, with Professor Ulen’s career. Starting in the 1990s when empirical scholarship had not yet “caught on,” the author first documents the increase in quantity of empirical scholarship over two decades. Next, the author applies a law and economics perspective to the recent surge in empirical scholarship, explaining that the trend has been fueled by an increase in the number of empirically trained scholars and also by …
Reflections On The Nature Of Legal Scholarship In The Post-Realist Era, Marin Roger Scordato
Reflections On The Nature Of Legal Scholarship In The Post-Realist Era, Marin Roger Scordato
Scholarly Articles
This article presents a tightly organized and closely reasoned analysis of legal scholarship in the current post-realist era. Secure and well-defined within the formalist legal world of the nineteenth century, the practice of legal scholarship has been profoundly affected by the realist revolution of the early twentieth century and the instrumentalist view of law that now prevails in the twenty-first century. In response, legal scholars have been forced to dramatically alter the focus, the materials and the basic methods of their study. The practice of legal scholarship is currently occupied in a prolonged struggle to adapt to these changes and …
An Empirical Study Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, Tracey E. George
An Empirical Study Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, Tracey E. George
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Empirical legal scholarship is arguably the most significant emerging intellectual movement. Empirical legal scholarship (ELS), as the term is generally used in law schools, refers to a specific type of empirical research: a model-based approach coupled with a quantitative method. This paper ranks law schools based on their place in the ELS movement and offers an essential ranking framework that can be adopted for other intellectual movements. A revised version of the paper was posted on October 11. The updated tables reflect additional data.