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The Past, Present, And Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Judicial Decision Making And The New Empiricism, Michael Heise
The Past, Present, And Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Judicial Decision Making And The New Empiricism, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
Over the last century, empirical legal scholarship has joined the ranks of the mainstream within the legal academy. In this article, Professor Heise traces the history of legal empiricism and discusses its growing role within the legal academy. First, the article traces legal empiricism through the twentieth century from the legal empiricism movement of the early twentieth century, to post-World War II efforts to revive legal empiricism, including the Chicago Jury Project and large-scale foundational support for empirical legal research, through current support for legal empirical research from both the law schools and other research centers. The article then discusses …
Judges And Ideology: Public And Academic Debates About Statistical Measures, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise
Judges And Ideology: Public And Academic Debates About Statistical Measures, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
Scholars who use empirical methods to study the behavior of judges long have labored in relative obscurity, unknown outside of academic circles (and indeed they only recently have emerged into the mainstream of the legal academy). However, the seclusion of the ivory tower has been breached as public attention has become increasingly focused upon studies that suggest the influence of ideological or partisan variables upon the outcomes of court cases. Over the last few years, the statistical work of scholars on judicial decisionmaking has provoked controversy in the wider legal community and has been enlisted by one side of the …
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
Michael Heise
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 …
The Future Of Civil Justice Reform And Empirical Legal Scholarship: A Reply, Michael Heise
The Future Of Civil Justice Reform And Empirical Legal Scholarship: A Reply, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
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