The graphic depiction of these law clerk moves is one of the more interesting aspects of the study. In one depiction, Supreme Court justices are, not surprisingly, clustered in the middle, but — more surprisingly — district court judges are "suffused throughout the network," not relegated to the periphery. This is one representation, Katz and […]
Brian Leiter has just posted rankings of the Top 10 law schools by percentage of transfer students. See . It is generating a lot of traffic, see, e.g, and , in part because Brian names names.
More transfers. Between 1997 and 2004, non-academic 1L attrition, which is the ABA-LSAC Official Guide category that would […]
But my favor reason might be in the below abstract from a top-ranked paper on SSRN: that Warren Buffett et al.’s 31 year track record is not consistent with Efficient Market Theory. See Gerald S. Martin (American/Texas A&M) & John Puthenpurackal (UNLV), Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway:
We […]
But my favor reason might be in the below abstract from a top-ranked paper on SSRN: that Warren Buffet et al.’s 31 year track record is not consistent with Efficient Market Theory. See Gerald S. Martin (American/Texas A&M) & John Puthenpurackal (UNLV), Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway:
We […]
Another recent BJS report, Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2004, analyzes data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the nation’s 75 largest counties during May 2004. Murder cases were tracked for up to 2 years and all other cases for 1 year to provide an overview of the processing of […]
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently released State Court Processing of Domestic Violence Cases, a report (along with links to underlying data) that examines the processing of domestic violence (DV) and non-domestic violence (non-DV) cases filed in May 2002 in 15 large urban counties. In particular, the study compares the domestic and non-domestic offenses […]
This paper, which just appeared in the SSRN Empirical & Experimental Journal, sheds some light on the cultural components of reasonableness in Supreme Court jurisprudence: Dan Kahan (Yale), Dave Hoffman (Temple), and Donald Braman (GWU Law), "Whose Eyes are You Going to Believe? An
Empirical (and Normative) Assessment of Scott v. Harris". Here is the abstract:
This […]
