All Stories

  1. Calavita's Invitation to Law & Society: Introduction to the Symposium
  2. The Significance of Statistical Significance:
  3. Empirical Research for Public Policy: With Examples from Family Law
  4. The Economic Analysis of Evidence Law: Common Sense on Stilts
  5. Activist Scholarship
  6. An Affirmative Action. Success Story
  7. A Reply to Questions about the Findings Reported in The River Runs Through Law School
  8. Narrative Relevance, Imagined Juries, and a Supreme Court Inspired Agenda for Jury Research
  9. The honest scientist's guide to DNA evidence
  10. The Effects of Cultural Differences on Adjudicative Outcomes in an Informal Adjudicative Setting
  11. The Value of Counsel: 20 Years of Representation before a Public Housing Eviction Board
  12. A Jury for Japan?
  13. Docket Data and "Local Knowledge": Studying the Court and Society Link over Time
  14. The Dynamics of Informal Procedure: The Case of a Public Housing Eviction Board
  15. Lawyers and Informal Justice: The Case of a Public Housing Eviction Board
  16. The Autonomy of Law: Two Visions Compared
  17. Statistics in the Courtroom: Building on Rubinfeld
  18. The Force of Irony: On the Morality of Affirmative Action and United Steelworkers v. Weber
  19. Social Science in the Courtroom: Statistical Techniques and Research Methods for Winning Class-Action Suits.
  20. Desert and Deterrence: An Assessment of the Moral Bases of the Case for Capital Punishment
  21. Organizing for Deterrence: Lessons from a Study of Child Support
  22. Grievances and Legitimacy: The Beginnings and End of Dispute Settlement
  23. More Tales of Two Courts: Exploring Changes in the "Dispute Settlement Function" of Trial Courts
  24. Modeling Relevance
  25. Questions for Research
  26. Transcript of Conference Proceedings
  27. Mobilizing Private Law: An Introductory Essay
  28. Law in a Changing America.
  29. Evictions from Public Housing: Effects of Independent Review
  30. Strategies of Research Design in the Legal Impact Study: The Control of Plausible Rival Hypotheses
  31. Toward a Theory of Decriminalization
  32. Low Probability/High Consequence Events: Dilemmas of Damage Compensation
  33. Growing Up in Law & Society: The Pulls of Policy and Methods
  34. Following the Man on the Clapham Omnibus: Social Science Evidence in Malpractice Litigation
  35. Affirmative Action in the United States: A Brief Summary of the Law and Social Science
  36. Why do jury research?