About the Program
Empirical assumptions are central to many legal debates and real-world issues brought before courts each year. The Center for Empirical Studies in Law fosters data-driven research that tests such assumptions and works to train the next generation of lawyers in empirical techniques that play an increasingly prominent role in litigation.
The center’s affiliated faculty — with doctorates in economics, finance, political science and psychology — demonstrate a broad array of expertise with empirical work in a variety of fields. Their research has made an impact on areas ranging from international comparative law to the use of social science in courts. The faculty also harnesses that research in their teaching, allowing students to understand the importance of data-driven analysis in their careers as lawyers, in policy, and in business and beyond.
There is concern that present-biased agents incur too much debt because of its deferred costs – concern that has influenced regulation of consumer...
Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...
False information causes harm, threatening individuals, groups, and society. Many people struggle to judge the veracity of the information around them...
This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...
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This article examines the impact of Greece retroactively, via legislation, changing the terms in hundreds of billions of euros worth of Greek...
Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...
Faculty Director(s)
Rich Hynes
John Allan Love Professor of Law