Search Results - "Journal of Legal Studies"

What Is Privacy Worth? by Acquisti, Alessandro, John, Leslie K., Loewenstein, George

“…Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a…”
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Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? by Abrams, David S., Bertrand, Marianne, Mullainathan, Sendhil

“…Are minorities treated differently by the legal system? Systematic racial differences in case characteristics, many unobservable, make this a difficult…”
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Image-Based Sexual Abuse by McGlynn, Clare, Rackley, Erika

“…Advances in technology have transformed and expanded the ways in which sexual violence can be perpetrated. One new manifestation of such violence is the…”
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If at First You Don’t Succeed: Suing Corporations for Climate Change by Ganguly, Geetanjali, Setzer, Joana, Heyvaert, Veerle

“…This article discusses the history and the future prospects of private climate litigation, which seeks to hold private entities legally accountable for climate…”
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Free at Last? Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing by Yang, Crystal S.

“…The federal sentencing guidelines were created to reduce unwarranted sentencing disparities among similar defendants. This paper explores the impact of…”
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Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard-Form Contracts by Bakos, Yannis, Marotta-Wurgler, Florencia, Trossen, David R.

“…A cornerstone of the law and economics approach to standard-form contracts is the informed-minority hypothesis: in competitive markets, a minority of…”
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Justice Is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges by Spamann, Holger, Klöhn, Lars

“…We experimentally investigate the determinants of judicial decisions in a setting resembling real-world judicial decision making. We gave US federal judges 55…”
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On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles by Shavell, Steven

“…This article proposes a scheme of liability that would desirably control accident risks in the coming world in which motor vehicles will be predominantly…”
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Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon by Moyer, Elisabeth J., Woolley, Mark D., Matteson, Nathan J., Glotter, Michael J., Weisbach, David A.

“…We reexamine estimates of the social cost of carbon (SCC) used by agencies as the price of carbon emissions in cost-benefit analysis, focusing on those by the…”
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Leniency and Damages: Where Is the Conflict? by Buccirossi, Paolo, Marvão, Catarina, Spagnolo, Giancarlo

“…Damage actions may reduce leniency programs’ attractiveness for cartel participants if their cooperation with the competition authority increases the chance…”
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The Heavy Costs of High Bail: Evidence from Judge Randomization by Gupta, Arpit, Hansman, Christopher, Frenchman, Ethan

“…In the United States, roughly 450,000 people are detained awaiting trial on any given day, typically because they have not posted bail. Using a large sample of…”
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Third-Party Moral Hazard and the Problem of Insurance Externalities by Parchomovsky, Gideon, Siegelman, Peter

“…Insurance can lead to loss or claim creation not only by insureds but also by uninsured third parties. These externalities—which we call third-party moral…”
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Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test by Ben-Shahar, Omri, Chilton, Adam

“…Simplification of disclosures is widely regarded as an important goal and is increasingly mandated in a variety of areas. In the area of data privacy,…”
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Why Countries Sign Bilateral Labor Agreements by Chilton, Adam S., Posner, Eric A.

“…Countries have entered into several hundred bilateral labor agreements (BLAs), which control the conditions under which source countries send migrant workers…”
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Is Privacy Policy Language Irrelevant to Consumers? by Strahilevitz, Lior Jacob, Kugler, Matthew B.

“…This article reports the results of two experiments in which large, census-weighted samples of Americans read short excerpts from Facebook’s, Yahoo’s, and…”
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Computational Complexity and Tort Deterrence by Teitelbaum, Joshua C.

“…Standard formulations of the economic model of tort deterrence constitute the injurer as the unboundedly rational bad man. Unbounded rationality implies that…”
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Hard Cases Make Bad Law? A Theoretical Investigation by Shahshahani, Sepehr

“…I use formal models to probe the aphorism “Hard cases make bad law.” The analysis illuminates important features of the common-law process, especially the…”
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The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods by Linos, Katerina, Twist, Kimberly

“…Can Supreme Court rulings change Americans’ policy views? Prior experimental and observational studies come to conflicting conclusions because of…”
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Ambiguity in Privacy Policies and the Impact of Regulation by Reidenberg, Joel R., Bhatia, Jaspreet, Breaux, Travis D., Norton, Thomas B.

“…Website privacy policies often contain ambiguous language that undermines the purpose and value of privacy notices for site users. This paper compares the…”
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Is Police Behavior Getting Worse? Data Selection and the Measurement of Policing Harms by Ouss, Aurélie, Rappaport, John

“…Public concern about harmful policing is surging. Governments are paying historic amounts for law enforcement liability. Has police behavior changed? Or is…”
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