Setting aside the politics surrounding the global warming debate, Eugene Volokh's discussion (here) about discarded raw data takes up an issue important to every empiricist--data preservation.

For those inclined to plan ahead, the 5th annual CELS, hosted by Yale Law School, is set for November 5-6, 2010, in New Haven, CT. Also, well-earned kudos are due to the folks at USC Law for hosting last weekend's spectacularly successful 4th annual...

For those of you not attending CELS this weekend, you might want to check out the webcast!  Here's the email I recently received from the good folks at USC Law:Dear Empirical Legal Scholar, We are happy to announce that roughly half of the 2009...

A careful analysis of the recently released National Law Journal 250 reveals some surprising trends.  The NLJ reports that the nation's largest 250 firms (by lawyer headcount) shrank by 4%. Yet, when broken down by geography (see figure below, click...

The Wall Street Journal has an article on some research being done by Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn, wherein they use Markov chain models to attempt to predict how current day justices would vote on past landmark decisions.  To wit, they predict that...