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Joining Forces: The Role of Collaboration in the Development of Legal Thought
(Journal of Legal Education, 2002)
For every reason to believe that collaboration has been influential...
there is a countervailing reason to believe that it has played a minor role
in the evolution of legal thought. It may be easy to bring to mind a ...
In Defense of Author Prominence: A Reply to Crespi and Korobkin
(Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
We set out to provide our ranking of specialized reviews for three
reasons. First, given the dearth of published information about the
specialized law review phenomenon, we sought to provide some basic
information about ...
Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
Sunstein 1s and 2s
(The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2008)
In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
"The Threes"
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
The Judges of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
(Judicature, 2014)
The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (or "MDL Panel") is one of a small number of special federal courts created pursuant to Article III by Congress and staffed by a Chief-Justice-appointed group ...
The Federal Court System
(Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2003)
We applaud Professor Merrill's bold and noteworthy effort to engage in a dialogue with political scientists who study the Supreme Court. He navigates a substantial body of social science scholarship largely ignored by legal ...
Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
Induced Litigation
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)
If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and unremitting problem of modem civil justice" that "has an irreparable effect on both plaintiffs ...
Judicial Entrepreneurs on the U.S. Courts of Appeals: A Citation Analysis of Judicial Influence
(2006)
Federal courts of appeals are constrained by the power and preferences of the Supreme Court. The principal-agent model reveals that circuit judges gain power largely by avoiding review. We consider, however, whether circuit ...