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    • Guthrie, Chris; Grossman, Joanna L. (The American Journal of Legal History, 1999)
      The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (UCLA Law Review, 2013)
      Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention to every aspect of a case. Case outcomes might thus depend on which aspects of ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Orr, Dan (Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2005)
      In this article, we conduct a meta-analysis of studies of simulated negotiations to explore the impact of an initial "anchor," typically an opening demand or offer, on negotiation outcomes. We find that anchoring has a ...
    • Guthrie, Chris (University of Illinois Law Review, 1999)
      Legal scholars have developed two dominant theories of litigation behavior: the Economic Theory of Suit and Settlement,which is based on expected utility theory, and the Framing Theory of Litigation, which is based on ...
    • Guthrie, Chris (Oklahoma Law Review, 1994)
      This article examines small-town murder in Johnson County, Kansas, from 1880 to 1939. While providing lurid details of the murders committed over a sixty-year period in the county's small towns and villages, this article ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Cornell Law Review, 2007)
      How do judges judge? Do they apply law to facts in a mechanical and deliberative way, as the formalists suggest they do, or do they rely on hunches and gut feelings, as the realists maintain? Debate has raged for decades, ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Wistrich, Andrew J.; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2005)
      Due process requires courts to make decisions based on the evidence before them without regard to information outside of the record. Skepticism about the ability of jurors to ignore inadmissible information is widespread. ...
    • Guthrie, Chris (Southern California Law Review, 2008)
      In "Gonzales v. Carhart", the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. In so doing, the Court used the prospect of regret to justify limiting choice. Relying on empirical evidence documenting the four ways ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Cornell Law Review, 2013)
      Apologies usually help to repair social relationships and appease aggrieved parties. Previous research has demonstrated that in legal settings, apologies influence how litigants and juries evaluate both civil and criminal ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Daily, Melody Richardson; Riskin, Leonard L., 1942- (Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2004)
      Seven law school faculty members and one practicing attorney recently developed and taught a wholly new kind of law course based on an already published case study, Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Johnson, Sheri Lynn; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)
      Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E., 1967- (Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
      The sudden, rapid, and widespread increase in the number of specialized law reviews has attracted relatively little scholarly attention even though it is the most significant development in legal academic publishing in ...
    • Guthrie, Chris (University of Chicago Law Review, 2000)
      This Article uses an often-overlooked component of prospect theory to develop a positive theory of frivolous or low-probability litigation. The proposed Frivolous Framing Theory posits that the decision frame in frivolous ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E., 1967- (Florida State University Law Review, 2005)
      In contrast to the Supreme Court, which typically reverses the cases it hears, the United States Courts of Appeals almost always affirm the cases that they hear. We set out to explore this affirmance effect on the U.S. ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Friedman, Lawrence M., 1963-; Grossman, Joanna L. (The American Journal of Legal History, 1996)
      Guardianship goes back quite far in legal history; it has been a feature of American law since the colonial period. Something like guardianship is a necessity in a system that recognizes private ownership of property, while ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Korobkin, Russell (Marquette Law Review, 2004)
      In this essay, written for a symposium on The Emerging Interdisciplinary Cannon of Negotiation, we examine the role of heuristics in negotiation from two vantage points. First, we identify the way in which some common ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Duke Law Journal, 2009)
      Administrative law judges attract little scholarly attention, yet they decide a large fraction of all civil disputes. In this Article, we demonstrate that these executive branch judges, like their counterparts in the ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; Sally, David (Marquette Law Review, 2004)
      The theory of principled or problem-solving negotiation assumes that negotiators are able to identify their interests (or what they really want) in a negotiation. Recent research on effective forecasting calls this assumption ...
    • George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (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 ...
    • Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (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 ...