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Taking Judicial Content Seriously–Lupu & Fowler’s Strategic Content Model
In my conversations with judicial politics scholars, many lament how many of our existing approaches tend to ignore opinion content. For those interested in embedding opinion content into existing theories of judicial decision making … consider Yonatan Lupu & James Fowler’s paper … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, evolution of law, Judicial Decision Making, Public Law, supreme court
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Arlen Specter…. A Red in Blue Territory…Turns Blue… Click Below!
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The S.I.R. Model — A Simple Model With Applications to Swine Flu, etc.
Last week we offered a model of intellectual diffusion built upon a standard fare social epidemiology model. Given recent events within the United States, Mexico and potentially worldwide, we thought it would be worthwhile to highlight the classic S.I.R. (Susceptible, … Continue reading
The CLS Working Group on the SSRN!
Having finished a week discussing our paper Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, I wanted to take a moment to congratulate my colleagues on the SSRN download success of the paper! I hope lots … Continue reading
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — But Will it Come from HLS or YLS ? A Social Network Analysis of the Legal Academy (Part IV)
This is the final installment of posts related to Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate. Thanks for your emails. Here is the plot we provide within the paper. As a general proposition, we believe this … Continue reading
Model of Intellectual Diffusion Upon the American Legal Academy
For the third installment of posts related to Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, we offer a Netlogo simulation of intellectual diffusion on the network we previously visualized. As noted in prior posts, we are … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution of law, Law as a Complex System, law schools, social epidemiology, Sociology of Law
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A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate (Part II)
This is the second post related to our recently released paper Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate. We believe a hierarchical depiction of the network helps uncover latent distribution of authority present in the law professor … Continue reading
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A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate (Part I)
Last month, my colleagues and I posted Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate to the SSRN. We have been quite happy with the initial response to the article. It has been posted on a … Continue reading
SEAL 2009 @ Vanderbilt Law School
I am currently at Vanderbilt Law School for the 2009 Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL) Conference. For those of you not familiar with the organization … “SEAL is a scholarly association dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary exploration of … Continue reading
Tax Day! A First-Order History of the Supreme Court and Tax
Click to view the full image. In honor of Tax Day, we’ve produced a simple time series representation of the Supreme Court and tax. The above plot shows the how often the word “tax” occurs in the cases of the … Continue reading
OpenSecrets Open Data! – Visualizing the Publicly Traded Assets of Senators in 2007
OpenSecrets.org went open with their data today. In honor of this very significant act and its ramifications on future government transparency, I’ve decided to produce a quick visualization to answer a question I’ve long been intrigued by – the publicly … Continue reading
Visualizing 26 U.S.C ___ : At the “Section Depth”
Title 26 of the United States Code is likely on the mind of many as we move toward April 15th. As a part of a project with Lilian V. Faulhaber (Climenko Fellow from HLS), we have become interested in … Continue reading
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