Investigating the Politics of Legal Empirics: Possible Next Steps

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Article

Publication Date

3-2018

ISSN

0932-4569

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck

Language

en-US

Abstract

Empirical investigation is necessary to build confidence in social science theories related to law. As Jeffrey Rachlinski (Rachlinski, 2018) points out, during the last couple of decades legal scholars have greatly increased their production of empirical legal studies. Data are more readily available and cheaper to gather. Empiricists continue to refine and improve the methods. Editors of both law reviews and peer-reviewed journals seem eager to publish empirical legal studies. Some blogs ,journals, and professional societies focus solely on such studies. It is a good time to be a legal empiricist.

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