Workshop

Rational Models Seminars are a speaker series at the University of Chicago that engage scholars from the disciplines of economics, philosophy, law, sociology, psychology--anything connected with the insights and limits of applying theories of rational choice to social, economic, and political issues.

Reading:

Harry T. Edwards & Michael A. Livermore, Pitfalls of Empirical Studies that Attempt to Understand the Factors Affecting Appellate Decisionmaking, 58 Duke Law Journal 1895.

Reading:

• Barry Friedman, "The Wages of Stealth 'Overruling' (with Particular Attention to Miranda v. Arizona)"

Reading:

Ross M. Stolzenberg, and James Lindgren, "Retirement and Death-in-Office of U.S. Supreme Court Justices"

at the University of Chicago

Reading:

Readings

Stefanie Lindquist & Frank Cross, Measuring Judicial Activism (2009), Chs. 2-3 and 8

at the University of Chicago

Reading

Shelley Murphey, Going Procedural: A Study of Strategic Opinion Writing in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

at Northwestern Law (McCormick 375)