Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Advanced Course

Handouts

• Course Outline [PDF]
• Search and Seizure Data Codebook [PDF]
• Logit Tables from The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited [PDF]
• War Data Codebook [PDF]
• Nominations Data Codebook [PDF]
• State Data Codebook [PDF]

Readings

• Segal, American Political Science Review, 1984. [PDF]
• Epstein, Martin, and Schneider, Vanderbilt University Law Review, 2006. [PDF]
• Epstein, Ho, King, and Segal, NYU Law Review, 2005. [PDF]

Supplemental Readings

• Greiner, "Causal Inference in Civil Rights Litigation", 2006. [PDF]
• Epstein, Martin, and Boyd, "On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part II", 2007. [PDF]

Datasets

• Search and Seizure Data (Cases) [DTA]
• Search and Seizure Data (Votes) [DTA]
• War Data [DTA]
• Nominations Data [DTA]
• State Data [DTA]
• Long's GSS Data on Working Mothers [DTA]
• Long's GSS Data on Occupational Attainment [DTA]
• Lalonde's Job Training Data [DTA]

Slides

• Day 1 Slides [PDF]
• Monte Carlo Method Quicktime Movie [MOV]
• Day 2 Slides [PDF]
• Day 3 Slides [PDF]