Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship

Handouts

• Course Outline [PDF]
• Stata Commands [PDF]
• Statistics Vocabulary [PDF]
• Nominations Data Codebook [PDF]
• State Data Codebook [PDF]

Readings

• Sunstein, Schkade & Ellman, Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals 90 Va. L. Rev. 30 (2004). [PDF]
• Epstein & Martin. ``Coding Variables.'' In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (2004). [PDF]

Datasets

• Nominations Data [DTA]
• State Data [DTA]
• Sunstein Data [DTA]
• Sunstein Data for Assignment [DTA]
• Criminal Data [DTA]
• Bork Data [DTA]
• Civil Liberties Data [DTA]

Slides

• Day 1 Slides [PDF]
• Day 2 Slides [PDF]
• Day 3 Slides [PDF]