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Combating Contamination in Confession Cases
Laura H. Nirider
Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; Project Co-Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law
Joshua A. Tepfer
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Project Co-Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law
Steven A. Drizin
Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Legal Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions; Cofounder, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth; Associate Director, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law

The authors coteach a clinical course on wrongful convictions of youth and have worked together as cocounsel on numerous cases of false and contaminated confessions.

Criminal Law Empirical Analysis Evidence
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80.1
The Psychology of Contract Precautions
David A. Hoffman
James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

We thank Jane Baron, Craig Green, Zev Eigen, Yuval Feldman, Bob Hillman, Greg Mandel, Rafael Pardo, Alex Radus, Brishen Rogers, David Zaring, and participants at faculty colloquia at Vanderbilt Law School, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, William & Mary Law School, as well as at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies for comments on earlier drafts.

Behavioral Economics Contract Law Empirical Analysis Law and Economics
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80.1
Policing Immigration
Adam B. Cox
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Thomas J. Miles
Professor of Law and Walter Mander Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School

Thanks to Ahilan Arulanantham, Ingrid Eagly, Stephen Lee, Courtney Oliva, Margo Schlanger, F. Daniel Siciliano, David Sklansky, participants in The University of Chicago Immigration Law and Institutional Design Symposium, held at The University of Chicago Law School on June 15 and 16, 2012, and participants in workshops at the Law and Society Association, Northwestern University School of Law, and the 2012 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Many thanks also to Elizabeth Alcocer-Gonzalez, Yotam Barkai, Cynthia Benin, Christopher Heasley, Emily Heasley, Ronnie Hutchinson, Charity Lee, Zachary Mayo, Taylor Meehan, Emily Underwood, and Allison Wilkinson for outstanding research assistance. Adam Cox thanks The Filomen D’Agostino and Max E. Greenberg Research Fund for generous support. Thomas Miles thanks the SNR Denton Fund for generous support.

Empirical Analysis Immigration Institutional Design Law Enforcement/Policing
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81.3
Following Lower-Court Precedent
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl
Associate Professor, University of Houston Law Center.

For helpful comments, I thank Andrew Coan, Jim Hawkins, Toby Heytens, Randy Kozel, David Kwok, Anita Krishnakumar, Ethan Leib, Hillel Levin, Teddy Rave, Michael Solimine, audiences at South Texas College of Law and the University of Houston Law Center, and the editors of this journal. I thank David Klein and Stefanie Lindquist for sharing data that I used to perform some calculations in Part III.A. I thank Andrew Campbell and Kirsty Davis for research assistance.

Appellate Law Empirical Analysis Judicial Decision-Making
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84.4
The Myth of Fourth Amendment Circularity
Matthew B. Kugler
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

The authors thank Jane Bambauer, Tim Casey, Adam Chilton, Shari Seidman Diamond, Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Hemel, Bert Huang, Aziz Huq, Orin Kerr, Joshua Kleinfeld, Andy Koppelman, Genevieve Lakier, Katerina Linos, Jonathan Masur, Richard McAdams, Janice Nadler, Martha Nussbaum, Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Michael Pollack, Uriel Procaccia, John Rappaport, Richard Re, Victoria Schwartz, Christine Scott-Hayward, Nadav Shoked, Chris Slobogin, Deborah Tuerkheimer, Matt Tokson, and Laura Weinrib, as well as workshop participants at Northwestern University Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, the American Law and Economics Association conference, and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference for comments on earlier drafts, the Carl S. Lloyd Faculty Fund for research support, and Michelle Hayner for helpful research assistance.

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Sidley Austin Professor of Law, University of Chicago
It is very difficult to find any proposition in Fourth Amendment law to which every judge, lawyer, and scholar subscribes.
Empirical Analysis Fourth Amendment Privacy
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84.3
Dead Hand Proxy Puts and Shareholder Value
Sean J. Griffith
T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law and Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

We are grateful for comments we received at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, the Eleventh Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, and at presentations at Florida State University College of Law, Fordham Law School, Notre Dame Law School, St. John’s University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, USC Gould School of Law, and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP. Thanks also to Jennifer Arlen, Alon Brav, Jack Coffee, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Chris Foulds, Joe Grundfest, Victoria Ivashina, J. Travis Laster, Katie McCormick, Darius Palia, Frank Partnoy, Richard Squire, Leo Strine, and Eric Talley for comments and conversations on earlier drafts. The viewpoints and any errors herein are the authors’ alone.

Natalia Reisel
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University
Hedge fund activism is now a defining force in corporate governance.
Business Organizations Corporate Governance Empirical Analysis

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