Empirical Analysis

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Article
76.3
Hiding in Plain Sight? Timing and Transparency in the Administrative State
Jacob E. Gersen
Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School; Samuel Williston Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Anne Joseph O’Connell
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Very useful comments were provided by Ken Bamberger, Eric Biber, Tino Cuéllar, Dan Farber, Jesse Shapiro, Matthew Stephenson, Adrian Vermeule, and John Yoo. Financial support has been provided by the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, the Boalt Hall Fund, UC Berkeley’s Committee on Research, and the Jerome Kutak Fund at The University of Chicago Law School. Thanks to Tess Hand-Bender, Roman Giverts, Monica Groat, Edna Lewis, Harry Moren, Stacey Nathan, and John Yow for research assistance. An earlier version of this Article was presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association and in the UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society’s Speaker Series.

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Response
77.4
Realism, Punishment, and Reform
Paul H. Robinson
Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Owen D. Jones
New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law and Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Director, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project
Robert Kurzban
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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Article
77.4
Some Realism about Punishment Naturalism
Donald Braman
Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Dan M. Kahan
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Yale Law School
David A. Hoffman
Associate Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

We thank Kenworthy Bilz, Bernard Harcourt, Owen Jones, Sarah Lawsky, Richard McAdams, Janice Nadler, Kitty Richards, Stephanie Stern, and Lior Strahilevitz for their comments and advice.

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Essay
79.1
Religion, Schools, and Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Perspective
Michael Heise
Professor, Cornell Law School
Gregory C. Sisk
Laghi Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law

We thank Dawn M. Chutkow as well as participants in the Understanding Education in the United States Symposium at the University of Chicago Law School for comments on an earlier draft. Professor Sisk offers thanks to his assistant, Bethany Fletcher, for recording data coding and to law students Eric Beecher and Alicia Long for assistance with opinion coding. A spreadsheet containing our data set, regression run results, coding of each decision, coding of each judge, and code books may be found at http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/gcsisk /religion.study.data/cover.html.