Duke Law School

Duke Law Journal

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Volume 58 April 2009 Number 7

Foreword

Measuring Judges and Justice

Jeffrey M. Chemerinsky
Jonathan L. Williams
1173

Introduction

“Only Connect”: Toward a Unified Measurement Project

David F. Levi
Mitu Gulati
1181

Articles

Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macrotheory of the Court

Thomas Brennan
Lee Epstein
Nancy Staudt
1191  

The Warp and Woof of Statutory Interpretation: Comparing Supreme Court Approaches in Tax Law and Workplace Law

James J. Brudney
Corey Ditslear
1231  

Judicial Evaluations and Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts and Their Judges

Stephen J. Choi
Mitu Gulati
Eric A. Posner
1313  

Judging the Judges

Frank B. Cross
Stefanie Lindquist
1383  

Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image

Tracey E. George
Chris Guthrie
1439  

The “Hidden Judiciary”: An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice

Chris Guthrie
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Andrew J. Wistrich
1477  

Are Empiricists Asking the Right Questions about Judicial Decisionmaking?

Jack Knight 1531  

Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993

J. Mark Ramseyer 1557  

Are Appointed Judges Strategic Too?

Joanna M. Shepherd 1589  

Responses

Justices as Economic Fixers: A Response to A Macrotheory of the Court

Scott Baker
Adam Feibelman
William P. Marshall
1627  

The Continuing Search for a Meaningful Model of Judicial Rankings and Why It (Unfortunately) Matters

Scott Baker
Adam Feibelman
William P. Marshall
1645  

Probing the Effects of Judicial Specialization

Lawrence Baum 1667  

A Response to Professors George and Guthrie, Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image

Michael Boudin 1685  

A Response to Professor Ramseyer, Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences

Michael Boudin 1687  

No Warrant for Radical Change: A Response to Professors George and Guthrie

Erwin Chemerinsky 1691  

Do Judges Think? Comments on Several Papers Presented at the Duke Law Journal’s Conference on Measuring Judges and Justice

Robert Henry 1703  

A Response to Professor Knight, Are Empiricists Asking the Right Questions about Judicial Decisionmaking?

H. Jefferson Powell 1725  

On Doctors and Judges

Barak Richman 1731  

Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?

Laura Denvir Stith 1743  

Does the Supreme Court Follow the Economic Returns? A Response to A Macrotheory of the Court

Ernest A. Young
Erin C. Blondel
1759  

The Court and the Code: A Response to The Warp and Woof of Statutory Interpretation

Lawrence Zelenak 1783  

Book Review

Autocrat of the Armchair

David F. Levi 1791  

Interview

A Conversation with Judge Richard A. Posner

  1807

Notes

Applying Lawrence: Teenagers and the Crime against Nature

Daniel Allender 1825  

A Picture Imperfect: The Rights of Art Consignor-Collectors When Their Art Dealer Files for Bankruptcy

Hilary Jay 1859