Legal Data Lab

BR/MAG Judge Database

Biographical information on federal magistrate and bankruptcy judges. Updated continuously.

Corporate Prosecution Registry

Comprehensive and up-to-date information on federal organizational prosecutions in the United States. Now hosted by Duke University School of Law.

Hedge Fund Documents Database

This library collection contains hedge fund operating agreements and private placement memorandums.

Enforcement Actions Against Global Banks

Criminal enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against global banks during 2008-2016.

The Power Five: The Making of Newsworthy Deal Teams

This paper explores the organizational dynamics affecting women's opportunities and outcomes in law firms, analyzing over 10,000 deals and 50,000 attorneys from 2013 to 2023. By examining newsworthy deal teams—the power center of law firms—it sheds light on gender representation and leadership trends within the legal profession.

Of Court Ordered

A chapter in Reimagining School Integration: Possibilities for the Future.

A Hierarchical Dictionary Method for Analyzing Legal and Political Texts Via Nested n-Grams

The Federal Architecture of Income Inequality

The Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS)

Introducing a new measure of judicial ideology — and other traits — that will locate on a single scale nearly every Article III U.S. federal judge serving since 1990 (approximately 4,900 judges).

Israel Shows Diaspora Bonds Can Work as Advertised

Consequential Damages Clauses: Alien Vomit or Intelligent Design?

The paper examines whether consequential damages clauses in M&A contracts result from careful design or inherited boilerplate, finding that industry efforts around 2015 led to significant drafting improvement.

The SCOTUS Tournament: Winning Isn't Everything

By analyzing an extensive dataset of lawyer appearances and win rates in the SCOTUS bar, this paper challenges existing narratives about the rise of repeat players and their impact on case outcomes, contributing significantly to our understanding of elite legal representation at the highest level of the American judicial system.