Ward Farnsworth, professor and Nancy Barton Scholar, Boston University School of Law

Dissents Against Type (forthcoming, Minn. L. Rev. symposium on Politics and the Judiciary)

The Use and Limits of Martin-Quinn Scores to Assess Supreme Court Justices, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1891 (2007)

The Role of Law in Close Cases: Some Evidence from the Federal Courts of Appeals, 86 B.U.L.Rev. 1083 (2006).

Signatures of Ideology: The Case of the Supreme Court's Criminal Docket, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 67 (2005).

The Regulation of Turnover on the Supreme Court, 2005 U. Ill. L. Rev. 407.

Sample chapter from TORTS: CASES AND QUESTIONS (Aspen 2004) (with Mark F. Grady).

The Legal Regulation of Self-Serving Bias, 37 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 567 (2003).

The Academy and the Profession, entry in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES (2003).

Realism, Pragmatism, and John Paul Stevens, chapter in REHNQUIST JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING THE COURT DYNAMIC (2003).

The Taste for Fairness, 102 Colum. L. Rev. (2002).

The Economics of Enmity, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 211 (2002).

‘To Do a Great Right, Do a Little Wrong’: A User’s Guide to Judicial Lawlessness, 86 Minn. L. Rev. 227 (2001).

Talking Out of School: Notes on the Transmission of Intellectual Capital from the Legal Academy to Public Tribunals, 81 B. U. L. Rev. 13 (2001).

Women Under Reconstruction: The Congressional Understanding, 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1229 (2000).

Do Parties to Nuisance Cases Bargain After Judgment? A Glimpse Inside the Cathedral, 66 U. Chi. L. Rev. 373 (1999).

 

 

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