This innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the
world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of
letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative
methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of
understanding law. That is, legal scholars have started to crunch
numbers, not letters, to tease out the effects of law on the
regulated industries, citizens, or judges in reality. In this
edited book, authors from leading institutions in the U.S., Europe,
and Asia investigate legal issues in South Africa, Argentina, the
U.S., Israel, Taiwan, and other countries. Using original data in a
variety of statistical tools (from the most basic chi-square
analysis to sophisticated two-stage least square regression
models), contributors to this book look into the judicial
behaviours in Taiwan and Israel, the determinants of constitutional
judicial systems in 100 countries, and the effect of appellate
court decisions on media competition. In addition, this book breaks
new ground in informing important policy debates. Specifically, how
long should we incarcerate criminals? Should the medical
malpractice liability system be reformed? Do police reduce crime?
Why is South Africa's democratic transition viable? With solid data
as evidence, this volume sheds new light on these issues from a
road more and more frequently taken-what is known as "empirical
legal studies/analysis." This book should be useful to students,
practitioners and professors of law, economics and public policy in
many countries who seek to understand their legal system from a
different, and arguably more scientific, perspective.
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