Empirical Legal Studies

Chicago Tribune on Law Firms and the Economy

Yesterday's Chicago Tribune covered "the end of a great run for the industry." The reporter interviewed our own Bill Henderson for the article.

Judge Harlington Wood, Jr. (1920-2008)

Judge Wood died on Monday at age 88. Today's Chicago Tribune includes an obituary for him.

His memoir, An Unmarked Trail, is available here.

Judicial Pay Debate Data

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy Eric Posner brings logitudinal data to the judicial pay debate. The data come from a paper on the same topic, Are Judges Overpaid?: A Skeptical Response to the Judicial Salary Debate, by Stephen Choi (NYU), Mitu Gulati (Duke), and Eric Posner (Chicago).