Law Review Publications:

Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure, 138 Harv. L. Rev. 1959 (2025) (with Miguel de Figueiredo and Brett Hashimoto).

Them’s Fightin’ Words — Maybe: Testing the Application and Boundaries of the “Fighting Words” Doctrine Using a Randomized Survey Experiment, 50 BYU L. Rev. 1667 (2025) (with Erin Cranor).

The Failure of Judicial Recusal and Disclosure Rules: Evidence from a Field Experiment, 117 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1277 (2023) (peer reviewed).

Pretrial Disparity and the Consequences of Money Bail, 81 Maryland L. Rev. 557 (2022) (with Miguel de Figueiredo).


Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Decriminalization and Death: An Empirical Retrospective on the Consequences of Oregon’s Measure 110, J. Crim. L. & Criminology (forthcoming 2026) (with Cree Jones, Jane Mitchell, and Dylan Thomas), draft available upon request.

Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Outperform Law Professors?, _ J. L. & Emp. Analysis _ (2026) (with Kevin Cope, Jens Frankenreiter, Scott Hirst, Eric Posner, and Daniel Schwarcz)

Performative Judging? Measuring the Effect of Video Recording on Judicial Behavior in Circuit Court Oral Arguments, _J. L. & Emp. Analysis_ (2026) (with Aaron Kaufman and Lucy Williams)

Retrospective Analysis of Legal Documents Using Hybrid AI – A Preliminary Empirical Study of Historical Search and Warrant Processing, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (2025) (with Ashiqur Rahman, Gokila Dorai, Thomas E. Kadri, John B. Meixner Jr., Miguel de Figueiredo, & Gagan Agrawal)

Campaign Donations, Judicial Recusal, and Disclosure: A Field Experiment, 83 J. Politics 4 (2021) (peer reviewed) (with Jonathon Krasno, Donald Green, Costas Panagopoulos, and Michael Schwam-Baird).

Randomness Pre-considered: Recognizing and Accounting for “De-Randomizing” Events When Utilizing Random Judicial Assignment, 17 J. Emp. Legal Stud. 342 (2020) (peer reviewed).

Trial by Skype: A Causality-Oriented Replication Exploring the Use of Remote Video Adjudication in Immigration Removal Proceedings, 59 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 82 (2019) (peer reviewed) (with Joshua Mitts).

Field Experimentation and the Study of Law and Policy, 10 Ann. Rev. L. Social Sci. 53 (2014) (peer reviewed) (with Donald Green).

Importing Trust: A Field Experiment on Social Capital Levels in North Korean Refugees, Available in the BYU Scholars Archive (2011) (not peer reviewed).


Other Scholarship:

Should Courts Allow Cameras and Live-streaming?, in Oxford Explains: U.S. Judicial Politics (Christy Boyd and Lee Epstein, eds.) (invited chapter) (forthcoming 2027).

Compliance Experiments in the Field: Features, Limitations, and Examples, in Cambridge Handbook of Compliance (Daniel Sokol and Benjamin Van Rooij, eds.) (invited chapter) (2021).