Issue Information

• Date: 01 March 2019
• Published date: 01 March 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12191

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JOURNAL OF

EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES

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JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES • VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2019 • PP. 1-194

JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES

VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2019

Print ISSN 1740-1453; Online ISSN 1740-1461

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lawyers at the Peak of Their Careers: A 30-Year Longitudinal

Study of Job and Life Satisfaction

John Monahan and Jeffrey Swanson 4

Damage Caps and Defensive Medicine: Reexamination with

Patient-Level Data

Ali Moghtaderi, Steven Farmer, and Bernard Black 26

Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance

David A. Dana and Janice Nadler 69

Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States

Hazem Alshaikhmubarak, R. Richard Geddes, and Shoshana A. Grossbard 94

Morality, Compensation, and the Contractual Obligation

Sergio Mittlaender 119

Development of a General Legal Confidence Scale: A First

Implementation of the Rasch Measurement Model in Empirical

Legal Studies

P. Pleasence and N. J. Balmer 143

RESEARCH NOTES AND DATASETS

Accuracy and Fairness for Juvenile Justice Risk Assessments

Richard Berk 175

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