Issue Information

• Published date: 01 September 2020
• Date: 01 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12222

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JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES

VOLUME 17 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2020

Print ISSN 1740-1453; Online ISSN 1740-1461

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Working Hard or Making Work? Plaintiffs’ Attorney Fees in

Securities Fraud Class Actions

Stephen J. Choi, Jessica Erickson, and A. C. Pritchard 438

Mapping the Iceberg: The Impact of Data Sources on the Study of

District Courts

Christina L. Boyd, Pauline T. Kim, and Margo Schlanger 466

Economic Gender Equality and the Decline of Alimony in

Switzerland

Dorian Kessler 493

Inputs and Outputs on Appeal: An Empirical Study of Briefs, Big Law,

and Case Complexity

Adam M. Samaha, Michael Heise, and Gregory C. Sisk 519

Factoring the Role of Eyewitness Evidence in the Courtroom

Brandon L. Garrett, Alice Liu, Karen Kafadar, JoanneYaffe, and

Chad S. Dodson 556

Judicial Disparity, Deviation, and Departures from Sentencing

Guidelines: The Case of Hong Kong

Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng, Sayaka Ri, and Natasha Pushkarna 580

RESEARCH NOTES AND DATASETS

Patent Similarity Data and Innovation Metrics

Ryan Whalen, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor 615

JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES • VOLUME 17 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2020 • PP. 435-640

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