Faculty Publications
SSRN Working Paper Series
Northwestern Pritzker Law Faculty Publications
Recent Publications
May 2025
Periodical Articles
Zachary D. Clopton, Foreign Law on the Ground, 52 Yale Journal of International Law 50 (2025).
Shari Seidman Diamond & Richard O. Lempert, How Experts View the Legal System’s Use of Scientific Evidence, 26 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 51 (2025).
Stella Burch Elias & Paul Gowder, Against Attorney General Self-Referral in Immigration Law, 109 Minnesota Law Review 2331 (2025).
Luca Enriques, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee & Alessandro Romano, The Placebo Effect of Insider Dealing Regulation, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies gqaf019 (2025).
Andrew Koppelman, Burning Questions: A Response to Fishkin, Long, Lu, Mack, and Vallier, 26 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 521 (2025).
Bruce A. Markell, Not Wrong, but Not Quite Right: A Reply to David Epstein, 119 Northwestern University Law Review Online 315 (2025).
Bruce A. Markell, Is the Tide Turning?: Recent Cases from the Fifth Circuit, Bankruptcy Law Letter (May 2025).
Kathleen Dillon Narko, Everyone Has a Story: Using Storytelling to Engage Your Reader, CBA Record, May/June 2025, at 42.
Cliff Zimmerman, The Hidden Curriculum and the Discounting of Students’ Identity: The Sources of Disaffection and the Challenge in Formation of Professional Identity, 2 Journal of Law Teaching & Learning 15 (2025).
Accepted Articles
David S. Abrams & Priyanka Goonetilleke, Assembly-Line Public Defense, 100 New York University Law Review ___ , Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-05, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-22, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-10 (forthcoming 2025).
Jordan Birnholtz & Matthew B. Kugler, True Threats, Public Safety, and Free Speech: An Empirical Analysis of Counterman's Consequences, ___ Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology ___, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-28 (forthcoming 2025).
Heidi Kitrosser, In the Name of Accountability, 98 Southern California Law Review ___, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-24 (forthcoming 2025).
Dhimitri A. Nikolla, Mark S. Zocchi, Bernard S. Black, Jonathan J. Oskvarek, Laura G. Burke, Marika M. Kachman, Ali Moghtaderi, Nishad Rahman, John Bedolla, Jestin N. Carlson, Jesse M. Pines & US Acute Care Solutions Research Group, Differences in Productivity and Clinical Care Between Permanent Staff, Employed Travel, and Locum Tenens Emergency Physicians, ___ Annals of Emergency Medicine ___ (2025).
Contributions to Books
Janet Siegel Brown, Clerking to Advance Your Professional Growth, in An Associate’s First Year: A Guide to Thriving at a Law Firm (Jennifer L. Bluestein ed., 2d ed. 2025).
Helene S. Shapo, George Gleason Bogert, George Taylor Bogert & Amy Morris Hess, Bogert’s The Law of Trusts and Trustees §§ 141-230 (May 2025 Update).
Clare Gaynor Willis, How William R. Roalfe Hung Out the Latchstring for Law Librarians, in 2025 Green Bag Almanac & Reader 312.
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
Steven Calabresi, “President Biden’s and the Democrats’ Assault on the Supreme Court and the Rule of Law,” Volokh Conspiracy (May 8, 2025).
Steven Calabresi, “Some Reasons to be Skeptical of Nationwide Injunctions,” Volokh Conspiracy (May 15, 2025).
Steven Calabresi, “President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket,” Volokh Conspiracy (May 28, 2025).
Steven Calabresi, “Should the Seventh Amendment Civil Jury Trial Right Apply to the States?,” Volokh Conspiracy (June 9, 2025).
Zachary D. Clopton, Foreign Law on the Ground, Transnational Litigation Blog (June 10, 2025).
Peter DiCola & Jenny Toomey, “Peter DiCola and Jenny Toomey: What Chappell Roan’s Grammy Speech Could Mean for Musicians,” Chicago Tribune (May 5, 2025).
Luca Enriques, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee & Alessandro Romano, “The Placebo Effect of Insider Dealing Laws,” Oxford Business Law Blog (May 30, 2025).
Jill Horwitz, “Universities Hit by US Funding Drain Have Legal Means to Recover,” Bloomberg Law News (May 21, 2025).
Jordyn Jensen & Nev Jones, “Trump, RFK Jr. Are Pushing Psychiatric Confinement, not Mental Health Care,” The Hill (May 21, 2025).
Sarah Lawsky, “Reported Entry-Level Hiring by US News Rank - Top 25,” PrawfsBlawg (June 10, 2025).
Steven Lubet, “Supreme Failure: Trump’s Lawyers Will Flop in Arguments Against Birthright Citizenship,” The Hill (May 12, 2025).
Steven Lubet, “Immigration’s Twisted New Reality Is Beneath America,” The Hill (May 27, 2025).
Steven Lubet, “Why the Ten Commandments in Texas Classrooms Could Become a Dozen,” The Hill (June 9, 2025).
Bruce Markell & Nancy Rapoport, “Silvergate Part II,” Creditor Rights Coalition (May 17, 2025).
John O. McGinnis, “Consensus of the Conclave,” Law & Liberty (May 7, 2025).
John O. McGinnis, “The Righteous Bureaucrat?,” Law & Liberty (May 29, 2025).
John O. McGinnis, “Politics of the Cradle,” Law & Liberty (June 12, 2025).
Daniel B. Rodriguez, “ABA Accreditation Once More: Are They Making Me Eat My Words?,” Daniel B. Rodriguez Substack (May 14, 2025).
Daniel B. Rodriguez, “The Wars on Universities & Law Schools,” Daniel B. Rodriguez Substack (May 27, 2025).
Daniel B. Rodriguez, “ABA Law School Accreditation: Getting the Frame Right,” Daniel B. Rodriguez Substack (June 11, 2025).
Deborah Tuerkheimer, “Sean Combs’ Defense Leans on Familiar Tropes About Women. Will the Jury Believe His Accusers?,” Ms. Magazine (May 19, 2025).
Working Papers
Ronald J. Allen & Nicolas Elliott-Smith, Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doesn't Exist: Except as an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-30 (2025).
Bernard S. Black, Hemang Desai, Kate Litvak, Woongsun Yoo & Jeff Jiewei Yu, The Road to False Positives: Sample Selection and Specification Choice in Randomized and Natural Experiments, SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 25-2, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-07 (2025).
Samuel L. Bray & James E. Pfander, Remedies in the First Hundred Days of Trump II: A Gently Adversarial Collaboration, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-25 (2025).
Sadia Farzana, Andrew Owen, John Meurer, Ronald Ackermann & Bernard S. Black, The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Diagnosis, Care and Treatment for Diabetic Patients: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion in Wisconsin, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-06 (2025).
Heidi Kitrosser, Politics, Knowledge, and Government Speech, in Elgar Companion to Free Expression (Alan Chen & Ashutash Bhagwat eds.), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-31 (forthcoming 2025).
Ali Moghtaderi, Qian Luo, Ye Yuan, Vinay Kini, David Magid, Sadia Farzana & Bernard S. Black, Hospital-Cardiologist Integration: Effects on Patient Outcomes and Care Quality and Intensity, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-08 (2025).
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Michael W. McConnell & Andrew M. Koppelman, Religious Exemptions? What the Free Exercise Clause Means, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-29 (2025).
Andrew Owen, Sadia Farzana, Justin Blackburn, Ronald Ackermann & Bernard S. Black, The Impact of Health Insurance on Healthcare Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion in Indiana, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 25-09 (2025).