Research


Publications

Working papers

  • “Bye-bye, Bluebook? Automating Legal Procedure with Large Language Models.” We show that off-the-shelf LLMs produce fully compliant Bluebook citations only 69%-74% of the time, cautioning against using such models to automate aspects of the law where fidelity to procedure is paramount.
  • “Natural Language Evidence for the Existence and Effect of Jurisprudential Regimes.” (with Matthew E.K. Hall). Tracing the linguistic development of legal doctrine over time, we present new evidence for the way that law constrains the voting behavior of Supreme Court justices.
  • “Does Theory Matter? Testing the Influence of Constitutional Theory on Specific and Diffuse Support for the U.S. Supreme Court.” (with Matthew E.K. Hall). Invoking some of the leading scholars of normative constitutional theory (Dworkin, Posner, Barnett, etc.), we test their implicit empirical claims in a national survey experiment.

Other writing