Elliott Ash

Our previous post dealt with the outsize influence of well-funded conservatives at the interface between economics and law, and in particular over the judiciary. This influence is the product of many decades of institution-building, which includes the adoption of a particular (and in our opinion outdated) approach to economics in legal research and teaching. Addressing…

In our experience and in that of others, left and progressive legal scholars tend to view arguments rooted in economic reasoning with a deep skepticism. This suspicion is understandable, given that law and economics was birthed by the foundations and political entrepreneurs of economic conservatism. Our empirical work on economics training for federal judges, summarized…