This comment points out four severe reservations regarding Cho et al.'s (PS 2017) finding that U.S. federal judges punish more harshly on “sleepy Mondays,” the Mondays after the start of Daylights Savings Time. First, Cho et al.'s finding pertains to only one of at least two dimensions of...

It is generally assumed that trade retaliation under the WTO performs some kind of `rebalancing` by allowing the injured Member to suspend `concessions and obligations` vis-agrave;-vis the violating Member of a level equivalent to the level of `nullification and impairment` suffered by the...

This paper empirically compares civil procedure in common law and civil law countries. Using World-Bank and hand-collected data, and unlike earlier studies that used predecessor data sets, this paper finds no systematic differences between common and civil law countries in the complexity,...