An empirical analysis of life tenure: a response to professors Calabresi & Lindgren.(response to Steven G. Calabresi and James Lindgren, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. vol. 29, p. 769, 2006)

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INTRODUCTION 
 
 I. PINNING DOWN THE EMPIRICAL CLAIM 
II. LIFE TENURE BY THE NUMBERS 
    A. The Period-Selection Problem 
    B. The Date-of-Observation Problem 
    C. Regression Models for Length of Tenure 
       1. Calabresi and Lindgren's Reported 
          Cubic Model 
       2. Calabresi and Lindgren's Unreported 
          S-Curve Model 
       3. The Null Hypothesis 
       4. The Date-of-Observation Problem 
          Revisited 
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Opposition to life tenure has been steadily mounting in the legal academy, and Professors Steven Calabresi and ...

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