Empirical law and economics

Research on criminal justice, courts, policing, and public policy.

David S. Abrams is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School. This version keeps the identity and visual presence of the original site while shifting the homepage and research page toward a clearer, research-first design.

Featured research

Recent and selected publications

The paper cards below use the three-tier structure you requested: a visible short summary, a click-to-open abstract panel, and direct links to the full paper where available.
Research page

Bigger article previews

Graphs are now large enough to read as part of each paper card rather than as small thumbnails. This preserves one of the most distinctive features of the current site.

Structure

Three tiers of information

Every entry is organized so readers can scan quickly, expand to read more, and then click through to the full paper only if they want to go deeper.

Maintenance

One data file to update

Future edits mostly happen in assets/publications.js. That file controls the title, summary, abstract, graph style, and links for each publication.