Publications

    • Tonja Jacobi, Patrick Leslie & Zoë Robinson, Institutional Design and the Predictability of Judicial Interruptions at Oral Argument, __ Journal of Law and Courts __ (forthcoming 2024)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Clare Gaynor Willis, Pyrrhic Victories: The Mirage of Winning at the Supreme Court, 109 Iowa Law Review __ (forthcoming 2024)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Riley Clafton, The Law of Disposable Children: Interrogations in Schools, 75 Alabama Law Review 291 (2023)(pdf)(link)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Eryn Mascia, Alternative Facts: An Empirical Study of Fact Manipulation in Criminal Procedure Cases, 73 Emory Law Journal 363 (2023)(link)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Introduction—the Fragile Legitimacy of the Supreme Court, 73 Emory Law Journal 281 (2023) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Zoë Robinson & Patrick Leslie, Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia, 70 American Journal of Comparative Law __ (forthcoming 2023) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Matthew Sag, Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice, 103 Boston University Law Review __ (forthcoming 2023)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Addie Maguire, Searches Without Suspicion: Avoiding a Four Million Person Underclass, 48 B.Y.U.­­­ Law Review 1769 (2023) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Role of Theory in Empirical Legal Studies 1 Comparative Constitutional Studies __ (forthcoming 2023) – methodologies symposium
    • Tonja Jacobi & Riley Clafton, The Law of Disposable Children: Discipline in Schools, 2023 University of Illinois­­ Law Review 1123 (2023) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Elliot Louthen, The Corrosive Effect of Inevitable Discovery on the Fourth Amendment, 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review __ (2022) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Dustin Stonecipher, A Solution for the Third-Party Doctrine in a Time of Data Sharing, Contract Tracing, and Mass Surveillance, 97 Notre Dame Law Review 823 (2022)(link)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Timothy Johnson, Eve Rinsgmuth & Matthew Sag, Oral Argument in the Time of COVID: The Chief Plays Calvinball, 30 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 523 (2021)(link)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Zoë Robinson & Patrick Leslie, Querying the Gender Dynamics of Interruptions at Australian Oral Argument, 4 University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum 1 (2020) (link)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Matthew Sag, Taking Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court,
      72 Vanderbilt Law Review 1423 (2019)(link)
    • Alvaro Bustos & Tonja Jacobi, Judicial Choice among Cases for Certiorari,
      27 Supreme Court Economic Review 117 (2019)(link)
      — The Public Choice Analysis of the Legal System special issue
    • Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag, The New Oral Argument: Justices as Advocates,
      94 Notre Dame Law Review 1161-1253 (2019) (link)         
    • Tonja Jacobi & Ross Berlin, Supreme Irrelevance: the Court’s Abdication in Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence
      51 UC Davis Law Review 2033 (2018)(link)              
    • Tonja Jacobi & Dylan Schweers, Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments
      103 Virginia Law Review 1379-1485 (2017)(pdf)                          
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Future of Terry in the Car Context
      15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 89-112 (2017)  (pdf)
      — Terry at 50 symposium
    • Tonja Jacobi, Sonia Mittal & Barry R. Weingast, Judicial Review and the Self-Stabilizing Constitution
      in Comparative Judicial Review (Erin F. Delaney and Rosalind Dixon, Eds.)(Edward Elgar Press) p185-203 (forthcoming 2018)(pdf)              
    • Jesse-Justin Cuevas & Tonja Jacobi, The Hidden Psychology of Constitutional Criminal Procedure
      Cardozo Law Review Vol. 37, p2161-2237 (2016)(pdf)              
    • Tonja Jacobi, Miranda 2.0
      UC Davis Law Review Vol. 50, p1-85 (2016)(pdf)  
    • Joshua Fischman & Tonja Jacobi, The Second Dimension of the Supreme Court
      William & Mary Law Review Vol. 57, p1671-1715 (2016)(pdf)
    • Álvaro E. Bustos & Tonja Jacobi, A Theory of Judicial Retirement
      American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 17, p529-565 (2015)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Sonia Mittal & Barry R. Weingast, Creating a Self-Stabilizing Constitution: The Role of the Takings Clause
      — with Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 110,  p601-638 (2015)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Eugene Kontorovich, Why Judges Always Vote
      International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 43, p190-199 (2015)(pdf)
    • Álvaro E. Bustos & Tonja Jacobi, Communicating Judicial Retirement
      International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 43, p107-118 (2015)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Jonah Kind, Criminal Innovation and the Warrant Requirement: Reconsidering the Rights-Police Efficiency Trade-off 
      William & Mary Law Review Vol. 56, p759-832 (2015)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Song Richardson & Gregory Barr, The Attrition of Rights under Parole
      Southern California Law Review Vol. 87, p887-976 (2014)(pdf)
    • Álvaro E. Bustos & Tonja Jacobi, Strategic Judicial Preference Revelation
      Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 57, p113-137 (2014)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Obamacare as a Window on Judicial Strategy
      Tennessee Law Review Vol. 80, p763-845 (2014)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, A Strategy of Increasing Judicial Power in NFIB v. Sebelius
      in The Affordable Care Act: Philosophical and Legal Implications
      (Fritz Allhoff & Mark Hall Eds.) (Routledge) p89-102 (2013)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Jeff Vandam, The Filibuster and Reconciliation: The Future of Majoritarian Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
      UC Davis Law Review Vol. 47, p261-342 (2013)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Exclusionary Rule: Its Effect on Innocence and Guilt
      in The Constitution and Criminal Justice: A Progressive Agenda
      (John T. Parry and L. Song Richardson, Eds.) (Cambridge) p75-92 (2013)
      (pdf of proof)
    • David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi & Matthew Sag, League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking – The Role of Antitrust Revisited
      Florida Law Review Vol. 65, p1 (2013)(pdf)
    • Frank Cross, Tonja Jacobi & Emerson H. Tiller, A Positive Political Theory of Rules and Standards
      University of Illinois Law Review Vol. 2012, p1-41 (2012)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Law and Economics of the Exclusionary Rule
      Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 87 p585 (2011)(pdf)
    • Lee Epstein & Tonja Jacobi, The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Decisions
      Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 341-358 (2010)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Role of Politics and Economics in Explaining Variation in Litigation Rates in the U.S. States
      Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 38, p205 (2009)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Judiciary
      in The Elgar Handbook of Public Choice,
      (Dan Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell, Eds.) Elgar Press (2010) 234-260
    • Vanessa A. Baird & Tonja Jacobi, Judicial Agenda Setting Through Signaling and Strategic Litigant Responses
      Journal of Law and Policy Vol. 29, p215-239 (2009)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Matthew Sag, Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases
      The Georgetown Law Journal Vol. 98, p1-75 (2009)(pdf)
    • Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch, Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property: An Empirical Study
      California Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 801-856 (2009)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Competing Models of Judicial Coalition Formation and Case Outcome Determination
      Journal of Legal Analysis Vol. 1, p411-458 (2009)(pdf)
    • Vanessa A. Baird & Tonja Jacobi, How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court 
      Duke Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2, p183-238 (2009)(pdf)
    • Lee Epstein & Tonja Jacobi, Super Medians
      Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, p37-100 (2008)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Gwendolyn Carroll, Acknowledging Guilt: Forcing Self-Identification in Post-Conviction DNA Testing
      Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 1, p263-306 (2008)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi & Emerson Tiller, Legal Doctrine and Political Control  
      Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Vol. 23, p326-345 (2007)(pdf)
    • Rui JP de Figueiredo, Tonja Jacobi & Barry R. Weingast, The New Separation of Powers Approach to American Politics
      in Handbook of Political Economy (Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds.) (New York: Oxford University Press), p199-222 (2006)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Impact of Positive Political Theory on Old Questions of Constitutional Law and the Separation of Powers
      Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 100, p259-278 (2006)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Sharing the Love: The Political Power of Remedial Delay in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
      Law & Sexuality, Vol. 15, No. 1, p11-58 (2006)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Subtle Unraveling of Federalism: The Illogic of Using State Legislation as Evidence of an Evolving National Consensus
      North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 84, p1089-1158 (2006)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Judicial Signaling Game: How Judges Shape their Dockets
      Supreme Court Economic Review Vol. 16, p1-38 (2006)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, How Massachusetts Got Gay Marriage: The Intersection of Popular Opinion, Legislative Action and Judicial Power,
      Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues Vol. 15, p219-241 (2006)(pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, The Senatorial Courtesy Game: Explaining the Norm of Informal Vetoes in ‘Advice and Consent’ Nominations
      Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, p193-217 (2005)
      (pdf)
    • Tonja Jacobi, Same-Sex Marriage: Implications of Legislative Remand for the Judiciary’s Role,
      Vermont Law Review Vol. 26, p381-406 (2002)(pdf)