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Michael Heise
William G. McRoberts Professor in the Empirical Study of Law
Expertise:
Empirical Legal Studies, Torts and Product Liability, Insurance Law
Address
Cornell Law School
308 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
308 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Michael Heise's research focuses on bridging empirical methodologies and legal theory. He earned an A.B. from Stanford University, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1987.
Professor Heise served as Senior Legal Counsel to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education and later as Deputy Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education. He entered academia in 1994 as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Law, becoming Assistant Professor in 1995, and Associate Professor in 1999 before moving to Case Western Reserve University as Professor of Law. He joined the Cornell Law School faculty as Professor of Law in 2003.
The author or co-author of over one hundred scholarly articles, Professor Heise's research and teaching areas include torts, law and education policy, insurance, constitutional law, and empirical methods. Professor Heise has co-edited the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies since 2005 and is a Founding Director of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
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- A.B., Stanford University 1983
- J.D., University of Chicago 1987
- Ph.D., Northwestern University 1990
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- Heise, Michael and Jason P. Nance, “To Report or Not To Report: Data on School Law Enforcement, Student Discipline, Race, and the ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline'” (January 23, 2021)
- Heise, Michael and Jason P. Nance, “Defund the (School) Police”?: Bringing Data to Key School-to-Prison Pipeline Claims,” University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper (September 4, 2020)
- Heise, Michael, Martin T. Wells, and Dawn M. Chutkow,, “Does Docket Size Matter? Revisiting Empirical Accounts of the Supreme Court’s Incredibly Shrinking Docket,” Notre Dame Law Review 95, no. 4 (May 18, 2020)
- Samaha, Adam M., Michael Heise, and Gregory C. Sisk, “Inputs and Outputs on Appeal: An Empirical Study of Briefs, Big Law, and Case Complexity,” NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-14, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-14
- Heise, Michael, “Per Pupil Spending and Poverty’s Persistent Penalty: An Empirical Analysis of 2016 District-Level NCES Data” (February 10, 2020)
View all publications on SSRN and SelectedWorks.
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- 6501 Insurance Law
- 6311 Education Law