Joshua Mitts

Joshua Mitts is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Empirical Law and Economics at the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. His research applies empirical methods to the study of contract and corporate law. Mitts has authored causal inference studies on the effect of legal interventions, applications of automated content analysis to legal research, and predictive analysis using large-scale textual data to guide regulatory policy. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in various journals including the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Harvard Business Law Review, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the peer-reviewed Journal of Financial Regulation and has been presented at the annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association and the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies.