About

Professor Kyle Rozema is interested in understanding all aspects of the legal profession and legal institutions. Much of his research focuses on studying how society should structure and regulate the legal profession, courts, and law schools. He also explores more descriptive aspects of the profession, including documenting diversity along several dimensions. A common thread of his research is collecting novel data and developing empirical methods to provide new facts and insights to help create a better legal system. His areas of expertise include law and economics, the legal profession, professional responsibility, quantitative methods, tax law, and torts.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Law and economics
• Economics
• Sociology
• Criminology
• Microeconomics
• Psychology
• Medicine
• Monetary economics

Selected publications

• Alternative Educational Pathways into the Legal Profession

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• Worker Behavior Under Optional Oversight: Theory and Evidence from Police Body-Worn Cameras

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• How Much Does the Bar Exam Decrease the Size of the American Legal Profession?

  American Law and Economics Review · 2025-01-27

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  Abstract I investigate how requiring lawyers to pass the bar exam affects the size of the American legal profession. Using data from 1984 to 2019, I find that the bar exam requirement decreases the size of the profession by 14%. The minimum passing score explains three-fourths of the impact, with the remainder largely explained by policies that delay the entry of law school graduates into the profession. The results suggest that eliminating the bar exam would meaningfully increase the size of the profession and that differences in state-specific policies play a substantial role in influencing the magnitude of the effect.

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• Who Enters the Pipeline to Partnership at Leading American Law Firms?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• The Evolution of Experiential Legal Education

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

  preprintOpen accessSenior author
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• Racial Diversity and Affirmative Action in American Law Schools

  The Journal of Law and Economics · 2025-11-01

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  We study racial diversity in American law schools and the impact of state-level affirmative action bans. Using novel data on enrollment in every law school since 1980, we find that minority shares of enrollment grew from 11 to 32 percent but still lagged behind minority shares of potential law school candidates, which grew from 16 to 43 percent. Exploiting 12 state-level affirmative action bans, we find that affirmative action bans decrease racial diversity by 17 percent and that all the decrease came from enrolling fewer Black and Hispanic students.

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• Ideological Concordance Between Students and Professors

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida

  Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2025-07-08 · 1 citations

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  ABSTRACT I study the effects of hiding lawyers' professional disciplinary records. To do so, I exploit the rollout of a 2007 policy that posts disciplinary records of Florida lawyers to their official online profiles but automatically removes them after 10 years. The policy only hides the online records of 65% of disciplined lawyers because the others have been disbarred before they qualify for removal. Lawyers who have their records hidden are 10 times more likely to offend after removal than lawyers with a clean record, but the removal itself has no causal effect on whether lawyers subsequently reoffend.

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• How Do Continuing Education Requirements Affect a Workforce? Evidence from the Legal Profession

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Probability

  2024-04-30

  book-chapterSenior author

  Abstract This chapter introduces an important prerequisite to understanding empirical methods: probability, which is a concept relevant in situations where there is uncertainty about whether an event will occur. It first covers how to calculate the probability of single and compound events occurring. It then goes on to describe Bayesian inference, which is a way of using available information to update our assessments of the likelihood that unobservable events have occurred. Finally, it describes the method of using computer simulations to estimate probabilities, which can be used to learn something about the world by repeating a process many times under a set of assumptions and a set of inputs.

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Frequent coauthors

• Adam Chilton

  70 shared

• Alex Rees-Jones

  University of Pennsylvania

  38 shared

• Maya Sen

  29 shared

• Adam Bonica

  27 shared

• Jonathan S. Masur

  12 shared

• Christopher Anthony Cotropia

  10 shared

• Jacob Goldin

  10 shared

• Max M. Schanzenbach

  6 shared

Labs

• Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Faculty & ResearchPI

Awards & honors

• Wachtell Lipton Fellow, 2017-2019