This article develops an empirical analysis of judicial behavior in the S panish S upreme C
ourt, a court of law dominated by career judiciary. We focus on administrative review. The …

Different theories have been developed, mainly in the context of the United States, to explain
judicial decision-making. In this respect, there is an important ongoing debate over whether …

Although often criticized by part of legal scholarship, the idea of judicial behavior being
influenced by judges' egoistic goals simply needs the appropriate institutional setting in …

Appellate adjudication frequently involves small group decision making. Role responsibility
theory and experimental evidence suggest that high status group members may …

This study documents gender disparities in litigation‐cost rulings in Israel. It expands on the
existing literature on judicial bias in at least two important ways: by controlling for the merits …

The key question in this article is to determine whether regulation and regulator information
can help to solve causal uncertainty problems in liability. A widely held view among Law and …

Reasons for the joint use of ex ante regulation and ex pos t liability to cope with
environmental accidents have been a longstanding issue in law and economics literature …

No theory of judicial behaviour ignores institutions, but, all too often, their role in structuring
judges' choices goes assumed rather than directly evaluated. For this reason alone, we …

The article uses the literature on empirical findings on panel effects and dissent aversion in
order to criticize Dworkin's conception of legal interpretation and to support Kelsen's theory …

The boundaries of citizenship are increasingly contested. The trend among scholars is to try
to expand the state's responsibilities and duties to include non-citizens in the relevant polity …