Remote adjudication in immigration

IV Eagly - Nw. UL Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
This Article reports the findings of the first empirical study of the use of televideo technology
to remotely adjudicate the immigration cases of litigants held in detention centers in the …

The problem of data bias in the pool of published US appellate court opinions

K Carlson, MA Livermore… - Journal of Empirical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, researchers have studied the relationship between the political leanings of
judges and the outcomes of appellate litigation in the United States. The primary source of …

An empirical study of political control over immigration adjudication

CY Kim, A Semet - Geo. LJ, 2019 - HeinOnline
An Empirical Study of Political Control over Immigration Adjudication Page 1 An Empirical
Study of Political Control over Immigration Adjudication CATHERINE Y. KIM* & AMY SEMET …

Interpreting circuit court voting patterns: A social interactions framework

JB Fischman - The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Many empirical studies have found that circuit judges' votes are significantly influenced by
their panel colleagues. Although this influence is typically measured in terms of colleagues' …

Stickiness and incomplete contracts

J Nyarko - U. Chi. L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
In the 1990s, Sprint PCS, one of the leading telecommunications companies in the United
States, created a wireless affiliate program. Under the affiliate program, Sprint and its …

A theory of rational jurisprudence

S Baker, C Mezzetti - Journal of Political Economy, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
We examine a dynamic model of up-or-down problem solving. A decision maker can either
spend resources investigating a new problem before deciding what to do or decide on the …

Reuniting Is and Ought in Empirical Legal Scholarship

JB Fischman - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
A century ago, Roscoe Pound set forth his agenda for a" sociological jurisprudence" 1 that
would study the" actual social effects of legal institutions and legal doctrines." 2 Pound …

Judges in the lab: No precedent effects, no common/civil law differences

H Spamann, L Klöhn, C Jamin, V Khanna… - Journal of Legal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In our lab, 299 real judges from seven major jurisdictions (Argentina, Brazil, China, France,
Germany, India, and USA) spend up to fifty-five minutes to judge an international criminal …

Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”

H Spamann - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Heyes and Saberian (2019b) estimate from 2000–2004 data that outdoor temperature
reduces US immigration judges' propensity to grant asylum. This estimate is the result of …

Examiner inconsistency: Evidence from refugee appeals

S Norris - University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Different judges, doctors, loan officers, and patent examiners make different decisions,
generating costly uncertainty over ultimate outcomes. In this paper, I use multiple-stage …