Among political scientists, not only is it uncontroversial to say that judges seek to etch their
political values into law; it would be near heresy to suggest otherwise. And yet this article …

A new judicial politics of legal doctrine has the potential to resolve foundational dilemmas
and reconcile long-standing and counterproductive scholarly divisions by bringing together …

I often say that when you can mea sure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know some thing about it; but when you cannot mea sure it, when you cannot …

Now in a readily available digital edition, and adding a substantive 2016 Foreword by Lee
Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new …

Although good information is critical to effective decisionmaking, public agents' private
incentives to invest in gathering information may not align with the social interest in their …

We formulate a new game-theoretic model of bargaining on the US Supreme Court. In the
model, a degree of monopoly power over policy endogenously accrues to the assigned …

Why do lower courts treat Supreme Court precedents favorably or unfavorably? To address
this question, we formulate a theoretical framework based on current principal‐agent models …

One way that principals can overcome the problem of informational asymmetries in
hierarchical organizations is to enable whistleblowing. We evaluate how whistleblowing …

The past decade has witnessed a worldwide explosion of work aimed at illuminating judicial-
behavior: the choices judges make and the consequences of their choices. We focus on …

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the US
courts of appeals had been composed almost entirely of white males. But by 2008, over a …