This article evaluates the substantive consequences of judicial diversity on the US Courts of
Appeals. Due to the small percentage of racial minorities on the federal bench, the key …

This paper develops and tests a model of self-interested judicial behavior to explore the
phenomenon of judicial dissents, and in particular what we call “dissent aversion,” which …

Since the 1990s, there has been an explosion of empirical and theoretical work dedicated to
advancing strategic accounts of law and legal institutions. Reviewing this extensive literature …

Do hierarchical politics in the federal judiciary shape collegial politics on the US Courts of
Appeals and thus influence judicial voting and case outcomes? I develop a model in which …

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' …

Over the years, psychologists have devoted uncountable hours to learning how human
beings make judgments and decisions. As much progress as scholars have made in …

This chapter reviews the literature concerning several issues raised in the economic
analysis of appeal and of supreme courts. These issues overlap with those considered in …

The collective statistics of voting on judicial courts present hints about their inner workings.
Many approaches for studying these statistics, however, assume that judges' decisions are …

This article investigates two issues unexplored in studies of the relationship between panel
composition and voting on three-judge panels of the Courts of Appeals: how often will panel …

The history of Voting Rights Act litigation is usually told as a tale of formal jurisprudential
change. The history divides voting rights litigation into two periods separated by a sharp …