Noncompliance--a critical aspect of organizational life--fits into the core of many social
science disciplines. However, to date, the diverse knowledge on the subject has not been …

The dominant view among legal scholars is that ideology drives judicial decision-making. 1
Political scientists, too, have found evidence that ideology plays an important role in how …

Given its legal and cultural significance, Obergefell v. Hodges has to be one of the most
widely read and discussed Supreme Court decisions in recent memory.'Yet judging from the …

We use an original dataset of death penalty decisions on the Courts of Appeals to evaluate
how the institutions of multimember appellate courts, dissent, and discretionary higher-court …

Courts resolve individual disputes and create principles of law to justify their decisions and
guide the resolution of future cases. Those tasks present informational challenges that affect …

I argue the Supreme Court learns to craft legal rules by relying on the Courts of Appeals as
laboratories of law, observing their decisions and reviewing those that best inform legal …

We leverage the institutional features of American courts to evaluate the importance of
whistleblowers in hierarchical oversight. Drawing on a formal theory of signaling in the …

Ex post review is a common feature of policy-making institutions. We consider an
environment in which an expert agent makes a policy recommendation, which can then be …

The three-judge district court has had a long and strange career in the history of the federal
court system. Congress created the court in 1910 as a response to the canonical decision of …

Prominent explanations for appellate review prioritize the ideological alignment of the lower
and reviewing courts. We suggest that interpersonal relationships play an important role …