Back in the 1940s the political scientist C. Herman Pritchett began tallying the votes and opinions of Supreme Court Justices. His goal was to use data to test the hypothesis that the …
PM Collins Jr - Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Judicial decisions play an important role in shaping public policy. Recognizing this, interest groups and other entities lobby judges in an attempt to translate their policy preferences into …
Deference Mistakes Page 1 Deference Mistakes Jonathan S. Masurt & Lisa Larrimore Ouellettett This Article begins with what should seem a relatively straightforward prop- osition …
The European Union is often depicted as a cradle of judicial activism and a polity built by courts. Tommaso Pavone shows how this judge-centric narrative conceals a crucial arena …
N Robinson - The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The US Supreme Court sits as a unified bench of nine justices. The Indian Supreme Court sits in panels, and can have up to thirtyone justices. This Article uses the divergent …
Where did states come from? Almost everyone thinks that states descended immediately, originally, and directly from British colonies, while only afterward joining together as the …
SA Gleason - Political Research Quarterly, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Women are less successful than their male counterparts at Supreme Court oral arguments under certain circumstances. However, existing work relies on mere presence rather than on …
CM Oldfather, JP Bockhorst, BP Dimmer - Fla. L. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
The increasing availability of digital versions of court documents, coupled with increases in the power and sophistication of computational methods of textual analysis, promises to …
SA Gleason - Politics & Gender, 2024 - cambridge.org
Female attorneys at the US Supreme Court are less successful than male attorneys under some conditions because of gender norms, implicit expectations about how men and …