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 …

The digitization of legal texts and advances in artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, text mining, network analysis, and machine learning have led to new forms of …

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 …

One-dimensional spatial models have come to inform much theorizing and research on the
US Supreme Court. However, we argue that judicial preferences vary considerably across …

Estimation of ideological positions among voters, legislators, and other actors is central to
many subfields of political science. Recent applications include large data sets of various …

The concept of precedent is fundamental to domestic courts, especially in Anglo-American
common law systems, where judges are bound to the court's past decisions. By contrast …

Conventional arguments identify either the median justice or the opinion author as the most
influential justices in shaping the content of Supreme Court opinions. We develop a model of …

Item response theory models for roll‐call voting data provide political scientists with
parsimonious descriptions of political actors' relative preferences. However, models using …

We introduce a new method to measure the ideology of state Supreme Court justices using
campaign finance records. In addition to recovering ideal point estimates for both incumbent …

An enduring piece of legal wisdom contends that the value of court opinions depreciates as
they age and a variety of factors lead some cases to depreciate faster than others. We …