Intercircuit splits occur when two or more circuits on the US Courts of Appeals issue different
legal rules about the same legal question. When this happens, federal law is applied …

El objetivo de esta tesis es proponer una forma-distinta a la prevalecientede concebir la
función de los jueces constitucionales, de ejercer la jurisdicción constitucional e …

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 …

Where do prescient ideas—those that initially challenge conventional assumptions but later
achieve widespread acceptance—come from? Although their outcomes in the form of …

Crucial to understanding the behavior of judges and the outputs of courts is the institutional
context in which they operate. One key component of courts' institutional structure is that the …

Two models, the hierarchical model and the local control model, drive the way we talk about
the decisions court actors and judges make. However, neither considered in isolation is an …

We study a dynamic model in which a politician (most commonly an executive) makes
authority claims that are subject to a hard constraint (administered, typically, by a court). At …

Do lower court judges influence the content of Supreme Court opinions in the United
Kingdom? Leveraging original data, we analyze opinion language adoption practices of the …

Separated powers cannot permanently constrain individual ambitions. Concerns about a
government's ability to respond to contemporary and future crises, we show, invariably …

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings
together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical …