It all depends on where you start. For free speech questions arising under the First
Amendment, as for a cornucopia of other legal topics, a single set of facts or a single …

The United States needs a Defender General—a public official charged with representing
the collective interests of criminal defendants before the Supreme Court of the United States …

A key influence on governance and regulation is the ideology of individual decisionmakers.
However, certain branches of government–such as courts–while wielding wide ranging …

What difference do starting points make? The question is important for decision-making in
general and for law in particular, including the interpretation of statutes. Judges must begin …

How would judges compose judicial panels, if they could? We focus on a procedure in the
Supreme Court of Israel that allows each justice to compose three‐justice panels, collecting …

How do interest groups influence US Supreme Court justices to vote in favor of their
preferred outcomes? Following prior research on the influence of the Solicitor General, we …

A significant undiscussed problem with the leading conceptualization of ideologically based
judicial behavior, Jeffrey Segal and Harold Spaeth's attitudinal model, is its lack of theory …

Are judges motivated only by policy preferences? Public enforcement of law relies on the
use of public agents, such as judges, to follow the law. We use the random assignment of …

Everyone is a judge of many things, but few of us have the power of the government behind
our judgments. Those who do—the judges of trial courts and appellate courts within legal …

Scholars have been limited in the development and testing of theory regarding the incidence
and impact of organized interest advocacy at the US Supreme Court due to a critical …