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 …

Are minorities treated differently by the legal system? Systematic racial differences in case
characteristics, many unobservable, make this a difficult question to answer directly. In this …

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 …

Believers in an independent federal judiciary are battle-weary. A familiar refrain used to
comfort them is that partisanship, at least among lower court judges, is not tolerated. As …

When analysts adopt surrogates of actors' political preferences for purposes unanticipated
by the inventors of those measures, they often stretch (but not explicitly assess) the range of …

One way that principals can overcome the problem of informational asymmetries in
hierarchical organizations is to enable whistleblowing. We evaluate how whistleblowing …

IDEOLOGY "ALL THE WAY DOWN"? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ESTABLISHMENT
CLAUSE DECISIONS IN THE FEDERAL COURTS Page 1 IDEOLOGY "ALL THE WAY …

For decades, researchers have studied the relationship between the political leanings of
judges and the outcomes of appellate litigation in the United States. The primary source of …

Many empirical studies have found that circuit judges' votes are significantly influenced by
their panel colleagues. Although this influence is typically measured in terms of colleagues' …

Immigration is a top concern among citizens across the globe. Research shows that the
salience of immigration shapes voters' political behavior, but little is known about whether it …