As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

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 …

This Article offers the first empirical account of the global evolution of rights constitutionalism.
Our analysis of an original data set that spans the rights-related content of all national …

We review the substantial literature on estimating judicial ideology, from the US Supreme
Court to the lowest state court. As a way to showcase the strengths and drawbacks of …

In 1987, to mark the bicentennial of the US Constitution, Time magazine released a special
issue in which it called the Constitution" a gift to all nations" and proclaimed proudly that 160 …

Court scholars have a voracious appetite for Supreme Court preference measures. Several
articles question whether widely used Martin and Quinn (, 2011) scores provide valid …

The claim that the United States is experiencing a litigation explosion has long been a fixture
of American discourse.'Using careful empirical analysis, legal scholars and social scientists …

ABSTRACT In 2009, the Supreme Court changed the procedures for a significant aspect of
constitutional litigation. In Pearson v. Callahan, the Court rejected a rigid requirement that in …

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 …

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TWIQBAL PUZZLE AND EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CIVIL PROCEDURE David Freeman …