Among political scientists, not only is it uncontroversial to say that judges seek to etch their
political values into law; it would be near heresy to suggest otherwise. And yet this article …

I often say that when you can mea sure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know some thing about it; but when you cannot mea sure it, when you cannot …

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new
book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and …

We study how two selection systems for public officials, appointment and election, affect
policy outcomes, focusing on state court judges and their criminal sentencing decisions …

Until recently (eg Lindquist, 2007), few studies have examined the factors that might affect
aspects of judicial efficiency, including the time it takes a court to decide a case. In our …

Economic analysis of substantive legal rules generally suppresses the adjudication of
factual and legal disputes that a legal rule might engender. The nature of adjudication …

The Constitution of the United States provides that the judges of courts that exercise the
judicial power of the United States are entitled to office for life, subject only to a requirement …

I study elections between citizen-candidates who cannot make binding policy commitments
before taking office, but who are accountable to voters due to the possibility of re-election. In …

The public debate over the need to raise judicial salaries has been one-sided. Sentiment
appears to be that judges are underpaid. But neither theory nor evidence provides much …

Judges, lawmakers, and scholars have long debated whether the federal courts of appeals
are understaffed and. if so, how Congress should go about redressing that fact. Even though …