In this article, we consider whether personal relationships can affect the way that judges
decide cases. To do so, we leverage the natural experiment of a child's gender to identify the …

Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous
principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally …

Humans make mistakes. Humans make mistakes especially while filling out tax returns,
benefit applications, and other government forms, which are often tainted with complex …

For a very long time, it has been an article of faith among those who pay attention to
constitutional law that Lochner v. New York 1 was obviously and irredeemably wrong …

This work presents ten arguments against a gorithmic decision-making. These revolve
around the concepts of ubiquitous discretionary interpretation, ho istic intuition, a gorithmic …

En la fase de cerrar esta obra, nos llega la noticia de que el profesor Martín Bassols Coma
ha fallecido en septiembre de 2018. No es una noticia agradable para nadie y menos para …

Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display,
manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental …

New and emerging technologies are reshaping justice systems and transforming the role of
judges. The impacts vary according to how structural reforms take place and how courts …

A prosecutor's decision to charge or dismiss a criminal case is a particularly high-stakes
choice. There is concern, however, that these judgements may suffer from explicit or implicit …

Judicial responsiveness requires judges to act from the perspective of conscious legal
rationality and also with intuition, empathy and compassion. To what extent will the judicial …