Does ideology matter when district judges sentence?
Anyone who is keen to study what judges actually do must read a new empirical analysis by giants in their respective fields of political science, economics and law. See Lee Epstein, William M. Landes...
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Photo credit: frans 16611′s photostream per Creative Commons license. The authors of The Behavior of Federal Judges A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice, discussed in the last post,...
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I wrote a post some time ago entitled “Football is dead and so are civil jury trials in the federal courts.” That prompted my extremely bright antagonist, Vince, to refer me to a New York Times...
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