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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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Genghis Khan and sentencing

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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The Supreme Court’s alleged pro-business stance and Kopf’s analytical skills...

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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