Blogs about: Judicial Decisionmaking

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The appellate process explained

Appellate Squawk wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Criminal Defense Appeals, Law & Parody, Appellate Review, Criminal Appeals

Implicit Bias in Employment Discrimination Litigation

The Situationist Staff wrote 11 months ago: Judge Nancy Gertner and Melissa Hart have recently posted their chapter, titled “Implicit Bias … more →

Tags: Law, Implicit Associations, Abstracts, Employment Discrimination, implicit bias, Discretion

Escresa and Garoupa on Judicial Decision Making on the Philippine Supreme Court, an Empirical Analysis 1986-2010

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Dr. Laarni Escresa of Institut für Recht und Ökonomik der Universität Hamburg and Professor Dr. Nuno … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Asian Journal of Law and Economics, Empirical methods in legal communication studies, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Legal decisionmaking, Philippine Supreme Court, supreme court of the philippines

Bushway et al. on the Influence of Advisory Sentencing Guidelines on Judicial Decision Making

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Professor Dr. Shawn D. Bushway of the University of Albany, Professor Dr. Emily G. Owens of Cornell … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Criminal law information systems, Criminal procedure information systems, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Shawn D. Bushway, Emily G. Owens, Anne Morrison Piehl

Eisenberg et al.: Assessing Judge and Case Selection Effects in a Court of Last Resort

legalinformatics wrote 11 months ago: Professor Theodore Eisenberg of Cornell University Law School, and Dr. Talia Fisher and Dr. Issi Ros … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Judicial decisionmaking in criminal cases, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Theodore Eisenberg, Bias in judges' legal decisionmaking, Talia Fisher, Issi Rosen-Zvi

Becoming the "compleat lawyer" the Aldisert way

Paul Lomio wrote 1 year ago: From time to time I will get a call or e-mail from a proud parent whose son or daughter has been adm … more →

Tags: New Books, Professional reading, Prepare to Practice, Book Review, Legal Research & Writing, precedent, Judicial behavior, Law Students, Briefs

New to the legal lexicon: dissental and concurral

Paul Lomio wrote 1 year ago: A story in today’s Daily Journal reports on the usage by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th … more →

Tags: Judicial behavior, Appellate judges, Legal Terminology, Grammar, Alex Kozinski, John Roemer, Portmanteau words, en banc

Vining: Judicial Decision and the Unconscious

Kevin C. Walsh wrote 1 year ago: “What is unconsciously motivated is not for that reason inaccessible, secret, arbitrary, with … more →

Tags: Law, vining

Article on Blogging by Chinese Judges

Sergio Stone wrote 2 years ago: Professor Anne Sy Cheung’s article in the Harvard International Law Journal includes a couple … more →

Tags: Foreign Law, Judicial behavior, ethics, Judicial research, Judicial Ethics, China, East Asia, Legal Research, Chinese law

Cross & Donelson on Creating Quality Courts

legalinformatics wrote 2 years ago: Professor Frank B. Cross of the University of Texas School of Law, and Professor Dr. Dain C. Donelso … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Assessment of judicial systems, Dain C. Donelson, Empirical methods in legal communication studies, Empirical methods in legal informatics, Evaluation of judicial systems, Frank B. Cross, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Gazal-Ayal & Sulitzeanu-Kenan on Ethnic In-Group Bias in Judicial Decisions

legalinformatics wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Oren Gazal-Ayal of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, and Dr. Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan of th … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Legal information behavior, Legal decisionmaking, Criminal law information systems, Criminal procedure information systems, Empirical methods in legal informatics, Judges' legal information behavior, Empirical methods in legal communication studies

Schwartz & Petherbridge on The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study

legalinformatics wrote 2 years ago: Professor David L. Schwartz of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Professor Dr. Lee Petherbridge of … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Court Decisions, Legal Scholarship, Legal information behavior, Legal Argumentation, Legal rhetoric, Legal citation studies, Legal communication

Connolly et al. on Judicial Decision Making in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Canada: A Study of Assessments of Credibility

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: Professor Deborah A. Connolly of the Simon Fraser University Department of Psychology, Professor Hea … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Research Findings, Legal evidence information systems, Legal decisionmaking, Criminal law information systems, Criminal procedure information systems, Legal communication, Empirical methods in legal informatics, Empirical methods in legal communication studies

Solum, What Is Originalism?

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: Legal informatics and legal communication researchers seeking a concise overview of the scholarly de … more →

Tags: articles and papers, legal interpretation, Interpretation of legal language, Legal rhetoric, Legal communication, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation, Larry Solum

Benforado on Frames of Injustice: The Bias We Overlook

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: Professor Adam Benforado of the Drexel University School of Law has published Frames of Injustice: T … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Bias in judicial decisionmaking, Legal communication, Psychology and legal informatics, Cognitive psychology and legal informatics, Cognitive processing of legal information, Bias in legal decisionmaking, Psychology and legal communication, Judges' legal decisionmaking

Feb. 22: Zebrowitz on the Effects of Physiognomy on Judicial Decisions, at Harvard's Berkman Center

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: [NOTE: Click here for video & audio webcasts of this event, as of 24 February 2010.] Professor L … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Lectures, Legal decisionmaking, Legal communication, Empirical methods in legal informatics, Empirical methods in legal communication studies, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Jurors' legal decisionmaking, Psychological methods in legal informatics

Ursin on How Great Judges Think: Judges Richard Posner, Henry Friendly, and Roger Traynor on Judicial Lawmaking

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: Professor Edmund Ursin of the University of San Diego School of Law has published How Great Judges T … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Interpretation of legal language, Legal decisionmaking, Legal communication, Judicial Activism, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Originalism in the interpretation of legal language, Originalism in legal interpretation

The Effects of Diversity on Judicial Decision Making: Report on ABA Panel

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: The influence of judges’ social diversity on judges’ decision making was the topic of a … more →

Tags: articles and papers, conference proceedings, Research Findings, Conference papers, Legal decisionmaking, Empirical methods in legal informatics, Statistical methods in legal informatics, Empirical methods in legal communication studies, Judges' legal decisionmaking

Barker on Decision Making at the Supreme Court of Canada

legalinformatics wrote 3 years ago: Susan Barker of the University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library has published Decision Making at t … more →

Tags: articles and papers, Legal decisionmaking, Legal communication, Psychology and legal informatics, Judges' legal decisionmaking, Psychology and legal communication studies, Canadian Law Library Review, susan barker, Supreme Court of Canada


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