A general approach for predicting the behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States

DM Katz, MJ Bommarito, J Blackman - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Building on developments in machine learning and prior work in the science of judicial
prediction, we construct a model designed to predict the behavior of the Supreme Court of …

[图书][B] Constitutional Law:[Connected EBook with Study Center]

GR Stone, LM Seidman, CR Sunstein, MV Tushnet… - 2023 - books.google.com
Constitutional Law, Ninth Edition by Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein,
Mark V. Tushnet, Pamela S. Karlan, Aziz Z. Huq, and Leah M. Litman guides students …

How public opinion constrains the US Supreme Court

CJ Casillas, PK Enns… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Although scholars increasingly acknowledge a contemporaneous relationship between
public opinion and Supreme Court decisions, debate continues as to why this relationship …

[图书][B] Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest groups and judicial decision making

PM Collins Jr - 2008 - books.google.com
The US Supreme Court is a public policy battleground in which organized interests attempt
to etch their economic, legal, and political preferences into law through the filing of amicus …

Explaining the Supreme Court's shrinking docket

RJ Owens, DA Simon - Wm. & Mary L. Rev., 2011 - HeinOnline
In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has decided fewer cases than at any other
time in its recent history. Scholars and practitioners alike have criticized the drop in the …

Does legal doctrine matter? Unpacking law and policy preferences on the US Supreme Court

MA Bailey, F Maltzman - American Political Science Review, 2008 - cambridge.org
Judicial scholars often struggle to disentangle the effects of law and policy preferences on
US Supreme Court decision making. We employ a new approach to measuring the effect—if …

Myth of the color-blind judge: An empirical analysis of racial harassment cases

PK Chew, RE Kelley - Wash. UL Rev., 2008 - HeinOnline
In this Article, we present an exploratory empirical study of federal workplace racial
harassment cases that span a twenty-year period. Multiple analyses found that judges' race …

The Supreme Court in American democracy: Unraveling the linkages between public opinion and judicial decision making

MW Giles, B Blackstone… - The Journal of Politics, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
There is wide scholarly agreement that the frequent replacement of justices has kept the
Supreme Court generally attuned to public opinion. Recent research indicates that, in …

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Decision-Making: The Wide Open?

M Scherer - Journal of international arbitration, 2019 - kluwerlawonline.com
The article explores the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in arbitral or judicial decision-making
from a holistic point of view, exploring the technical aspects of AI, its practical limitations as …

What is judicial ideology, and how should we measure it

JB Fischman, DS Law - Wash. UJL & Pol'y, 2009 - HeinOnline
It has become de rigueur for leading law schools to profess great enthusiasm for both
interdisciplinary and empirical research. Yet not all work in this vein has been warmly …