[Behavioral research has] the potential to engender serious confusion over judicial decision
making. Even worse,[it] may mislead the unsuspecting... into thinking that judges are lawless …

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 …

Timothy R. Johnson focuses on an all-too-often ignored aspect of the Supreme Court s
decision-making process by providing a systematic explanation of how justices use oral …

When analysts adopt surrogates of actors' political preferences for purposes unanticipated
by the inventors of those measures, they often stretch (but not explicitly assess) the range of …

In 1961 Harold Spaeth published an article in the predecessor of this journal that concluded
that an examination of the votes of Supreme Court justices was,"... protection against the …

I. Introduction The critical analysis of political corruption is hobbled, in part, by confusion
over what is meant by the term corruption. 1 Until recently, the United States Supreme …

The Supreme Court of Japan (SCJ) is known for its extreme selfrestraint in judicial review
and has long been criticized by constitutional and socio-legal scholars for not fulfilling its …

Most lawyers have a doctrinal understanding of constitution. They are skeptical of any
political understanding of a constitution, feeling that this may taint the sacredness of the …

Resumo This paper analyses Brazilian Supreme Federal Court s (Supremo Tribunal
Federal, STF) decision behavior, under the specific perspective of the general repercussion …

The New Legal Realist movement seeks to foster inter-disciplinary studies that combine the
best of legal scholarship and the social sciences. This goal is laudable, but results can vary …