United States Supreme Court justices make decisions that have a profound impact on
American society. Empirical legal scholars have portrayed justices as either single-minded …

Constitutional accountability for police shootings is imposed in part through civil rights
lawsuits alleging Fourth Amendment violations, but little is known about how judges …

In two upcoming cases, the Supreme Court will consider whether to overturn the Chevron
doctrine, which, since 1984, has required courts to defer to reasonable agency …

We investigate whether inherent differences between the majority opinions of US Supreme
Court justices result in certain justices being systematically more influential compared to …

Defense Council, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Ninth Circuit holding that
navigable water passing through a concrete channel does not constitute" discharge" under …

Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body
of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important …

We study the US Supreme Court dynamics by analyzing the temporal evolution of the
underlying policy positions of the Supreme Court Justices as reflected by their actual voting …

Judges, scholars, and commentators decry inconsistent areas of judicially created policy.
This could hurt courts' policy making efficacy, so why do judges allow it to happen? I show …

The ability of interest groups to use case sponsorship to influence the direction of the
American Supreme Court's jurisprudence has been recognized as one of the largest …

Appellate courts are part of both federal and state judiciaries. They serve to correct lower
court errors but, more importantly, serve as key policymakers in their respective jurisdictions …