We propose and evaluate an automated pipeline for discovering significant topics from legal
decision texts by passing features synthesized with topic models through penalized …

Given the complexity of the judiciary in the US Supreme Court, various procedures, along
with various resources, contribute to the court system. However, most research focuses on a …

Understanding the prevalence and dynamics of justice partisanship and ideology in the US
Supreme Court is critical in studying jurisdiction. Most research quantifies partisanship …

Estudios sobre cortes constitucionales han demostrado que la ideología del juez es un
buen predictor de su comportamiento judicial. Sin embargo, se ha prestado escasa atención …

The global expansion of judicial power is one of the most significant developments in late-
20th and early-21st century government. Scholars have identified this trend as the …

Empirical scholars have set out to refute Legalism in a simple version. Legalism has been
said to hold that “the law is 'out there', distinct from morals and politics, legal rules are …

While there is widespread evidence that sentences for similar cases tend to differ across
courts, the production of sentencing disparities by prosecutors versus judges has received …

Collegial decisions are exposed to peculiarities that individual judges do not face, such as
deliberations, leading judges as case managers, group thinking, and peer effects, among …

Judicial independence (JI)–understood as the insulation of courts against inappropriate
interference by political actors–is widely seen as a critical ingredient of good governance …

Constitutional law and politics in five Central Asian countries–Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan–have been a terra incognita in comparative …