Imagine a paper about constitutional theory that offers the following argument:" All officials
are ambitious, and thus prone to maximize their power. To solve the problem, judges should …

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the US
courts of appeals had been composed almost entirely of white males. But by 2008, over a …

While Supreme Court cases are generally salient or important, some are many degrees
more important than others. A wide range of theoretical and empirical work throughout the …

In the Supreme Court's most closely divided cases, one pivotal justice can determine the
outcome. Given this fact, judicial scholars have paid substantial attention to the swing …

Existing scholarship on the voting behavior of US Courts of Appeals judges finds that their
decisions are best understood as a function of law, policy preferences, and factors relating to …

What roles do prior expertise and accumulated experience play in shaping ideologically
consistent voting on a specialized court? Using a dataset of obviousness patent cases from …

Key questions in American politics are whether and why the Supreme Court is responsive to
public opinion. Past scholarship has suggested a strong relationship between changes in …

Contrary to traditional deterministic notions of algorithmic fairness, this paper argues that
fairly allocating scarce resources using machine learning often requires randomness. We …

When presidents take positions on pending Supreme Court cases or criticize the Court's
decisions, they are susceptible to being attacked for acting as bullies and violating the norm …

According to the scales of justice, the judge, in an unbiased way and directed by law,
attends to all of the available information in a case, weighs it according to its significance …