How do frontline judges perceive managerial reforms, and how do they cope with them? We
relied on concepts from street-level bureaucracy to systematically review the effects of …

Substantial research and policymaking have focused on the importance of lawyers in
ensuring access to civil justice. But do lawyers matter more in cases decided by certain …

Collegiality plays a central role in judicial decision‐making. However, we still lack empirical
evidence about the effects of collegiality on judicial decision‐making. In this article, I argue …

Since the late nineteenth century, 2 Congress has delegated authority to federal agencies to
resolve disputes between individuals and the government in adjudicatory proceedings …

Constructing the digital administrative state is one of the current major challenges of public
administration. Yet the corresponding design of administrative technology lacks a coherent …

This paper is a discussion of whether single‐member judicial panels are an effective way of
accelerating the delivery of criminal justice. We use a reform which introduced single …

We exploit judge retirements from the Social Security Disability Insurance judicial corps to
document how remaining judges respond to workplace disruptions. When a peer judge …

Scholars of law, economics, and political science argue that collegiality matters.
Considerable panel effects exist across jurisdictions, and judges compose panels …

Criminal defendants can face significant pressures to plead guilty, but wrongful conviction
scholarship has largely overlooked the study of guilty pleas. This study content analyzed …

Panel effects have been widely studied in randomly composed panels. However, for many
courts, panel composition stays constant. Then judges become familiar with each other …