I often say that when you can mea sure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know some thing about it; but when you cannot mea sure it, when you cannot …

The extent to which judicial outcomes depend on judges' identities is a central question in
multiethnic societies. Past work on the impact of the racial composition of appellate courts …

The past decade has witnessed a worldwide explosion of work aimed at illuminating judicial-
behavior: the choices judges make and the consequences of their choices. We focus on …

This chapter, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law,
critically reviews the behavioral literature on judicial decisionmaking. Among other things, it …

We study 1,410 mandatory jurisdiction and 48 discretionary jurisdiction criminal law case
outcomes in cases appealed to the Israel Supreme Court in 2006 and 2007 to assess …

Previous studies of judgment and decision‐making in adjudication have largely focused on
juries and judges. This body of work demonstrated that legal training and professional …

The non‐legal factors that influence judicial decisions have been the subject of extensive
debate. Theoretical and empirical work has focused on factors including political ideology …

A key influence on governance and regulation is the ideology of individual decisionmakers.
However, certain branches of government–such as courts–while wielding wide ranging …

Problematyka monografii dotyczy (...) kwestii kluczowych z punktu widzenia społeczeństwa
oraz jakości jego instytucji. Kwestie dostępu do prawa były rzadko podejmowane przez …

Driving discovery in the study of law and legal institutions often requires infrastructure in the
form of databases and other tools. The challenge is how to build the infrastructure. For …