Narrowing Supreme Court Precedent from Below Page 1 Narrowing Supreme Court Precedent
from Below RICHARD M. RE* Lower courts supposedly follow Supreme Court precedent-but …

Since the 1990s, there has been an explosion of empirical and theoretical work dedicated to
advancing strategic accounts of law and legal institutions. Reviewing this extensive literature …

The amicus machine has arrived. Ninety-eight percent of US Su-preme Court cases now
have amicus curiae (" friend of the court") filings; 800 briefs are filed each term with the …

Scholars have paid much attention to judicial decision making and behavior.'In exploring the
theoretical aspects of judicial decisions, legal scholars and social scientists have offered …

This essay reviews two recent works in political science on the American conservative legal
movement: Steven M. Teles's The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for …

This Article proposes that dissenting Supreme Court Justices provide cues in their written
opinions about how future litigants can reframe case facts and legal arguments in similar …

Throughout its history, the United States Supreme Court has handed down many decisions
that have shaped, and continue to shape, the character of public policy. The kinds of issues …

Abstract In South Korea, a vote of at least six justices (out of nine) is required for the
Constitutional Court (CCK) to declare a law unconstitutional. This supermajority requirement …

Nearly one year after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v.
Heller,'lower courts have had a number of opportunities to apply it in challenges to a myriad …

We examine the revelation of preferences of justices whose true ideologies are not known
when entering the Court but gradually become apparent through their judicial decisions. In a …