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Other Disciplines, Methodologies, and Countries: Studying Courts and Crisis
(Missouri Law Review, 2004)
How do governments and their citizens respond to fear and risk in times of crisis? Dr. Lee Epstein and Professor Christina Wells, in papers presented on the final symposium panel focus in particular on the Supreme Court's ...
Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein
(Green Bag 2d, 2007)
Degrees of separation is a concept that is intuitive and appealing in popular culture as well as academic discourse: It tells us something about the connectedness of a particular field. It also reveals paths of influence ...
Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2001)
This article considers systematically whether the Supreme Court is more likely to review an en banc court of appeals decision than a panel decision. First, we consider Supreme Court review of en banc cases during the ...
The Dynamics and Determinants of the Decision to Grant En Banc Review
(Washington Law Review, 1999)
The ability of U.S. Courts of Appeals to control the development of law within their respective circuits has been strained by the practice of divisional sittings, the growing
caseload at the circuit court level, the ...
Court Fixing
(Arizona Law Review, 2001)
This Article critically examines the existing social science evidence on the relative importance of various individual factors on judicial behavior and adds to that evidence by considering the influence of prior academic ...
U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles
(Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1992)
Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The ...
Judicial Independence and the Ambiguity of Article III Protections
(Ohio State Law Journal, 2003)
Is the federal judiciary truly an independent body? A quick glance at the Constitution would suggest the answer is yes. The Constitution provides for life tenure and a difficult removal process for federal judges that ...
The Futility of Appeal: Disciplinary Insights into the "Affirmance Effect" on the United States Courts of Appeals
(Florida State University Law Review, 2005)
In contrast to the Supreme Court, which typically reverses the cases it hears, the United States Courts of Appeals almost always affirm the cases that they hear. We set out to explore this affirmance effect on the U.S. ...
An Empirical Evaluation of Specialized Law Reviews
(Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
The sudden, rapid, and widespread increase in the number of specialized
law reviews has attracted relatively little scholarly attention
even though it is the most significant development in legal academic
publishing in ...
Mr. Sunstein's Neighborhood: Won't You Be Our Co-Author?
(The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2009)
In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship (11 Green Bag 2d 19 (2007)) we began the study of the collaboration network in legal academia. We concluded that the central figure in the network ...