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"The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
In this Essay--the first in a series of essays designed to reimagine the Supreme Court--we argue that Congress should authorize the Court to adopt, in whole or part, panel decisionmaking. We recognize, of course, that this ...
Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
"The Threes"
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
Understanding Settlement in Damages (and Beyond)
(Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2004)
For all of the ways in which the Sabia case is extraordinary, its outcome--settlement--is decidedly ordinary. In most civil litigation, as in the Sabias' litigation against Dr. Maryellen Humes and Norwalk Hospital, ...
Judging by Heuristic: Cognitive Illusions in Judicial Decision Making
(Judicature, 2002)
The institutional legitmacy of the judiciary depends on the quality of the judgments that judges make. Even the most talented and dedicated judges surely make occasional mistakes, but the public expects judges to avoid ...
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. ...
The Impact of the Impact Bias on Negotiation
(Marquette Law Review, 2004)
The theory of principled or problem-solving negotiation assumes that negotiators are able to identify their interests (or what they really want) in a negotiation. Recent research on effective forecasting calls this assumption ...
Using Bargaining for Advantage in Law School Negotiation Courses
(Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2000)
Options, options, options ....The Negotiation literature-at least the "problem-solving" or "interestbased" or "principled" negotiation literature'repeats this mantra over and over and over. It seems self-evident that having ...
Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
The "Hidden Judiciary": An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
Administrative law judges attract little scholarly attention, yet they decide a large fraction of all civil disputes. In this Article, we demonstrate that these executive branch judges, like their counterparts in the ...