Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China

Extraneous factors in judicial decisions.

Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges and that psychological, political, and social factors influence judicial rulings...

Judicial Decisions as Legislation: Congressional Oversight of Supreme Court Tax Cases, 1954–2005

This Article offers a new understanding of the dynamic between the Supreme Court and Congress. It responds to an important literature that for several decades has misunderstood interbranch relations as continually fraught with antagonism and distrust. This unfriendly dynamic, many have argued, is evidenced by repeated congressional overrides of Supreme Court cases. While this claim is true in s...

Evaluation of the First Judicial District Court Adult Drug Court:

Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions∗

Racial and gender disparities are prevalent in the criminal justice system, but the sources of these disparities remain largely unknown. This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to these disparities using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican appointed judges sentence black de...

yarghv court: research on judicial court

yarghv was the exclusive mongol jurisdiction court to resolve claims and disputes in various fields and was formed in most areas of the mongol empire, including the patriarch of iran (654-750 ah). the court mostly took place for political and some economical and social crimes, in mongol military camps. in this court, some methods similar to islamic courts were used, such as testimony, forced co...