Pearson, Iqbal, and Procedural Judicial Activism

Judicial Activism in State Supreme Courts: Institutional Design and Judicial Behavior

Defeasibility in Judicial Opinion: Logical or Procedural?

While defeasibility in legal reasoning has been the subject of recent scholarship, it has yet to be studied in the context of judicial opinion. Yet, being subject to appeal, judicial decisions can default for a variety of reasons. Prakken (2001) argued that the defeasibility affecting reasoning involved in adversarial legal argumentation is best analysed as procedural rather than logical. In th...

Application of Judicial Activism in Protecting The Environment: An Analysis

This article discusses and analyzes the Judicial Activism and its application in protecting environment, and steps taken by judiciary to accelerate this objective. The main objective behind this research is to identify the contemporary picture and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statuses through judicial procedure. It also analyzes the role of judi...

Procedural and Legal Motivations to Correct for Perceived Judicial Biases

The question of whether procedural or legal concerns per se can motivate corrections of jurors’ judgments when in conflict with accuracy concerns was examined. Mock jury members were exposed to diagnostic incriminating evidence that was obtained in either serious or mild violation of due process and that was ruled as admissible or inadmissible. When the evidence was obtained in serious violatio...

A Story of Suo Motos, Judicial Activism, and Article 184 (3)

The synergy between Big Data and Open Data has the potential to revolutionize information access in the developing world. Following this mantra, we present the analysis of more than a decade worth of open judgements and orders from the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Our overarching goal is to discern the presence of judicial activism in the country in the wake of the Lawyers’ Movement. Using Apache...