The Wik Decision: Judicial Activism or Conventional Ruling?

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...

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

Ruling the Business: About Business Rules and Decision Tables

Business rules have become a common approach to understanding, specifying and implementing business processes. This new approach adds to the work that has been done in knowledge-based systems technology in such areas as knowledge acquisition, modeling, representation, validation and verification, inferencing, etc. Also, the decision table technique is continuously being used (and rediscovered) ...

Law making 
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The judicial production of law and the legislative production of law make a striking distinction between the two legal traditions. Despite of these differences, judges in both legal traditions in adjudicating cases have a common task, which is the application of legal rules to the facts of cases pending for judgments. The tension between the certainty and the “discretion” is universal for any l...

Gender, Critical Mass, and Judicial Decision Making

We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to the U.S. federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest themselves in the decision-making proclivities of male and female judges, contingent on the existence of a critical mass of female judges at a court point (i.e., each city in which a district court is located). Our result...