according to the article 4(1) of the charter of the united nations four conditions (stateness, peace-loving, acceptance of the obligations in the charters obligation) should be maintained for the admission of the new members. despite the express enunciation of these conditions and the confirmation of those conditions by the international court of justice (icj) in his advisory opinion on “the co...

How do disagreements between judges on collegial (multimember) courts affect legal policy? We address this question by developing an account of the nature of judicial disagreements in the case-space model of judicial choice. We distinguish between different types of disagreement, from disagreements about case facts to disagreements about how legal rules should treat varying case facts, and cons...

In this article I present the first two of a new series open and high-quality international legal data sets: comprehensive, fully reproducible, human- machine-readable access collections covering one hundred years case law primary judicial organs United Nations League Nations: Corpus Decisions: International Court Justice (CD-ICJ) Permanent (CD-PCIJ). Each corpus is designed to capture in its e...

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As one of the few studies to examine internal influence among Justices on the United States Supreme Court, this Note seeks to identify the most influential individuals on the Rehnquist Court. Using an empirical analysis of non-majority opinion joining behavior, this Note examines two time periods separately: the entire Rehnquist Court (the 1986 to 2004 Terms) and the time when the membership on...