The mass publicity of court decisions in China, this article argues, is part the larger trend Chinese judiciary becoming increasingly centralized. transparency reform enables Supreme People’s Court to control information reporting process within judicial hierarchy and rein local courts through public scrutiny. Interestingly, responded strategically, making disclosure far poorer than required. M...

In 1988, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that premedication judicial review was required to force antipsychotic medications on incompetent committed patients in Minnesota. Before this decision all patients refusing antipsychotic medications at state hospitals were reviewed by an internal multidisciplinary peer review organization called the Treatment Review Panel (TRP). The author examined th...

embryo donation was one of the infertility treatment methods introduced to the iranian legal system in 2003 (act of embryo donation) and its by-law passed in 2005 after numerous discussions. embryo donation is a new legal issue in iran. no similar act has been previously legislated in the legal system; however, on the other hand, the importance of the judicial procedure in its execution cannot ...

Abstract: In this article, I review the decisions of the appellate courts in National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) cases over a twenty year period, 1994 to 2014, to ascertain what political, economic and legal factors impact judicial decision making. Unlike many other analyses of appellate decision making, this study makes a deliberate effort to take into account legal and procedural differen...

Among political scientists who study the courts, explanation of judicial behavior is the issue that receives the most attention. That issue is also a major concern in legal scholarship. Of course, judicial behavior takes many forms and occurs in many settings. The aspect of judicial behavior on which scholars typically concentrate is the decisions that appellate courts (and especially the Supre...