Browsing by Subject "Supreme Court"
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A Data-Intensive Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Supreme Court Behavior
(2012)Many law professors and scholars think of the Supreme Court as a black box--issues and arguments go in to the Court, and decisions come out. The almost mystical nature that these researchers impute to the Court seems to ... -
Is Lady Justice Blind? Reading Brazil's 2012 Affirmative Action Decision Through the Struggle for Gender Equality
(E-Legis - Revista Eletrônica do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Câmara dos Deputados, 2017-12) -
Judicial Review, the Long-Run Game: Endogenous Institutional Change at the U.S. Supreme Court
(2014)In this project, I examine why the judicial authority of the United States Supreme Court has increased. I propose a theoretical explanation of endogenous institutional change at the Court whereby the actions of ... -
Newspapers and the Supreme Court: In re Capital Punishment
(2014-01-30)This paper examines how the Supreme Court and newsprint media interface with and react to each other’s arguments, justification, and framing of the death penalty. As the philosophical justification behind the use of capital ... -
The Development and Resolution of Conflict Among Federal Appellate Courts
(2022)Circuit splits, arising when U.S. Courts of Appeals create contradictory legal rules, are one of the most important phenomena in American law. Making up a significant proportion of the Supreme Court’s docket, cases involving ...
