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Law 786S. Judicial Decisionmaking SeminarSyllabus [PDF] Meeting 2. Empirical Legal Studies and Statistics Lecture [9/13]Background: Lee Epstein and Gary King. 2002. "The Rules of Inference." University of Chicago Law Review. 69: 1-133. [JSTOR]Slides from the lecture. [PDF] Meeting 5. The Attitudinal Model [9/27]C. Herman Pritchett. 1941. "Divisions of Opinion Among Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1941." American Political Science Review. 35: 890-898. [JSTOR]Robert Dahl. 1957. "Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker." Journal of Public Law. 6: 279-295. [HeinOnline] Jeffrey A. Segal and Albert D. Cover. 1989. "Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices." American Political Science Review. 83: 557-565. [JSTOR] Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Lee Epstein. 2005. "The Median Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court." North Carolina Law Review. 83: 1275-1321. [HeinOnline] Meeting 6. Role and Background [10/4]J. W. Howard. 1977. "Role Perceptions and Behavior in Three U.S. Courts of Appeals." Journal of Politics. 39: 916-938. [JSTOR]James L. Gibson. 1978. "Judges' Role Orientations, Attitudes, and Decisions: An Interactive Model." American Political Science Review. 72: 911-924. [JSTOR] C. N. Tate. 1981. "Personal Attribute Models of the Voting Behavior of U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Liberalism in Civil Liberties and Economic Decisions, 1946-1978." American Political Science Review 75: 355-368. [JSTOR] Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin. 2010. "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging." American Journal of Political Science. 54: 389-411. [PDF] Meeting 7. Legal and Strategic Models [10/11]Tracey E. George and Lee Epstein. 1992. "On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Review. 86: 323-337. [JSTOR]Wahlbeck, Paul J., James F. Spriggs, II, and Forrest Maltzman. 1998. "Marshalling the Court: Bargaining and Accommodation on the U.S. Supreme Court." American Journal of Political Science. 42: 294-315. [JSTOR] Mark J. Richard and Herbert M. Kritzer. 2002. "Jurisprudential Regimes in Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Review. 96: 305-321. [JSTOR] Friedman, Barry. 2006. "Taking Law Seriously." Perspectives on Politics 4: 261-76. [JSTOR] Meeting 8. Circuit Courts [10/18]Richard L. Revesz. 1997. "Environmental Regulation, Ideology, and the D. C. Circuit." Virginia Law Review. 83: 1717-1772. [JSTOR]Frank B. Cross and Emerson H. Tiller. 1998. "Judicial Partisanship and Obedience to Legal Doctrine: Whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeals." Yale Law Journal. 107: 2155-2176. [JSTOR] Harry T. Edwards. 1998. "Collegiality and Decision Making on the D. C. Circuit." Virginia Law Review. 84: 1335-1370. [JSTOR] Richard L. Revesz. 1999. "Ideology, Collegiality, and the D. C. Circuit: A Reply to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards." Virginia Law Review. 85: 805-851. [JSTOR] Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, and Lisa Michelle Ellman. 2004. "Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation." Virginia Law Review. 90: 301-354. [JSTOR] Meeting 9. Trial Courts [10/25]C. K. Rowland and Robert A. Carp. 1980. "A Longitudinal Study of Party Effects on Federal District Court Policy Propensities." American Journal of Political Science. 24: 291-305. [JSTOR]Judith Resnik. 1982. "Managerial Judges." Harvard Law Review. 96: 374-448. [JSTOR] Pauline Kim, Margo Schlanger, Christina L. Boyd, and Andrew D. Martin. 2009. "How Should We Study District Court Decision-Making?" Journal of Law and Policy. 29: 83-112. [HeinOnline] Meeting 10. Selection [11/1]Byron J. Moraski and Charles R. Shipan. 1999. "The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A Theory of Institutional Constraints and Choices." American Journal of Political Science. 43:1069-1095. [JSTOR]Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, and Todd Peppers. 2001. "Picking Federal Judges: A Note on Policy and Partisan Selection Agendas." Political Research Quarterly. 54: 623-641. [JSTOR] Wendy L. Martinek, Mark Kemper, and Steve R. Van Winkle. 2002. "To Advise and Consent: The Senate and Lower Federal Court Nominations, 1977-1998." Journal of Politics. 64: 337-361. [JSTOR] Stephen G. Calabresi and James Lindgren. "Term Limits for the Supreme Court: Life Tenure Reconsidered." \emph{Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy}. 29: 769-877. [HeinOnline] Meeting 11. Judicial Elections [11/8]Melinda Gann Hall. 2001. "State Supreme Courts in American Democracy: Probing the Myths of Judicial Reform." American Political Science Review. 95: 315-330. [JSTOR]Melinda Gann Hall and Chris W. Bonneau. 2008. "Moblizing Interest: The Effects of Money on Citizen Participation in State Supreme Court Elections." American Journal of Political Science. 52: 457-470. [JSTOR] Caperton v. Massey, 129 S. Ct. 2252 (2009) [LINK] Brennan Center. 2010. The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2000-2009: Decade of Change. http://www.brennancenter.org. [LINK] Meeting 12. Agenda Setting [11/15]Gregory A. Caldeira, and John R. Wright. 1988. "Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court." American Political Science Review. 82: 1109-1127. [JSTOR]Ryan C. Black and Ryan J. Owens. 2009. "Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence." Journal of Politics. 71: 1062-1075. [LINK] Christina L. Boyd. 2010. "The Impact of Courts of Appeals on Substantive and Procedural Success in the Federal District Courts." Working paper. [LINK] Meeting 13. Intra- and Inter-Branch Models [11/29]John A. Ferejohn and Barry R. Weingast. 1991. "A Positive Theory of Statutory Interpretation." International Review of Law and Economics. 12: 263-279. [ScienceDirect]Gregory A. Caldeira. 1985. "The Transmission of Legal Precedent: A Study of State Supreme Courts." American Political Science Review. 79: 178-193. [JSTOR] Donald R. Songer, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Charles M. Cameron. 1994. "The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions." American Journal of Political Science. 38: 673-96. [JSTOR] Return to Teaching Page |
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