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Blinking on the Bench

By The Situationist Staff

Chris Guthrie, Jeff Rachlinski, & Andrew Wistrich have an interesting new paper, “Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases.” Here is the abstract: How do judges judge? Do they apply law to facts in a mechanical and deliberative way, as the formalists suggest they do, or do they rely on hunches and gut feelings, [...]

Full post as published by The Situationist on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).