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Law Review: An Empirical Study of the Ideologies of Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals

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Corey Rayburn Yung, Judged by the Company You Keep: An Empirical Study of the Ideologies of Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals (June 1, 2010). Boston College Law Review, Vol. 51, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1618665 "While there has been an explosion of empirical legal scholarship about the federal judiciary, with a particular focus on judicial ideology, the question remains: how do we know what the ideology of a judge actually is? For federal courts below the United States Supreme Court, legal academics and political scientists have offered only very crude proxies to identify the ideologies of judges. This article attempts to cure this deficiency in empirical research about the federal courts by introducing a new technique for measuring the ideology of judges based upon judicial behavior in the United States Courts of Appeals."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 04, 2010 (boomark / email).