Ethics

Argument starter Talking about (judicial) ideology
Bryan Lammon has posted a paper on SSRN titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Ideology: Judicial Politics Scholarship and Naive Legal Realism.” As you might expect from the title, it takes on political science accounts of judicial decision making and suggests that political science conceptions of judicial ideology are “quite unsatisfying...

Beebe on Fair Use & Judicial Ideology
Barton Beebe (Cardozo Law School) has posted Does Judicial Ideology Affect Copyright Fair Use Outcomes?: Evidence from the Fair Use Case Law (Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol...

Cox & Miles on Judicial Ideology & Voting Rights Jurisprudence
Adam B. Cox & Thomas J. Miles (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Judicial Ideology and the Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence (University of Chicago Law Review, Vol...

New Paper on Collegial Decision-Making at the Supreme Court of Canada
University of Toronto law professors Andrew Green and Benjamin Alarie have posted a new paper on the Social Science Research Network entitled Should They All Just Get Along? Judicial Ideology, Collegiality, and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada: “Over the past 25 years, the justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have not exhibited the [...

Spatial Attitudinalism & Phillip Morris v. Williams
It is routine for political scientists to employ a "spatial attitudinalist" model of judicial decision-making, in which a judge's votes are predicted by the judge's non-legal ideology (often measured by the political party of the President who appointed the judge)...

The Intersection of Judicial Attitudes and Litigant Selection Theories
I recently posted a paper of mine, “The Intersection of Judicial Attitudes and Litigant Selection Theories: Explaining U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making” on SSRN. It is co-authored with Elizabeth Coggins, a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill...

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Mirrors
Recalled Due to Impact and Laceration Hazards

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.