SelectedWorks - Chris Guthrie

Selected Works of Chris Guthrie

Dean & John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law

Works
About

×

About Chris Guthrie

Inside the Arbitrator's Mind

Emory Law Journal (2017)

Chris Guthrie, Susan D. Franck, Anne van Aaken, James Freda, et al.

Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what judges are to domestic dispute ...

Judicial Politics and Decisionmaking: A New Approach

Vanderbilt Law Review (2017)

Chris Guthrie, Andrew J. Wistrich and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

In twenty-five different experiments conducted on over 2,200 judges, we assessed whether judges' political ideology influences their resolution of hypothetical ...

Altering Attention in Adjudication

UCLA Law Review (2013)

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachinski and Andrew J. Wistrich

Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention to ...

Contrition in the Courtroom: Do Apologies Affect Adjudication?

Cornell Law Review (2013)

Apologies usually help to repair social relationships and appease aggrieved parties. Previous research has demonstrated that in legal settings, apologies ...

The “Hidden Judiciary”: An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice

Duke Law Journal (2009)

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich

Administrative law judges attract little scholarly attention, yet they decide a large fraction of all civil disputes. In this Article, ...

Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?

Notre Dame Law Review (2009)

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Andrew J. Wistrich

Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit ...

Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of ...

Duke Law Journal (2009)

Chris Guthrie and Tracey E. George

We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing ...

The "Hidden Judiciary": An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice

Duke Law Journal (2009)

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich

Administrative law judges attract little scholarly attention, yet they decide a large fraction of all civil disputes. In this Article, ...

"Carhart", Constitutional Rights, and the Psychology of Regret

Southern California Law Review (2008)

In "Gonzales v. Carhart", the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. In so doing, the Court used the ...

"The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking

Vanderbilt Law Review (2008)

Tracey E. George and Chris Guthrie

In this Essay--the first in a series of essays designed to reimagine the Supreme Court--we argue that Congress should authorize ...

Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases

Cornell Law Review (2007)

Chris Guthrie and Andrew J. Wistrich

How do judges judge? Do they apply law to facts in a mechanical and deliberative way, as the formalists suggest ...

Nevada Law Journal (2007)

Judging is difficult. This is obviously so in cases where the law is unclear or the facts are uncertain. But ...

Insurers, Illusions of Judgment & Litigation

Cornell Law Faculty Publications (2006)

Chris Guthrie and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Insurers play a critical role in the civil justice system. By providing liability insurance to parties who would otherwise be ...

Anchoring, Information, Expertise, and Negotiation: New Insights from Meta-Analysis

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (2006)

Chris Guthrie and Dan Orr

In this article, we conduct a meta-analysis of studies of simulated negotiations to explore the impact of an initial "anchor," ...

Inside the Bankruptcy Judge's Mind

Boston University Law Review (2006)

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich

Specialization is common in medicine. Doctors become oncologists, radiologists, urologists, or even hernia repair specialists. Specialization is also common among ...

Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information? The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding

University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2005)

Chris Guthrie and Andrew J. Wistrich

Due process requires courts to make decisions based on the evidence before them without regard to information outside of the ...

The Futility of Appeal: Disciplinary Insights into the "Affirmance Effect ...

Florida State University Law Review (2005)

Chris Guthrie and Tracey E. George

In contrast to the Supreme Court, which typically reverses the cases it hears, the United States Courts of Appeals almost ...

Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and ...

Journal of Dispute Resolution (2004)

Seven law school faculty members and one practicing attorney recently developed and taught a wholly new kind of law course ...

Heuristics and Biases at the Bargaining Table

Marquette Law Review (2004)

Chris Guthrie and Russell Korobkin

In this essay, written for a symposium on The Emerging Interdisciplinary Cannon of Negotiation, we examine the role of heuristics ...

Impact Bias: The Impact of the Impact Bias on Negotiation

Marquette Law Review (2004)

Chris Guthrie and David Sally

Induced Litigation

Northwestern University Law Review (2004)

Chris Guthrie and Tracey E. George

If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and ...

Influence: Principles of Influence in Negotiation

Marquette Law Review (2004)

Insights from Cognitive Psychology

Journal of Legal Education (2004)

My goal in this paper is to explore cognitive psychology's place in the dispute resolution field. To do so, I ...

Principles of Influence in Negotiation

Marquette Law Review (2004)

Negotiation is often viewed as an alternative to adjudication. In fact, however, negotiation and adjudication may be more alike than ...

Risk Realization, Emotion, and Policy Making

Missouri Law Review (2004)

In their study of terrorism and SARS, Professor Feigenson and his colleagues report "significant positive correlations between people's risk perceptions ...