It has been suggested, with growing frequency, that the United States may be losing its...

Courts, like other policymaking institutions, can be rigged. They can be rendered highly responsive to...

It has become almost universal practice for countries to adopt formal constitutions. Little is known...

The notion that “transnational judicial dialogue” is contributing to the globalization of constitutional law has...

There are two senses in which judicial review in Japan has failed. First, the Supreme...

Much of the social science literature on judicial behavior has focused on the impact of...

Judicial review has long been characterized by constitutional scholars as countermajoritarian and antidemocratic. This Article...

The Supreme Court of Japan is widely considered the most conservative constitutional court in the...

Scholars have for decades sought to measure judicial ideology and its impact on judicial behavior....

Globalization – the drastic reduction of barriers to transborder movement and exchange – is a...

In this paper, we employ simple formal models drawn from political science to explain the...

Sovereigns, like individuals, must sometimes make commitments that limit their freedom of action in order...

Previous empirical research has demonstrated that, in a number of contexts, federal appeals court judges...

What do nuclear competition and federal judicial selection share in common? Both involve strategic interactions...

This article seeks to explore why, as Justice Breyer has put it, "[j]udges in different...

This article argues that the expansion of the White House's role in judicial appointments since...

This essay, a shortened version of which will appear in the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of...

This chapter from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research offers an overview and...

Much of the social science literature on judicial behavior has focused on the impact of...

Sovereigns, like individuals, must sometimes make commitments that limit their own freedom of action in...

Previous studies have demonstrated that, in a number of contexts, federal appeals court judges divide...

This paper argues that the expansion of the White House's role in judicial appointments since...

This paper seeks to articulate and explore the emerging phenomenon of generic constitutional law, here...