Columbia Law Review

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  • Nancy C. Staudt
  • Tyler J. VanderWeele
چکیده

One notable difference between early empirical legal scholarship and the more recent sophisticated contributions to the literature is scholars’ goal of identifying cause and effect relationships. Professors Cox and Miles’s recent study of judicial decisionmaking provides a terrific example of this new-generation work. The authors investigate whether personal attributes such as ideology, race, or gender cause judges to favor (or disfavor) plaintiffs’ claims under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The study is a valuable contribution to the emerging body of empirical scholarship exploring causal relationships, and to the work on judicial decisionmaking and voting rights litigation in particular.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009