We ask whether the widely used direction of decision and direction of vote variables in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database (USSCJD) are contaminated by confirmation bias, or have been affected by expectations about the likely effects of judicial preferences on case outcomes. Using a sample of generally comparable cases, we find evidence that the assignment of issue codes to these...

Thanks to the recent progresses in judicial proceedings management, especially related to the introduction of audio/video recording systems, semantic retrieval has now become a realistic key challenge. In this context emotion recognition engine, through the analysis of vocal signature of actors involved in judicial proceedings, could provide useful annotations for semantic retrieval of multimed...

In March 2004, the National Assembly of South Korea impeached President Roh Moo-hyun and brought about an immediate suspension of Roh's presidency. Two months later, the Constitutional Court of Korea restored the status quo by dismissing the impeachment and reinstating the President. This episode marks the first time in the history of modern constitutionalism that a president impeached by a leg...

Abstract As the gatekeeper of international law, CJEU determines effects not only agreements but also decisions compliance review bodies. This article analyses Court's engagement with rulings WTO dispute settlement bodies (DSB) and findings Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC). These case studies demonstrate varied toolkit used by to forge relationships external regimes, while maintain...

Professor Scott Baker was kind enough to present his empirical research on the relationship between judicial salary and judicial quality1 to the Law and Economics Workshop run by Professor Keith Hylton2 and me last fall and I am honored to be able to comment on it today. It is part of a growing body of literature in law that tries to shed light on important issues through statistical analysis. ...

The authors postulate that judicial intervention in pregnancy is one of the means by which control is legally exercised on women's bodies and lives. Despite the recommendations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, which rejected proposals for intervention, and the fact that the movement to recognize fetal "rights" has been stronger in the United States than in Canada, the a...

OBJECTIVE To measure the general and work related stress, depression and anxiety in Magistrates (Judges and District Attorneys) of Lima Judicial District. MATERIAL AND METHODS We carried out a transversal and descriptive study. A population of 1137 magistrates from the Lima Jurisdictional District of the Judicial System, was randomly sampled by a strata representing every agency of the Judici...

The conventional wisdom among many legal scholars is that judicial independence can best be achieved with an appointive judiciary; judicial elections turn judges into politicians, threatening judicial autonomy. Yet the original supporters of judicial elections successfully eliminated the appointive systems of many states by arguing that judges who owed their jobs to politicians could never be t...