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, o...

• The aim of the survey among legal practitioners and judicial institutions was to gauge the extent to which different forms of video-mediated interpreting are currently employed across different European countries and to elicit information regarding planned uses, as well as the underlying motivations for use on the part of the judicial services. • The survey among legal interpreters was intend...

The influence of decision task and deliberation style on the verdict of the juries. In the Kameda's Deliberation Style Model the emission of verdicts of responsibility when the deliberation style of the juries (elemental/compound) and the type of decision task (disjunctive/conjunctive) are jointly manipulated, is favoured in certain conditions. Given the consequences that these approaches could...

This commentary is intended to contextualise and expand upon Hansjoerg Strohmeyer’s article in this issue of the University of New South Wales Law Journal on post-conflict reconstruction of the judicial system in East Timor.* 1 In this commentary, I provide a brief overview of the history of United Nations (‘UN’) involvement in the governance of post-conflict societies generally, and describe s...

To ensure public trust and confidence, courts must routinely examine the management of their operations and continuously explore improvement opportunities. Although technology can be a catalyst for improving judicial administration, without the requisite planning, organizational capital (e.g., people, process, and system alignment), and evaluation it is unlikely that such initiatives will be su...

The Rivers v. Katz decision substituted judicial review for administrative review of requests for involuntary medication of patients in New York State mental hospitals. This change, prompted by concern for the rights of involuntarily committed patients, did not delay or diminish the use of involuntary medication in a large state hospital. Advantages of judicial review include a better understan...

The inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has contributed to reduced investments, slow growth, and a difficult business environment. The enforcement of civil and commercial claims suffers from excessive delays in court proceedings, resulting in a very large number of pending cases. The Italian authorities have, over the years, taken steps to remove bottlenecks and speed up judicial procee...

This article discusses the problems and potential solutions with the system of judicial appointment in the state of Nebraska. The article focuses on how improving public awareness about the existing system, its goals, and its current weaknesses, and implementing steps to address those weaknesses, will help to keep everyone moving toward the best possible system. While changing attitudes and int...