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Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner Apr 2009

Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner

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Judges and courts get evaluated and ranked in a variety of contexts. The President implicitly ranks lower-court judges when he picks some rather than others to be promoted within the federal judiciary. The ABA and other organizations evaluate and rank these same judges. For the state courts, governors and legislatures do similar rankings and evaluations, as do interest groups. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, produces an annual ranking of the state courts that is based on surveys of business lawyers. These various rankings and evaluations are often made on the basis of subjective information and opaque criteria. The …


The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall Apr 2009

The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall

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Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist Apr 2009

Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist

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The evaluation of judges, especially circuit court judges, has commanded increased attention, with the quantitative analyses of Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati. However, the proper dimensions for the evaluation of judges remains much disputed. Critics have challenged Choi & Gulati's scales for measuring judicial quality but have offered little that is positive that would improve measurement. The critics make philosophical challenges to whether the measures truly capture the qualities of judging we should desire, but they offer no measurement tools to improve on Choi and Gulati. We hope to advance the theoretical and empirical evaluation by incorporating different scales for …


Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?, Laura Denvir Stith Apr 2009

Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?, Laura Denvir Stith

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Remarks Of The Chief Justice: My Life In The Law Series, William H. Rehnquist Feb 2003

Remarks Of The Chief Justice: My Life In The Law Series, William H. Rehnquist

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Keeping Mud Off The Bench: The First Amendment And Regulation Of Candidates’ False Or Misleading Statements In Judicial Elections, Adam R. Long Nov 2001

Keeping Mud Off The Bench: The First Amendment And Regulation Of Candidates’ False Or Misleading Statements In Judicial Elections, Adam R. Long

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Gerald Bard Tjoflat, William H. Rehnquist Mar 1995

Gerald Bard Tjoflat, William H. Rehnquist

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The Use And Abuse Of Humanistic Theory In Law: Reexamining The Assumptions Of Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship, Charles W. Collier Oct 1991

The Use And Abuse Of Humanistic Theory In Law: Reexamining The Assumptions Of Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship, Charles W. Collier

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Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.: New Perspective On His Nomination To The Supreme Court, Stephen L. Wasby, Joel B. Grossman Feb 1990

Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.: New Perspective On His Nomination To The Supreme Court, Stephen L. Wasby, Joel B. Grossman

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Stump V. Sparkman And The History Of Judicial Immunity, J. Randolph Block Nov 1980

Stump V. Sparkman And The History Of Judicial Immunity, J. Randolph Block

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