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The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall
The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall
Duke Law Journal
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Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist
Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist
Duke Law Journal
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
Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?, Laura Denvir Stith
Duke Law Journal
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Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner
Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner
Duke Law Journal
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 …