Law Administrative / Constitutional Law

Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts: A Cross-Country Examination of Institutional Constraints on Judges

Edited by Benjamin Alarie · Andrew J. Green
Oxford University Press USA September 2017

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ISBN-13
9780199397594
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication
September 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

Empirical literature in this area increasingly analyzes this complex collection of factors in isolation, when a larger sample size of comparative institutional contexts can help assess the impact of the procedures, norms, and rules on key institutional decisions, such as how appeals are decided.

Four basic institutional questions from a comparative perspective help address these studies regardless of institutional context or government framework. Who decides, or how is a justice appointed? How does an appeal reach the court; what processes occur? Who is before the court, or how do the characteristics of the litigants and third parties affect judicial decision-making? How does the court decide the appeal, or what institutional norms and strategic behaviors do the judges perform to obtain their preferred outcome?

This book explains how the answers to these institutional questions largely determine the influence of political preferences of individual judges and the degree of cooperation among judges at a given point in time. The authors apply these four fundamental institutional questions to empirical work on the Supreme Courts of the US, UK, Canada, India, and the High Court of Australia.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. COMMITMENT AND COOPERATION ON HIGH COURTS
2. HOW DO JUDGES DECIDE?
3. PLANTING THE SEED: CHOOSING HIGH COURT JUDGES
4. WHO HEARS THE PARTICULAR APPEAL?
5. DO JUDGES CARE ABOUT OTHERS?
6. SLIPPING THROUGH THE SCREEN: HOW DO COURTS CHOOSE THE CASES
THEY HEAR?
7. THE INFLUENCE OF THE PARTIES ON JUDGES: ACCURACY OR AFFILIATION
8. NORMS, LEADERSHIP AND CONSENSUS
9. CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
1. THE DATA
2. INFLUENCES ON JUDGE'S VOTES
3. DISSENT ANALYSIS
INDEX

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