Do judges make decisions that are truly impartial? A wide range of experimental and field
studies reveal that several extralegal factors influence judicial decision making …

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new
book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and …

Justice is not blind. Researchers have found that black defendants fare worse in court than
do their white counterparts. In a study of bail-setting in Connecticut, for example, Ian Ayres …

How dojudgesjudge? The answer to this seemingly simple question has proved surprisingly
elusive. The two venerable models of judging-the formalist and realist models-offer …

Interpretation differs from construction in that the former" is the act of finding out the true
sense of any form of words; that is, the sense which their author intended to convey; and of …

Eighty years ago the great American trial lawyer Clarence Darrow observed that:" Jurymen
seldom convict a person they like, or acquit one that they dislike. The main work of a trial …

This article tests a broad range of cognitive biases branching out from prospect theory in the
context of public policy and management. Results illuminate systematic deviations from …

Objective: We conducted a meta-analysis to examine whether numeric decision-making in
law is susceptible to the effect of (possibly arbitrary) values present in the decision contexts …

Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a
judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic …

Legal scholarship on racial discrimination has turned to the science of implicit social
cognition to explain how the human mind automatically manifests biases against disfavored …