Politics, Identity, and Class Certification on the U.S. Courts of Appeals

• In Event: Have's and Have-Nots: Courts and Inequality

Brief Overview

This article presents the results of the first empirical analysis of how Court of Appeals judges' party, gender, and race influence precedential lawmaking on class certification under Rule 23.

Authors

• Sean Farhang, University of California-Berkeley

• Stephen Burbank, University of Pennsylvania Law School