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

• In Event: Understanding the U.S. Courts of Appeals

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

• Stephen Burbank, University of Pennsylvania Law School

• Sean Farhang, University of California-Berkeley