Do the Media and/or Academics Influence Judicial Behavior? Natural and Field Experiments on Judicial Recusal

• In Event: Politician and Bureaucrat Behavior

Brief Overview

We use publicly available federal dockets to measure whether a prominent Wall Street Journal investigation into recusal failure in federal district courts and a randomized letter to the judges leads to higher levels of recusal in current cases.

Author

• Dane Thorley, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University