Collegiality in Context? ——Evidence from Chinese Courts

• In Event: Courts in the Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

When Chinese judges compose panels with more familiar colleagues, they tend to rule in favor of the government, spend less time trying cases, and write shorter reasonings. The legal environment and the judge’s experience moderate the above phenomenon

Authors

• Zhaoyang Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Xiaohong Yu, Tsinghua University