Judge Nudges in the Shadow of Judge Shoves: A Field Experiment on Judicial Recusal

• In Event: Legitimacy

Brief Overview

We utilize a randomized field experiment in which roughly half of all active US federal district court judges were sent a letter that highlighted past recusal failures and informed them of future audits. We measure subsequent judicial recusals.

Author

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