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Judicial Behavior and Policy: Institutional Rules, Law, and Group Dynamics
Sat, October 2, 2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT), TBASession Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel
Session Description
This panel underscores the complexities of judicial decision-making and the formation of legal outputs through demonstrating that judicial choices and/or legal policy may be a function of institutional rules, jurisprudential regimes, peer influences, and group dynamics/processes. Each paper advances previous knowledge of a select factor by examining a variety of courts and judges, including state supreme courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Individual Presentations
Institutional Foundations of Recusal Behavior in State Supreme Courts - Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Leadership in Judicial Decision-Making - Andrew H. Sidman, CUNY-John Jay College; Maxwell H.H. Mak, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Linguistic Evidence for the Existence and Effect of Jurisprudential Regimes - Matthew Dahl, University of Notre Dame; Matthew E.K. Hall, University of Notre Dame
The Effect of Informal En Bancs on Process and Precedent - Bethany Blackstone, University of North Texas; Micheal W. Giles, Emory University; Susan Navarro Smelcer, Georgia State University