Litigants, Lawyers, and Doctrinal Development

• In Event: Courts and Other Actors

Brief Overview

How does creative lawyering affect doctrinal development? We present a formal model about how plaintiffs change their framing of cases depending on their own circumstances and on their expectations of judges’ openness to new arguments.

Authors

• Deborah Beim, University of Michigan

• Sepehr Shahshahani, Fordham University