Formal Theory

Courting Controversy: Reasons for Judicial Ideologues to Moderate
Some accounts of US Supreme Court decisions like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization paint Chief Justice John Roberts as …
JBrandon Duck-Mayr
Feb 14, 2023
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Political Competition and Judicial Independence: How Courts Fill the Void When Legislatures Are Ineffective
What effect does political competition have in generating de facto judicial independence? We argue that competition in a legislature …
Joshua Boston, David Carlson, JBrandon Duck-Mayr, Greg Sasso
Nov 2, 2022
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Explaining legal inconsistency
Judges, scholars, and commentators decry inconsistent areas of judicially created policy. This could hurt courts’ policy making …
JBrandon Duck-Mayr
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