The Oxford handbook of comparative judicial behaviour / edited by Lee Epstein, Gunnar Grendstad, Urska Sadl, and Keren Weinshall.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

1st edition

202440

Judicial process.

Comparative law.

Part 1: Fundamentals

1. Introduction to the study of comparative judicial behaviour

2. Legal traditions and their relation to judicial behaviour

3. Models of constitutional review

4. The global expansion of judicial power

5. Transcending the domestic-international divide

Part 2: Approaches to judging

6. Legalism and professional norms

7. Attitudinal judging: partisanship and ideology

8. Backgrounds, attributes, and identities

9. Strategic analysis

10. How personal motivations affect judges' decisions

11. Research on cognitive shortcomings in comparative judicial behaviour

Part 3: Data, methods, and technologies

12. Observational databases

13. Experiments

14. Network analysis for the comparative study of judicial behaviour

15. Studying judicial behaviour with text analysis

16. Measuring political preferences

Part 4: Staffing the courts

17. Selecting judges

18. Judicial elections and judicial behaviour

19. Judicial tenure and retirements

20. Law clerks

Part 5: Advocacy, litigation, and appellate review

21. Lawyering in the private sector

22. Agendas, decisions, and autonomy: how government lawyers shape judicial behaviour

23. Agenda setting

24. The form and function of oral arguments in high courts

Part 6: Opinions

25. Dissents and other separate opinions

26. Studying judicial citations and citation data

27. Judge language choices

Part 7: Relations within, between, and among courts

28. Leadership in courts

29. Panel effects on courts around the world

30. Referrals

31. Judge networks

32. Hierarchies of justice

Part 8: Judicial independence

33. Threats to judicial independence

34. Developing judicial independence

35. Conceptualizing and measuring judicial independence

Part 9: Courts and society

36. Public opinion and legitimacy

37. Courts and transitional justice

38. Compliance with judicial decisions

39. Courts as agents of change

Part 10: On the frontiers of comparative judicial behaviour

40. The conceptual challenge to measuring ideology

41. Research communities and the collective investment in data infrastructure

42. Artificial intelligence and judging.

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of U.S. scholars—and mostly political scientists at that—now, researchers throughout the world, drawing on history, economics, law, and psychology, are illuminating how and why judges make the choices they do and what effect those choices have on society. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour consists of ten sections, each devoted to important subfields: fundamentals—providing overviews designed to identify common trends in courts worldwide; approaches to judging; data, methods, and technologies; staffing the courts; advocacy, litigation, and appellate review; opinions; relations within, between, and among courts; judicial independence; court and society; and frontiers of comparative judicial behaviour—dedicated to expanding on opportunities for advancement. Rather than focusing on particular courts, countries, or regions, the organization of the individual chapters is topical. Each chapter explores an important topic-critically evaluating the state of that topic and identifying opportunities for future work. While the forty-two chapters share a common interest in explaining the causes and effects of judicial choices, the range of approaches to comparative research is wide, inclusive, and interdisciplinary, from contrasts and similarities to sophisticated research agendas reflecting the emerging field of judicial behaviour around the world. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780192898579

xxii, 1005 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm