Talking Judges
16 Pages Posted: 8 Apr 2010
Date Written: April 7, 2010
Abstract
What kinds of empirical questions about themselves and their colleagues on the bench are judges interested in asking? This was the topic of a recent conference at the Duke Law School. Our essay reflects on the ways in which the judges at this conference and at a prior one talked about the empirical study of their community. To put it mildly, most of the judges were not fans of the empirical research. Our interest in this essay is not, however, in responding to the judicial criticisms. Rather it is in drawing insights about how judges view themselves and their profession from how they discussed the research at the conference.
Keywords: judicial performance, judges, courts, empirical research, judicial behavior
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