Our recent report, "Cost of Discretion," reveals that from 2020 to 2022, the pretrial decisions made by New York City's fourteen most carceral judges resulted in an estimated 580 additional people ...

(CN) — Can algorithms improve human decision-making by taking out bias-prone factors like age, race and gender? It’s not a particularly new debate, but it’s one that’s gained renewed attention lately ...

Calls for a "formal" or "enforceable" code of ethics for the Supreme Court imply that no ethics rules or guidelines exist, that Congress has the authority to impose such a code, and that a genuine ...

Image: The Hon. Judge Ralph Artigliere (ret.) using Open AI/DALL-E. Judges and lawyers received a significant gift last week when 11 th Circuit Judge Kevin C. Newsom penned a concurring opinion in a ...

“You use the phrase ‘judicial independence’ in most gatherings, and people think what it means [is] ‘Oh, the judges can do whatever they want,’” said retired Jeremy Fogel. “Well, that is actually not ...

“Without access to these decisions, lawmakers and the public are left with only anecdotal claims and selective narratives, often driven by the loudest opponents of discovery reform. The judicial ...

The United States is in poor health. Life expectancy rates have dropped precipitously, and racial health disparities continue, with white adults living more than five and a half years longer than ...

If there were a year-end list of the worst judicial decisions of 2022, a top spot would surely go to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s orders in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case. Cannon appointed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Judicial deference to administrative agencies is often viewed as a dichotomous choice between full deference and no deference, ignoring ...

The writers are researchers in the Data and Evidence for Justice Reform program at the World Bank. The increasingly bitter partisan battles over Supreme Court nominations reflect the degree of ...