Widespread vote buying has long marred Taiwan's elections and this malpractice has been an issue of great concern to many on the island. This study aims at examining the decisions of Taiwan's three-tiered court system -- district, high, and Supreme Court -- regarding vote-buying litigation. In...

Although federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases, once a petition is filed the matter is referred to the Bankruptcy Court, an Article One court of limited jurisdiction and limited judicial independence. Among proceedings the Bankruptcy court can adjudicate are core...

This study invokes the common space scores of executives and senators to generate a number of alternative preference point positions for U.S. District Court judges (1901-2006). Tests of these continuous measures against a null case fact specification suggest that the legal model always proves an...

Widespread vote buying has long marred Taiwan's elections and this malpractice has been an issue of great concern to many on the island. This study aims at examining the decisions of Taiwan's three-tiered court system - district, high, and Supreme Court - regarding vote-buying litigation. In...

Adversarial legalism ("AL"), as Professor Robert Kagan argues, is the American way of law. It is caused by a mismatch between sweeping political demands and a fragmented government system, and it is entrenched by a legal culture that makes vigorous use of existing litigation mechanisms. This...