It is widely assumed that the Supreme Court of the United States has established supremacy over contested constitutional questions, with the power to make final determinations of constitutional meaning. Since the 1960s, most scholars have assumed that legislatures and courts are engaged in a...

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...

This paper aims to explain amendments to the Court Organization Law in Taiwan with a revised insurance theory. With the effort of the Prosecutors Reform Association (PRA) and the Judicial Reform Foundation (JRF), significant changes were made to the Court Organization Law in 2006. The...

In this study, I seek evaluate which features of a judiciary impact economic development. Specifically, I examine the relative effects of judicial review and judicial independence. Previous studies of the judiciary's effect have found that judicial independence significantly impacts economic...