Shavell, Steven - Econometric Society - 2004
A possible view of the role of an adjudicator is that it is to obtain the information that is needed to apply a well …-articulated legal rule. That is, the task of an adjudicator in a case is to gather and verify the information that is called for to … employ a legal rule, but that once the required information is in hand, the adjudicator's work is done, for the rule then …