settlement versus trial judgment. Exploiting the de facto random assignment of cases to serving judges within the court …'s chambers, we further find that judge characteristics matter for time to trial judgment, but not for time to settlement …

Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of … settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to … study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages and features of the litigation process. Using competing risk …

substantial part of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) caseload. (Shareholders’ reflective loss is incurred as a result …