Drawing on neoclassical consumer choice theory, we design a model to study court performance in which a judge is facing a trade-off between judicial speed (time to decision) and verdict length (number of words) given a resource constraint. The model has two main implications. First, the...

Students of EU judicial politics have debated whether the threat of legislative override can influence the behaviour of the European Court of Justice. Yet because of the high political hurdles for the passage of Treaty amendments, Treaty revision has been dismissed as the "nuclear option",...