We introduce a new method to measure the ideology of state supreme court justices using campaign finance records. In …

judges across the federal judicial hierarchy. Second, CBI scores can capture temporal changes in ideology. Third, CBI scores …We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring behavior. Specifically, we utilize the ideology … of the law clerks hired by federal judges to estimate the ideology of the judges themselves. These Clerk-Based Ideology …

This paper examines the effect of judicial ideology on the selection and outcome of telecommunications regulatory cases … versa. The effect of judicial ideology on case election is larger than the effect of judicial ideology on case outcomes …

litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk … based on industry membership and firm characteristics. Firms in liberal circuits (the third quartile in ideology) are 33 … ideology). This result is stronger after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Tellabs case. We next show that the effect of …

This paper examines the effect of judicial ideology on the selection and outcome of telecommunications regulatory cases … ideology on case selection is larger than the effect of judicial ideology on case outcomes. Finally, the paper provides initial …