International criminal tribunals, like any criminal court, have been faced with offences against the administration of justice, such as contempt of court. The power of the UN ad hoc Tribunals to punish these offences has raised problematic issues mainly concerning respect for the principle of...

We intend in this project to show that the severity of felony sentences imposed by elected trial court judges in the state of Washington is highest in court districts where constituents are disposed toward a punitive approach to combating crime and lowest in districts favoring more leniency in...

The Framers of the Constitution thought so highly of the right to trial by jury that they put it in the body of that document. Likewise, James Madison and the First Congress mentioned it twice in the Bill of Rights for much the same reason. Trial by jury to them meant a delicate and important...

Judicial review cannot serve as an effective check on administrative action unless aggrieved applicants have a real way to access the courts to obtain relief. In an admirable, albeit belated move, significant amendments were made to the Singapore Rules of Court to remove the procedural...

Commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court decision in Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., and reversing two decisions from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Ortiz, a 7-2 decision, the Court reversed the Fifth Circuit's affirmation of a Rule 23(b)(1)(B) mandatory global settlement of asbestos...

This article presents a strategic model of liability and litigation under court errors. Our framework allows for endogenous choice of level of care and endogenous likelihood of filing and disputes. We derive sufficient conditions for a unique universally divine mixed-strategy perfect Bayesian...

We present a positive political theory of criminal sentencing and test it using data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, judges can use offense-level adjustments (fact-based decision making) to lengthen or shorten the Guidelines' presumptive sentences....

Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in this area. In this paper we report the first estimates of the causal effects of misdemeanor...

Although there exists a large literature analyzing whether an individual's peers have an impact on that individual's own behavior and subsequent outcomes, there is paucity of research on whether peers influence a person's decisions and judgments regarding a third party. We investigate whether...