All Articles tagged Study

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  WHEN A PLEA IS NO BARGAIN AT ALL: COMPARING SENTENCING OUTCOMES FOR MASSACHUSETTS DEFENDANTS IN NON-SEXUAL AND SEXUAL CRIMES
  Annabelle Frazier

  This study addresses gaps in research relating to sexual and violent crime prosecution by following up on Abrams’s conclusion that plea-bargaining does not result in sentence reductions for defendants.

• General
  December 12, 2018 EDT
  CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CASE FOR BOARD GENDER DIVERSITY: EVIDENCE FROM DELAWARE CASES
  Akshaya Kamalnath

  This article examines whether there is a corporate governance case for board gender diversity.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2017 EDT
  WHERE SCIENCE CONFLICTS WITH COMMON SENSE: EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION REFORM IN MASSACHUSETTS
  Ralph D. GantsErik N. Doughty

  This essay follows eyewitness identification reform in Massachusetts.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  November 11, 2011 EDT
  CHIEF JUSTICE MARGARET MARSHALL: A LIFETIME DEVOTED TO DEFENDING LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
  Jessie R. Cardinale

  This paper examines Chief Justice Marshall‘s voting trends during her tenure as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (October 1999 to November 2010).

• State Constitutional Commentary
  November 11, 2011 EDT
  CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHA TERNUS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE TENURE OF IOWA’S FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE
  Jessie R. Cardinale

  This paper examines Ternus’ voting trends during her time as Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, from September 2006 to December 2010.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  November 11, 2011 EDT
  CHIEF JUSTICE JEAN HOEFER TOAL OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT: VOTING PATTERNSIN DIVIDEDCRIMINAL CASES
  Nisa Khan

  This study illustrates Chief Justice Toal‘s voting approach in divided criminal cases, during her eleven year tenure as Chief Justice, in which she sided with the prosecution.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  NEW YORK APPEALS: AN EVOLVING TRADITION
  Jessica R. Vigars

  This paper analyzes the dissents and dissenting justices of New York State's First Department.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  QUALITY IN NUMBERS? THE DYNAMICS OF DECISION-MAKING IN THE SECOND DEPARTMENT
  Kristopher Ostrander

  This study examines the the divided decision of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, over the ten-year period beginning January 1, 2000 and ending October 1, 2010.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF DISSENT AT THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD DEPARTMENT
  Christopher J. Stevens

  This study takes an empirical look at the divided opinions of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, over the last ten years.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE VINDICATED DISSENTS OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION, FOURTH DEPARTMENT, FROM 2000 TO 2010
  Daniel Gross

  This study presents an empirical point of view with respect to the voting behavior of the justices of the Fourth Department.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  THE TRUTH BEHIND “FINAL AND BINDING” ARBITRATION: A STUDY OF VACATED ARBITRATION AWARDS IN THE NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION
  Monica R. Skanes

  This comment outlines the strict federal and state standards for vacating arbitration awards.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT NEW YORK CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE IN CHIEF JUDGE KAYE’S JUDICIAL OPINIONS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
  Gordon Eddy

  This article aims to objectively determine what the effects have been of Judge Kaye’s conceded efforts to advance independent state constitutional decision-making since becoming Chief Judge in 1993.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON: THE VOTING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT IN NON-UNANIMOUS CRIMINAL CASES FROM 2001–2008
  Kevin Blackwell

  This study demonstrates trends in how the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided non-unanimous or divided criminal cases over an eight-year period.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  IS THE NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS STILL “FRIENDLESS?” AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF AMICUS CURIAE PARTICIPATION
  Matthew Laroche

  This author conducted an empirical study of amicus curiae participation in the Court of Appeals over the last twenty years.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
  James W. Barr

  This high court study considers the effect the election of Justice Eakin and the resulting Republican majority had on the percentage of criminal appeals decided in favor of the prosecution.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  THE INDIANA SUPREME COURT’S VOTING PATTERNS IN CRIMINAL DECISIONS
  Jason A. Cherna

  This high court study focuses on the Indiana Supreme Court’s divided criminal decisions, specifically those non-unanimous criminal decisions rendered between September 1, 2001 and August 31, 2006.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  APPELLATE DIVISION ON APPEAL: THE JUSTICES’ RATES OF AGREEMENT, REJECTION, AND VINDICATION BY THE COURT OF APPEALS
  Vincent Martin Bonventre

  This study examines every non-unanimous decision the NYS Appellate Division rendered between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005, reviewed on appeal by the Court of Appeals by June 2006.