Sunstein on the Chicago Judges Project

Cass Sunstein and a team of faculty and students in the Chicago Judges Project are hard at work analyzing such questions as whether votes of federal judges are predictable from their ideology. In this short interview from the Research at Chicago series, Cass Sunstein discusses judicial behavior on federal courts, examining considerable data on how appointees have voted, and considers whether judges are affected by their colleagues. This interview is available in both audio and video versions. For instructions, click here.

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[privacy]

Haven't political scientists produced research on these questions for the past 40 years? It's pathetic that the Chicago project is treated as some kind of novel research. For goodness sakes, the political science journals are now available on electronic databases....

[chuck]

I was unable to make the pop-up windows functional on all browsers, so I have fallen back on a simpler design. My aim, as before, has been to tighten connections between comments and the posts to which they pertain, and to provide a clearer path of navigation through the posts themselves.

[alan]

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