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How Judges Judge: Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making book cover

1st Edition

How Judges Judge Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making

By Brian M. Barry Copyright 2021
312 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

312 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

312 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge
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A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial... Read more

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Psychology of Judicial Decision-Making

3. Judges’ Professional Motivations and Judicial Decision-Making

4. Judges’ Characteristics and their Effects on Judicial Decision-Making

5. Litigants’ Characteristics and their Effects on Judicial Decision-Making

6. Judicial Decision-Making in an Institutional Context: In-Court Influences

7. Judicial Decision-Making in an Institutional Context: Beyond-Court Influences

8. The Future of Judging

Biography

Brian M. Barry is a lecturer in law at TU Dublin, Ireland. He completed his doctorate in Trinity College Dublin's School of Law in 2013 having graduated from there with an LLB in 2009. He has undertaken visiting scholarships in the University of Toronto and Columbia University and is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland.

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