Examining the efficiency of the U.S. courts of appeals: Pathologies and prescriptions

The Duration of Judicial Deliberation: Evidence from Belgium

“…We find no statistically significant effect of judge's gender 19 and age on the duration of judicial deliberation. These results resonate with the findings of a subset of the empirical literature that has likewise not found an effect of judge's gender (e.g., Gruhl et al 1981, Davis et al 1993, Choi et al 2011, Dimitrova-Grajzl et al 2012b or age (e.g., Christensen andSzmer 2012, Schneider 2005) on adjudicatory outcomes.…”

“…For example, promotion to a higher court, which results in a salary increase, increases lifetime earnings of an older judge by a smaller amount than for a younger judge; hence, an older judge might be less concerned about promotion and consequently have lower productivity than a younger judge (see, e.g., Choi et al 2012, Schneider 2005. Another reason for a negative relationship between age and productivity is the burnout effect (Teitelbaum 2006, Christensen andSzmer 2012). Accordingly, we hypothesize (Hypothesis 11) that, all else equal, cases adjudicated by older judges entail longer judicial deliberation than cases adjudicated by younger judges.…”

Understanding the Time to Court Case Resolution: A Competing Risks Analysis Using Belgian Data

“…In an attempt to advance our understanding of the factors influencing court disposition times, only a limited number of existing studies have been able to utilize court case-level data. Furthermore, case-level datasets utilized thus far have been either relatively small (Grembi andGaroupa 2013, Bielen et al 2015) or comparatively scarce in terms of information about case characteristics and the procedural aspects of case resolution (Eisenberg and Farber 1997, Deffains and Doriat 1999, Heise 2000, Di Vita 2012b, Christensen and Szmer 2012, Somaya 2016. 2 In this paper, we contribute to the literature on the determinants of the time to court case resolution by exploring a novel case-level dataset on a subset of civil disputes collected from a major court in Belgium, a EU member state where the slow pace of justice has been a persistent policy concern (High Council of Justice 2012).…”

“…Specifically, in addition to examining the role of a wide range of micro-level case characteristics, some of which have been found to be empirically important in prior studies on the timing of civil case resolution (e.g., Eisenberg and Farber 1997, Heise 2000, Christensen and Szmer 2012, Grembi and Garoupa 2013, Bielen et al 2015, we are able to explore the role of thus far unexplored procedural events such as the completion of hearings, exchange of pleadings, and availability of expert reports. Furthermore, our paper is the first to examine whether, and if so how, judge characteristics matter for the timing of alternative modes of court case resolution.…”

Inovação, recursos e desempenho em tribunais do trabalho

“…Dependência/resultados Casos completos/resolvidos (Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004;Buscaglia & Ulen, 1997;Deyneli, 2012;Dimitrova-Grajzl et al, 2012;Kittelsen & Førsund, 1992;Lewin et al, 1982;Mitsopoulos & Pelagidis, 2007;Pedraja-Chaparro & Salinas-Jimenez, 1996;Tulkens, 1993;Yeung & Azevedo, 2011) Resolução de sentenças (Rosales-López, 2008) Tempo de duração de processo (Abramo, 2010;Christensen & Szmer, 2012) Citações e opiniões publicadas (Anderson IV, 2011;Choi et al, 2013;Ramseyer, 2012;Smyth & Bhattacharia, 2003) Independência/recursos (demanda) Casos pendentes (Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004;Lewin et al, 1982) Casos distribuídos (Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004) Assunto (tipo/ramo do processo) (Abramo, 2010;Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004;Costa et al, 2006;Kittelsen & Førsund, 1992 (Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004;Dimitrova-Grajzl et al, 2012;Lewin et al, 1982;Ramseyer, 2012;Rosales-López, 2008); (ii) dados em painel (Beenstock & Haitovsky, 2004;Choi et al, 2013;Christensen & Szmer, 2012;Dimitrova-Grajzl et al, 2012;Mitsopoulos & Pelagidis, 2007;Ramseyer, 2012); (iii) corte transversal (Kittelsen & Førsund, 1992;Lewin et a...…”