In this article, we consider whether personal relationships can affect the way that judges decide cases. To do so, we leverage the natural experiment of a child’s gender to identify the effect of having daughters on the votes of judges. Using new data on thefamilylivesofU.S.CourtsofAppealsjudges,wefindthat,conditionalonthenumberofchildrenajudgehas,judgeswith daughtersconsistentlyvoteinamorefeministfashionongenderissuesthanjudgeswhohaveonlysons.Thisresultsurvivesa number of robustness tests and appears to be driven primarily by Republican judges. More broadly, this result demonstrates that personal experiences influence how judges make decisions, and this is the first article to show that empathy may indeed be a component in how judges decide cases.

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Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?

Everyday life as an intelligence test: Effects of intelligence and intelligence context

Preface ix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. The Measure of Law: Estimating Preferences across Institutions and Time 17 Part I. Legal Value Constraints Chapter3. Disentangling Law and Policy Preferences 47 Chapter 4. Law Matters 64 Chapter 5. Causes and Consequences of Diverse Legal Values 80 Part II. Political Constraints Chapter 6. Separation of Powers and the Strategic Constraint 95 Chapter 7. Signals from the Executive 121 Chapter 8. Conclusion 140 Appendix. Statistical Details 156 Notes 175 References 185 Index 203

The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make

Since the Civil War, historians have tried to understand why eleven southern states seceded from the Union to form a new nation, the Confederate States of America. What compelled the South to favor disunion over union? While enduring stereotypes perpetuated by the Myth of the Lost Cause cast most southerners of the antebellum era as ardent secessionists, not all southerners favored disunion. In addition, not all states were enthusiastic about the prospects of leaving one Union only to join another. Secession and disunion have helped shape the identity of the imagined South, but many Georgians opposed secession. This dissertation examines the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne (1790-1867), a staunch Unionist from Savannah, Georgia. Wayne remained on the U.S. Supreme Court during the American Civil War, and this study explores why he remained loyal to the Union when his home state joined the Confederacy. Examining the nature of Wayne’s Unionism opens many avenues of inquiry into the nature of Georgia’s attitudes toward union and disunion in the antebellum era. By exploring the political, economic and social dimensions of Georgia Unionism and long opposition to secession, this work will add to the growing list of studies of southern Unionists. INDEX WORDS: James Moore Wayne, Unionism, Disunion, Secession, American South, Savannah, Georgia, Supreme Court of the United States, Civil War, Antebellum Georgia “OUR GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT”: JAMES MOORE WAYNE AND GEORGIA UNIONISM

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Our Good and Faithful Servant: James Moore Wayne and Georgia Unionism

OF DISSERTATION SAVE OUR REPUBLIC: BATTLING JOHN BIRCH IN CALIFORNIA’S CONSERVATIVE CRADLE Previous accounts of the development of the New American Right have demonstrated the popularity and resonance of the ideology in Southern California. However, these studies have not shown how contention surrounded conservatism’s ascendancy even in regions where it found eager disciples. “Save Our Republic” uses one conservative Southern California community as a vehicle to better understand the foundations of a wider movement and argues the growth of conservatism was not nearly as smooth as earlier studies have suggested. Santa Barbara, California, experienced a much more contentious introduction to the same conservative elements and exemplifies the larger ideological clash that occurred nationwide during the late 1950s and early 1960s between “establishment,” moderate Republicans and the party’s right flank. In California’s cradle of conservatism, the ideology’s birth was not an easy one. Santa Barbara should have provided a bonanza of support for the John Birch Society, a staunchly anticommunist organization founded in 1958 by retired businessman Robert H.W. Welch. Instead, its presence there in the early 1960s divided the city and inspired the sort of suspicion that ultimately hobbled the group’s reputation nationally. Rather than thriving in the city, the JBS impaled itself in a series of self-inflicted wounds that only worsened the effect these characterizations had on the group’s national reputation. Disseminated to a nationwide audience by local newspaper publisher Thomas M. Storke, who declared his intention to banish the organization from the city, the events that occurred in Santa Barbara throughout 1961 alerted other cities of the potential disruption the JBS could inspire in their communities. The JBS would forever bear the battle scars it earned in Santa Barbara. “Save Our Republic” argues the events in Santa Barbara exemplify the more pronounced political battle that was occurring throughout the nation in the 1960s as conservatives grappled to determine the bounds of their ideology. The threat from the right that caused so much handwringing in the halls of conservative power had an equally unsettling effect in the city’s parlors, churches, schoolhouses and newsrooms.

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Jeffrey Toobin

Papers

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court

A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President

Too close to call : the thirty-six-day battle to decide the 2000 election

The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson