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John Szmer
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Publications - 25
Citations - 407
John Szmer is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Majority opinion. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications receiving 362 citations.
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Examining the efficiency of the U.S. courts of appeals: Pathologies and prescriptions
Robert K. Christensen,John Szmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this analysis of a sample of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions from 1971 to 1996, a variety of potential causes of inefficiency, or pathologies, are examined before suggesting a series of prescriptions.
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Does the Lawyer Matter? Influencing Outcomes on the Supreme Court of Canada
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of lawyer capability on the decisionmaking of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) and found that the first two variables have a statistically significant and positive relationship with the SCC's decisions in non-reference-question cases from 1988 to 2000.
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Have We Come a Long Way, Baby? The Influence of Attorney Gender on Supreme Court Decision Making
TL;DR: This article found that women attorneys are less likely to receive a favorable vote by a justice than are the male counsel they oppose and that conservative justices are more likely than their liberal counterparts to vote against litigants represented by female counsel at oral argument.
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Race and Gender Bias in Three Administrative Contexts: Impact on Work Assignments in State Supreme Courts
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of three distinct administrative settings on race, gender, and other biases in the workload assignments of state supreme court justices were compared, and it was found that certain administrative processes serve better than others to suppress race and gender biases.
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Examining the Effects of Information, Attorney Capability, and Amicus Participation on U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making:
John Szmer,Martha Humphries Ginn +1 more
TL;DR: A significant amount of scholarship has examined the impact of information on Supreme Court decision making as mentioned in this paper, focusing on litigators or amicus curiae, and a number of papers have examined the role of information in decision making.