John Szmer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.