Judicial Collegiality: Positive Theories and Empirical Analyses

Friday, November 11, 2011
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
USC Law Faculty Lounge - Room 433
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089

If you wish to attend, RSVP to Christopher Schnieders at cschnieders@law.usc.edu.

For more information, please call (213) 740-5714.

PROGRAM
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Presenters: Morgan Hazelton, Washington University in St. Louis Emerson Tiller, Northwestern University School of Law "Panel Effects in Administrative Law: A Study of Rules, Standards and Judicial Whistleblowing" Discussant: Stefanie Lindquist, University of Texas, School of Law
9:30 am	Presenter: Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School “Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan” Discussant: Nancy Staudt, USC Gould School of Law
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Presenter: Thomas Miles, The University of Chicago Law School "The Mechanisms of Peer Effects in Appellate Decision-making: Evidence from Two Tests" Discussant: Andrew Martin, Washington University in St. Louis
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Presenters: Jonathan Shaub, Northwestern University Law School Rachel Hinkle, Washington University in St. Louis "The Execution of Judicial Discourse: A Positive Political Theory and Empirical Analysis of Strategic Word Choice in District Court Opinions" Discussant: Jed Stiglitz, Stanford University Law School
2:00 pm	Presenter: Eric Talley, University of California, Berkeley School of Law "All in a Row: Producing Information Strategically in Judicial Panels" (co-authored with Matthew Spitzer) Discussant: John De Figueiredo, Duke Law School
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Presenters: Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School Bruce Desmarais, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Standing the Test of Time: The Breadth of Majority Coalitions and the Fate Of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents” Discussant: Sara Benesh, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
4:15 pm	Presenter: Pauline Kim, Washington University School of Law “A Dynamic Model of Doctrinal Choice” (co-authored with Scott Baker) Discussant: Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University
5:30 pm	Conference Ends

THIS CONFERENCE IS CO-ORGANIZED BY:

Mathew McCubbins

Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy &
co-director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

Emerson Tiller

J. Landis Martin Professor of Law and Business at Northwestern University School of Law, USC Law Visiting Professor (2011-12)

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