Extraneous factors in judicial decisions

Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the dec...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2011-04, Vol.108 (17), p.6889-6892
Main Authors: Danziger, Shai, Levav, Jonathan, Avnaim-Pesso, Liora
Format: Article
Language:English
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Attorneys
Breakfasts
Choice Behavior
Cognition
Court decisions
Criminal offenses
Criminal punishment
Decision making
Ethnicity
Feeding Behavior
Female
Humans
Judges
Judges & magistrates
Judicial rulings
Jurisprudence
Justice
Male
Mental Fatigue
Parole
Parole boards
politics
Prisons
social factors
social justice
Social Sciences
Time Factors
Workload
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