Title | Stare Decisis and Judicial Log-Rolls: A Gains-from-Trade Model |
Publication Type | Unpublished |
Authors | Cameron C, Kornhauser L, Parameswaran G |
Abstract | The practice of horizontal stare decisis requires that judges occasionally decide cases ‘incorrectly’. What sustains this practice? Given a heterogeneous bench, we show that the increasing differences in dispositional value property of preferences generates gains when judges trade dispositions over the case space. These gains are fully realized by |
URL | https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/ccameron/files/stare_decisis_and_judicial_log_rolls_final_rand.pdf |