Reasoning on the Threshold: Testing the Separability of Preferences in Legal Decision Making.

One hundred fifteen law students were given a mock brief with identical legal arguments on both sides of a standing dispute in litigation involving restrictions on political expression of public employees. The content of the expression at issue (pro-choice vs. pro-life) and the jurisdiction where th...

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Published in:	Journal of Politics Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 308 - 322
Main Author:	Braman, Eileen
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press May 2006
Subjects:	Human behavior Judges Judicial process United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost