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An Endogenous ‘Refugee Crisis’: Exploring Frame Drain and Emerging Conflicts in Migration Politics

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Migration governance in Europe is shaped by contesting frames that reflect deeper tensions between security, humanitarianism and sovereignty. This article traces how these frames evolve over time and how the so‐called refugee ‘crisis’ reconfigures framing dynamics and actor relations between 2000 and 2020. Rather than treating the crisis as an
Ece Özlem Atikcan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
wiley   +1 more source

Randomly Albright: The End of Judge Shopping in the Western District of Texas?

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences.
Christian Helmers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra‐legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff‐side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case rests on conflicting expert witness testimony.
Adam Callister   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health and Care Denial in Transgender Youth. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA Psychiatry
Eckstrand KL   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does context matter in juvenile court intake? Findings from a rural state

open access: yesJuvenile &Family Court Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on Sampson and colleagues' racial inequality theories, we examine how referral and county characteristics affect the handling of juvenile court caseloads. Specifically, we use data from Mississippi Youth Courts for the years 2016 through 2021 to conduct two‐level multinomial regression analyses examining the role of referral‐level ...
Angela A. Robertson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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