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Evaluating Australian judicial performance [PDF]

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Judicial performance evaluation involves three distinct approaches: firstly, traditional approaches such as public scrutiny and appellate review; secondly, analysis of judicial attributes such as legal ability, impartiality, integrity etc; and thirdly, court and administrative performance measurement, with its emphasis on time and motion of collective ...
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JPE 2.0: A Modern Approach to Evaluating Judicial Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal
<span>This article shares the results of a multi-year, national effort to modernize judicial performance evaluation (JPE) programs, which are currently in use or under consideration in nearly twenty U.S. jurisdictions. In particular, it describes the genesis and work of the JPE 2.0 Project, a national effort undertaken by IAALS, the Institute for
Jordan M. Singer, Danielle Kalil
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Need for standardizing performance evaluation criteria for judicial magistrates in India

Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 2018
This article, after deliberating on utility of performance evaluation (PE) for the judiciary and practices developed in different jurisdictions for PE, examines existing rules on PE of magistrates ...
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The Bench Speaks on Judicial Performance Evaluation: A Survey of Colorado Judges

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Since 1990, Colorado has maintained a state-operated judicial performance evaluation (JPE) program for appellate and trial court judges. The program is generally designed to serve four purposes: (1) providing voters in retention elections with information about the judges seeking retention; (2) educating the public about qualities and levels of ...
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Sacrificing Diversity for 'Quality': How Judicial Performance Evaluations are Failing Women and Minorities

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Because voters rely on judicial performance evaluations when casting their ballots, it is important that policymakers work diligently to compile valid, reliable and unbiased information about our sitting judges. This paper analyzes attorney surveys of judicial performance in Nevada from 1998-2008.
Rebecca Gill   +2 more
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Gender & Race Bias in the Proposed Judicial Performance Evaluations: Some Preliminary Findings

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Unfortunately, Clark County has a reputation for being one of America’s most preeminent "judicial hell-holes." The Elizabeth Halverson saga is just the latest embarrassing tale of judicial incompetence that threatens the independence of the judiciary.
Sylvia R. Lazos, Rebecca Gill
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Legitimacy Is for Losers: The Interconnections of Institutional Legitimacy, Performance Evaluations, and the Symbols of Judicial Authority

2015
In the last decade or so, social scientists of a variety of different intellectual orientations have renewed their interest in the concept “institutional legitimacy.” In part, this reflects concerns over the efficacy of institutions, and in particular the assumption that all institutions require a healthy dose of voluntary compliance in order to be ...
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Performance-based evaluation, state compensation and judicial ecology: dynamics of China’s detention review practice

Crime, Law and Social Change, 2018
Through participatory observation and in-depth interviews with thirty-four practitioners, this article pierces the veil of the dynamics of China’s pretrial detention system by looking into various socio-legal factors which may affect law enforcement in China.
Xifen Lin, Wei Shen
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Evaluating U.S. judicial district prosecutor performance using DEA: are disadvantaged counties more inefficient?

European Journal of Law and Economics, 2009
In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of prosecutor office efficiency in the United States. Using multiple inputs and multiple outputs to characterize prosecutor office production, technical and scale efficiency are calculated for U.S. counties. Given the complex nature of service provision and potential heterogeneity based on judicial district ...
Gorman, Michael F., Ruggiero, John
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