I am thrilled to announce the publication today of my book, “La décision juridictionnelle: Introduction à la théorie et à l’empirie du droit,” with French publisher Lefebvre Dalloz.
Synthesizing theoretical contributions from behavioral psychology, empirical legal analysis, and even linguistics, this book examines the multifarious factors modulating judicial decision-making. Besides ideology, gender, and cognitive biases, the book considers the often overlooked role of factors such as workload, litigation dynamics, and the broder political environment in which judges operate. Driven by the constant concern to relate theory and empirical evidence, its argument is illustrated with a rich variety of examples: the strategic construction of a directive by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the ideological orientation of judges sitting on the European Court of Human Rights, evidence of susceptibility to various biases from vignette experiments conducted with professional magistrates, and so on.
If you read French, you can order the book (EUR 39) here:
LGDJ: https://www.lgdj.fr/la-decision-juridictionnelle-9782247233281.html