Judges as Team Players
Book launch with Professor Nuno Garoupa, College of Law, University of Illinois
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The book Judges as Team Players is an effort to understand the structure of judicial systems around the world. Such systems exhibit the range of similarities and differences that motivates comparative inquiry in many fields.
While there is no shortage of other accounts in comparative law trying to explain the various facts that we observe, most of these draw very heavily on history, tradition, and culture. Our account, however, starts in a different place: the economics of information, and the powerful agency model that has become central to modern law and economics.
A simple model, that is presented in the book, can explain a good deal of the variation that we observe around the world. Judicial organization, it turns out, shares a lot with what economists sometimes call industrial organisation.
Join us when Professor Garoupa presents his latest work.
Free and open for all.
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