Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts

Benjamin Alarie is the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. He also serves as President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association. He works primarily in taxation law and judicial decision-making, and he has published in the American Business Law Journal, the British Tax Review, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Canadian Tax Journal, and many other academic journals. He is co-author of several editions of Canadian Income Tax Law. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2004, Alarie clerked for Madam Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada. He holds an MA and JD from Toronto and an LLM from Yale.Andrew J. Green is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. His work focuses on environmental law, international trade and administrative law (how international trade rules constrain countries' ability to implement domestic environmental policy), and the role of law in fostering individuals' environmental values. He has published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Virginia Environmental Law Review, the Supreme Court Law Review, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, among others. He holds a BA Hons from Queens, an MA and LLB from Toronto, and an LLM and JSD from Chicago.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION1 COMMITMENT AND COOPERATION ON HIGH COURTS2 HOW DO JUDGES DECIDE?3 PLANTING THE SEED: CHOOSING HIGH COURT JUDGES4 WHO HEARS THE PARTICULAR APPEAL?5 DO JUDGES CARE ABOUT OTHERS?6 SLIPPING THROUGH THE SCREEN: HOW DO COURTS CHOOSE THE CASESTHEY HEAR?7 THE INFLUENCE OF THE PARTIES ON JUDGES: ACCURACY OR AFFILIATION8 NORMS, LEADERSHIP AND CONSENSUS9 CONCLUSIONAPPENDICES1 THE DATA2 INFLUENCES ON JUDGE'S VOTES3 DISSENT ANALYSIS INDEX

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