DISSERTATION IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH: Appellate Recruitment, Elite Representation, and Judicial Decision Making in the Higher British Judiciary, 1845-1999

该项目调查了1845-1999年英国历史上155年期间英国高等司法机构的上诉机构招聘、精英代表和司法决策。它大大扩展了现有的数据库，其中包括高等法院法官、上诉法院法官、上诉法院法官和普通上诉法院法官的150多项个人特征指标，特别是家庭状况和教育法律的背景和经验以及职业道路。 本课题的研究目标有三：（1）描述和分析上个世纪英国高等司法机构中的任职人员，并对他们的任职情况进行分析。 这方面的研究将显示如何随着时间的推移，这司法精英已经改变，以及如何在司法机构的组成变化已经反映（或未能反映）在英国社会和政治的变化;（2）开发一个因果模型的司法招聘到上诉法院;（3）探讨背景特征和司法决策之间的关系在英国的背景。

This project investigates appellate recruitment, elite representation, and judicial decision making in the higher British judiciary for a 155-year period of British history, 1845-1999. It significantly expands an existing database that encapsulates more than 150 measures of personal characteristics--especially family status and education legal backgrounds and experience, and career paths--on the judges of the High Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal, and the Lords of Appeals, and the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The project has three research objective: (1) To describe and analyze who has served in the higher British judiciary in the last century and a hal. This aspect of the research will show how this judicial elite has changed over time, and how change in the composition of the judiciary has reflected (or failed to reflect) changes in British society and politics; (2) To develop a causal model of judicial recruitment to the appellate bench; and (3) To explore the relationship between background characteristics and judicial decision-making in a British context.