The Effect of Counsel-Related Resources on Appellate Decisions

这个项目的重点是法律的顾问的影响， “政党能力论”的视角， 建议利用法庭的强大而有组织的政党 通常在战术和战略上对较弱的对手占据优势， 当事人，特别是使用司法资源的个人诉讼当事人 只是间歇性的。 具体而言，它调查了是否以及如何之间的差异 与律师有关的资源影响上诉机构作出的裁决 法院 此外，该研究采用了多变量 统计模型，以评估与律师有关的重要性 与其他解释结果有关的资源 上诉法院 除了推进经验理解 律师是否以及如何在诉讼中发挥作用， 以英国上诉法院为重点的跨国框架， 可以探索政党能力理论 是与美国的经验相关联的。

This project focuses on the effects of legal counsel from the perspective of "party capability theory," a set of ideas which proposes that powerful and organized parties who use courts routinely hold tactical and strategic advantage over weaker parties, especially individual litigants who use judicial resources only intermittently. Specifically, it investigates whether and how disparities between counsel related resources affect the ruling made by an appellate court. In addition, the research employs a multivariate statistical model to assess the importance of counsel related resources in relation to other explanations for outcomes in appellate courts. In addition to advancing empirical understanding of whether and how lawyers make a difference in litigation, the cross-national framework, focusing on the English Court of Appeals, enables exploration of the extent to which party capability theory is context-bound to the U.S. experience.