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

这个项目调查了英国155年的历史时期，1845-1999年的上诉招聘，精英代表，以及英国高级司法机构的司法决策。它大大扩展了现有的数据库，该数据库概括了关于高等法院法官、上诉法院法官、上诉法院法官和普通上诉法院法官的150多项个人特征衡量标准--特别是家庭状况和教育、法律背景和经验以及职业道路。该项目有三个研究目的：(1)描述和分析上个世纪在英国高级司法机构任职的人和哈尔。这方面的研究将展示这些司法精英如何随着时间的推移而发生变化，以及司法机构组成的变化如何反映(或未能反映)英国社会和政治的变化；(2)开发上诉法官招聘的因果模型；(3)探索英国背景特征与司法决策之间的关系。

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.