Last Thursday the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act in a careful, scholarly decision authored by Michael Boudin, a highly respected judge appointed by the President George H. W. Bush.
At the best schools the faculty plays the largest part in the process, but not infrequently various ideological causes take precedence over mere scholarly prominence in decisions, especially outside of the hard sciences.
This research is one of six scholarly articles into decision making highlighted in the Winter 2015 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review.
How will electronic curation decisions affect scholarly research or academic tenure?
Yet her lack of scholarly writings or judicial decisions makes it impossible to call her a towering judicial intellect.
Niko Pfund, the president of Oxford University Press, seconded the notion, pointing additionally to the history profession's continued reliance on the scholarly monograph for tenure decisions.
Article 38 (1) of the ICJ's statute also recognizes judicial decisions and scholarly writings as subsidiary means for the determination of the law.
The court is so highly specialized and its decisions so scholarly that corporations' legal counsels refer to Delaware rulings to order their companies' actions to avoid litigation.
After surveying state and federal court decisions and scholarly opinion, he concludes that the federal judiciary is best suited to providing foreign litigants with an impartial forum.
Hamilton's interpretations of the Constitution set forth in the Federalist Papers remain highly influential, as seen in scholarly studies and court decisions.
The sources cited here are, in order: an article from the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), a Federal Constitutional Court decision, a scholarly commentary on the Basic Law, and a U.S. law review article.
