Introduction: This article challenges the notion of drastic legal change on the U.S. Supreme Court.
* Theoretical Framework: Examines Jurisprudential Regimes Theory (JRT), Evolutionary Change, and Legal Stability perspectives.
* 🚫Key Finding 1: Empirical evidence supports multiple models of legal change simultaneously.
* 🚫Key Finding 2: Analysis of updated free expression data aligns with JRT, stability theory, and evolutionary approaches.
The results suggest that the influence of law versus ideology is complex and context-dependent. They highlight how different empirical periods can reveal distinct patterns of legal reasoning.
| The Nature of Legal Change on the U.S. Supreme Court: Jurisprudential Regimes Theory and Its Alternatives was authored by Brandon Bartels and Andrew O'Geen. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2015. |
