Jurisprudential Regimes Theory on Supreme Court: Old Ideas Meet New Data

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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.

Article card for article: The Nature of Legal Change on the U.S. Supreme Court: Jurisprudential Regimes Theory and Its Alternatives

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.