The Devil We Know
Legal Precedent and the Preservation of Injustice
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 22124677 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Erin P Hennes (0000-0002-6897-3541, Purdue University West Lafayette, autor de correspondencia), Layla Dang (0009-0005-6757-0192, Purdue University West Lafayette) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 8 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 76-83 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2372-7322 • E-ISSN: 2372-7330 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2372732220980757 |
| OpenAlex | W3130494435 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 44 |
A hallmark feature of the common law tradition is reliance on past decisions, or precedent, to resolve legal ambiguity and ensure consistency across similar cases. Yet the intent of precedent—to safeguard equity—may be undermined by nonconscious psychological processes. The behavioral and brain sciences show that decision-making can be contaminated by a human proclivity (endemic among both judges and laypeople) to justify and legitimize extant societal arrangements. Examples from case law and empirical legal studies illustrate how precedent may impede social justice in ways that are predictable from psychological theory. Highlighted in particular are barriers to justice disproportionately encountered by members of historically disadvantaged groups. The article closes with a discussion of opportunities for institutional reform and a call for continued scholarship examining the prevalence and impact of status-quo-maintaining biases in the legal system
Ambiguity · Disadvantaged · Economic Justice · Empirical legal studies · Injustice · Law and economics · Legal profession · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Status quo · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Rights on Trial
The Vanishing Trial
Status quo bias in decision making
Legislating Incentives for Attorney Representation in Civil Rights Litigation
Judging the Judiciary by the Numbers
Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation
The Content of Our Categories
The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection
Why Must Inferior Courts Obey Superior Court Precedents
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades
Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo
Omission and commission in judgment and choice
When the pressure is up
Jalap or Veracruz jalap and its allies
The Influence of Precedent on State Supreme Courts
A Sense of Powerlessness Fosters System Justification
Mechanism of Motivated Reasoning? Analogical Perception in Discrimination Disputes
The Influence of Stare Decisis on the Votes of United States Supreme Court Justices
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
Explaining the evidence
A quarter century of system justification theory
System Justification Theory and Research
The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production of false consciousness
The case for motivated reasoning
The psychology of doing nothing
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |