| Empirical Research and the Politics of Judicial Administration: Creating the Federal Judicial Center (PDF) A case study about the creation of the Federal Judicial Center. This article indicates that changes in court organization, including changes to promise quantitative research, are likely to reflect developments in the larger environment of which the courts are a part. Federal Judicial Center's Research Mandate: Empirical Research in Aid of Judicial Administration (PDF) To comply with its statutory mandate, the staff of the Center s Research Division, researchers with advanced degrees in one of the social sciences or law or both, develop and execute a range of analytical projects, many undertaken at the request of committees of the U.S. Judicial Conference. Center research undertakes projects based on the needs of judicial branch policy makers and strives to employ the most appropriate and sophisticated methodology. |
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