Appellate Practice Bookworm

I have not been too good about going into the wormhole recently, so here are two recent submissions to SSRN that should be of note to our readers, including an article on immigration appeals by a lawyer in the Second Circuit's staff attorney's office who is in charge of immigration appeals.  Read on. 

• John R. B. Palmer, Stephen Yale-Loehr, and Elizabeth Cronin (who is in charge of immigration appeals in the Second Circuit's staff attorneys office), give us Why are so Many People Challenging Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions in Federal Court? An Empirical Analysis of the Recent Surge in Petitions for Review.  Quite interesting, and SSRN provides quite a good abstract.
• Also, Tracey George and Jeffrey Berger from some firm called Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw give us Judicial Entrepreneurs on the U.S. Courts of Appeals: A Citation Analysis of Judicial Influence which concludes “* * * Supreme Court justices regularly cite circuit court opinions, particularly those decided within the last ten years and authored by judges from the same party.“  So it is all about politics, after all. 

Comments

[Happy Fun Lawyer]

Elizabeth Cronin, the co-author of the first paper, is a lawyer in the CA2's staff attorney's office who is in charge of immigration appeals, so this should be a must-read for people litigating immigration appeals in the CA2.

[s.cotus]

Thanks. Updated post.