Abstract
The study of judicial politics has long been characterized by disputes between normative jurisprudence and an empirically oriented political jurisprudence. Normative jurisprudence examines the principles and values embodied in the courts' constitutional and statutory decisions and consists of traditional public law and critical legal studies, which are both skeptical of the positivist bent of behavioral political science.1 Yet, public law and critical legal studies exhibit important differences in their understanding of the legal doctrines that courts formulate to justify their decisions. While public law treats legal doctrines as a form of normative political philosophy, critical legal studies conceptualize them as political ideology that rationalizes unequal power relations.
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