This Thursday, April 7th (14h30-16h00), Bernard Grofman was supposed to be presenting. However, a health problem has prevented his trip to Portugal, unfortunately. Therefore, I'll be standing in for him (and chairing as well). I’ll be presenting a paper  entitled, co-authored with Jon Kåre Skiple (NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre), Miguel M. Pereira (University of Southern California), Sveinung Arnesen (NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre) and Henrik Litleré Bentsen (NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre).

Here’s the abstract:

How do decision-making processes in high courts affect the public response to judicial decisions? One prevalent view suggests that citizens expect courts to be neutral arbiters of legal controversies. However, the relevance of such “myth of legality” has been challenged. Furthermore, we know little about how different forms of judicial decision-making affect public attitudes in civil law countries. We explore these questions in a pair of pre-registered experiments in Norway and Portugal where we isolate the effects of procedure and outcome favourability. We find that citizens in both countries are not adversely affected by depictions of decision-making that emphasize policy goals. Legalistic frames are not the only source of fairness perceptions or even of decisional acceptance. The results suggest that, even in civil law systems, preserving the myth of legality may not be a necessary condition to elicit public support for judicial decisions.

 As usual, it will be a hybrid session. For those of you who will not be able to attend in person, here’s the Zoom link:

Tópico: SPARC: Pedro Magalhães et al.

Hora: 7 abr. 2022 02:30 da tarde Lisboa

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