000 01765nam a22001577a 4500
999 _c523241
_d523241
008 230802b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100 _aCastelliano, C., Grajzl, P. and Watanabe, E.
_942215
245 _aMultidomain judging and administration of justice: Evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction
260 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300 _a89(2), Jun, 2023: p.577-594
520 _aInefficacious courts and limited judicial resources are a ubiquitous problem in many jurisdictions worldwide. To facilitate administration of justice, court administrators must therefore resort to unconventional practices. In Brazilian state and federal courts, judges normally assigned to the disposition of cases in a single domain are often directed to dispose cases in an additional domain, thus engaging in multidomain judging. Using a comprehensive court-level panel dataset, we investigate the consequences of multidomain judging for the efficacy of Brazilian administration of justice. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find no evidence that multidomain judging reduces court efficacy in resolution of special-procedure cases and appeals to special-procedure cases. Multidomain judging evidently reduces court efficacy exclusively in the resolution of ordinary-procedure cases, and even then only when judges assigned to the disposition of those cases are instructed to additionally resolve special-procedure cases. We discuss plausible explanations for this and the policy implications of our findings.- Reproduced
650 _aBrazil, Courts, Efficacy, Justice administration, Multidomain judging panel data.
_939565
773 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906 _aCOURTS
942 _cAR