The current issue of the Duke Law Journal features a symposium on “Measuring Judges and Justices.” The first thing I’m going to read from this symposium is this article by Brudney and Ditslear that is a follow up to their earlier, pathbreaking empirical piece on substantive canons in the Vanderbilt Law Review. (I relied on that piece heavily in my work on “The Democracy Canon”).
The issue also contains the a follow-up to the Gulati and Choi article on ranking judges by Gulati, Choi, and (Eric) Posner.