Australian Federalism in the Courts

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed reported and unreported decisions of the High Court since 1948 in light of party capability theory and found that there is little evidence to support the thesis that stronger parties persistently come out ahead.

TL;DR: The authors used citation practice to investigate the determinants of judicial influence in the High Court of Australia and found that younger appointees with prior judicial experience exert more influence per year on the bench.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of attitudinal, institutional and environmental factors in explaining the dissent rate on the High Court of Australia (hereafter High Court) using data for the period 1904-2001.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider several possible determinants of the transmission of legal precedent across Australian state supreme courts over the course of the twentieth century and find that the transmission is higher between State supreme courts that are more physically proximate and between state supreme court in which a majority of judges in both courts are appointed by conservative governments.