Join us at this special wine mess for alumni and admitted students from the class of 2019 and enjoy an insightful presentation by Prof. Tom Ginsburg, entitled Judicial Reputation in the US and Beyond: An Agenda for Reform. Please RSVP here.

Reputation is important in every endeavor, and particularly so in judging. After all, judges famously lack the pen and the sword, so in some sense a reputation-for quality, fair decision-making for example-is their only resource for getting people to obey their pronouncements. While many would agree that reputation is important, we know very little about how judicial reputation is produced and how it changes over time. This book tackles that problem. We define reputation as the stock of judgements that audiences have on past performance. Good reputation is an asset; bad reputation can become a self-fulfilling trap, as in developing countries, where people do not trust the judiciary and so it does not attract resources and talent.