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Does being a foreigner shape judicial behaviour? Evidence from the Constitutional Court of Andorra, 1993–2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2017

NUNO GAROUPA
NUNO GAROUPA*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University School of Law; Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon
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Abstract

Different personal attributes have been considered to account for judicial policy preferences around the world: ideology, age, gender, race, religion, language and professional background. The appointment of foreign judges is a particularly rare characteristic since most countries do not entertain such a possibility. We use the specific case of the Constitutional Court of Andorra to test the extent to which foreign-appointed judges make a difference, and particularly whether they are more or less inclined to favour local petitioners. An empirical analysis of the entire population of abstract review cases in the period 1993–2016 does not indicate a strong statistical effect.

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Research Article
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 181 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2017 

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