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Abstract
Judges and Academic Scholarship: An Empirical Study of the
Academic Publication Patterns of Federal Court and High Court Judges
Writing articles in law reviews and other journals is an important
avenue through which judge scan be heard. There are studies for North American
courts that examine the publishing patterns of judges. There are, however, no
studies of this sort for Australian judges. This represents a shortcoming in
our understanding of how judges exercise academic leadership and interact with
the legal profession in a period in which interest in the views of the judges
is at an all time high. This paper re[presents the first empirical study of
the publishing habits of Australia judges. The paper examines trends in publishing
over time, which are the most popular outlets for judges, which judges publish
the most and what explains differences in the number of articles which judges
write.
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