Ideology and Career Judges: Reviewing Labor Law in the Spanish Supreme Court

Nuno Garoupa, Fernando Gómez-Pomar and Adrián Segura

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2022, vol. 178, issue 2, 170-190

Abstract: Conventional literature presents civil-law judiciaries as insulated from political preferences. We investigate labor law appeals in the Spanish Supreme Court for the period 2010-2020. Our findings show that ideology (proxied by conservative/progressive affiliation) is a good predictor of a pro-employee/pro-employer outcome. Specifically, the results detect a pattern of behavior by justice rapporteurs: conservative rapporteurs are more likely to be pro-employer while progressive rapporteurs are more likely to be pro-employee. These findings support previous empirical studies about decisions by the Spanish Supreme Court in other areas of law and challenge the conventional literature.

Keywords: judicial behavior; empirical legal studies; labor law; Spanish Supreme Court; justice rapporteur; ideology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K31 K41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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