Bounded Rationality and the Choice of Jury Selection Procedures
36 Pages Posted: 26 Feb 2017 Last revised: 13 Apr 2017
Date Written: April 12, 2017
Abstract
A peremptory challenge procedure allows the parties to a jury trial to dismiss some prospective jurors without justification. Complex challenge procedures offer an unfair advantage to parties who are better able to strategize. I introduce a new measure of strategic complexity based on “level-k” thinking and use this measure to compare challenge procedures often used in practice. In applying this measure, I overturn some commonly held beliefs about which jury selection procedures are “strategically simple.”
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Van der Linden, Martin, Bounded Rationality and the Choice of Jury Selection Procedures (April 12, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922790 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2922790
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