Nina Varsava

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Assistant Professor of Law

975 Bascom Mall

Madison, WI 53706

United States

http://law.wisc.edu/profiles/nvarsava@wisc.edu

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Scholarly Papers (20)

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Professional Irresponsibility and Judicial Opinions

59 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 103 (2021)
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2021
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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adjudication, courts, judging, judicial process, judicial administration, judicial ethics, professional responsibility

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Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs

136 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1845 (2023), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1754
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 12 May 2023
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Precedent, Stare decisis, Reliance, Federal Courts, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., U.S. Supreme Court

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Elements of Judicial Style: A Quantitative Guide to Neil Gorsuch's Opinion Writing

93 NYU Law Review Online 75 (2018), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1489
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2019
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Judicial Opinions, Federal Courts, Gorsuch, the Judicial Profession, Textual Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Digital Humanities

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Computational Legal Studies, Digital Humanities, and Textual Analysis

Nina Varsava, Computational Legal Studies, Digital Humanities, and Textual Analysis, in COMPUTATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES: THE PROMISE AND CHALLENGE OF DATA-DRIVEN LEGAL RESEARCH (Ryan Whalen ed., 2020) (Forthcoming)., Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1492
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2020
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Computational Legal Studies, Digital Humanities, Stylometrics, Judicial Opinions, Judges, Courts, Corpus Linguistics, Kavanaugh, Law and Rhetoric

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Stare Decisis and Intersystemic Adjudication

97 Notre Dame Law Review 1207 (2022), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1495
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Jurisprudence, Interpretation, Precedent, Conflict of Laws, Procedure, Federal Courts, State Courts, Judicial Role, Jurisdiction

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How to Realize the Value of Stare Decisis: Options for Following Precedent

30 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 62 (2018), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1490
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2019
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Prodecure, Courts, Precedent, Stare decisis, Judicial decision-making, Common law, Legal theory, Jurisprudence, Judicial ethics, Legal ethics, Legitimacy, Equality, Comparative justice

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The Problem of Anthropomorphous Animals: Toward a Posthumanist Ethics

Varsava, Nina. "The Problem of Anthropomorphous Animals: Toward a Posthumanist Ethics." Society & Animals 22, no. 5 (2014): 520-536
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Aug 2017
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Applied ethics, Practical ethics, Animal ethics, Justice, Political theory, Human-Animal relations, Humanism, Language, Anthropocentrism, Anthropomorphism

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The Role of Dissents in the Formation of Precedent

14 DUKE JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 285 (2019), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1493
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2019
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Plurality Decisions, Courts, Judging, Procedure, Criminal Justice, Judicial Opinions, Precedent, Case Law, Dissents

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Precedent on Precedent

169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 118 (2020)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Precedent, Stare decisis, Ramos v. Louisiana, Plurality decisions, Supreme Court, Judicial decisionmaking, Marks v. United States, Sixth Amendment

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The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions

in Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Timothy Endicott et al. eds., Oxford UP 2023) , Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1732
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2024
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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jurisprudence, precedent, legal reasoning, stare decisis, law as integrity, equality, interpretation

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Allocating Authority between Lawyers and Their Clients after McCoy v. Louisiana

23 NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 170 (2020), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1491
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Independent, Yale University - Law School and Independent
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Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Justice, Rules of Professional Conduct, Constitutional Law, Sixth Amendment

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Judicial Dark Matter

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 91, 2024 (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 24 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Virginia School of Law, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
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Opinion Authorship and Precedential Status

Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1765, Washington University Law Review, Vol. 101, 2024
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 13 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2024
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Precedent, Judiciary, Judicial Administration, Federal Courts, Judicial Opinions, Gender, Race, Legal Profession

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Severe Brain Injury, Disability, and the Law: Achieving Justice for a Marginalized Population

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 45, 2018
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 26 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2018
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Independent, Yale University, Law School, Yale University - Law School, University of Miami - School of Law and Weill Cornell Medical College
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disability, severe brain injury, disorders of consciousness, ADA, ACA, FDA, CRPD, IDEA, tort

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Reconstructing Precedent

Forthcoming in Interpretivism and its Critics: New Work in Legal Philosophy,
ed. Nicos Stavropoulos, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Jul 2024
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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stare decisis, interpretivism, Dworkin, legal reasoning, judicial decisionmaking, adjudication, Dobbs, precedent

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How to Account for Equality

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2018
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Egalitarianism, Equality, Inequality, Philosophy and Economics, Measures of Inequality, Distributive Justice, Larry Temkin

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Animal Ethics, Liberal Democracies, and a Modest Proposal (Review of Animals, Equality and Democracy)

Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 133-39, 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 31 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Animal Ethics, Political Theory, Liberal Democracy, Legal Protection, Inequality, Government, Visibility, Animals and Economics

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Non-Consensual Disclosures

Nina Varsava, Non-Consensual Disclosures, 47 BYU L. REV. 219 (2021).
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2022
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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health law and policy, bioethics, administrative law, regulation, consent, human subjects research

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Gendered Judicial Opinions

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2024-45, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2024-22, Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 May 2024
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics
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judicial behavior, judge gender, selection bias, causal inference, topic modeling

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Derivative Recognition and Intersystemic Interpretation

Forthcoming in Legal Theory
Number of pages: 45
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Interpretation, Adjudication, Conflict of Laws, Jurisprudence, Positivism

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 143
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‘Radically Reasonable Politics: Animal Rights and Liberal Democracy’ Review of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, by Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson, Oxford UP

Humanimalia, Vol. 4(1), p. 167-71, Fall 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Animal Ethics, Political Theory, Applied Ethics, Practical Ethics, Citizenship, Democracy, Liberalism, Equality, Moral Philosophy