Brian Flanagan

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

Maynooth, County Kildare

Ireland

  • National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

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Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning

Forthcoming in Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence, editor Kevin Tobia, Cambridge University Press
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2023
Neil Thompson, Brian Flanagan, Edana Richardson, Brian McKenzie and Xueyun Luo
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law, Maynooth University and Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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User-Generated Content Shapes Judicial Reasoning: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial on Wikipedia

Published in: Information Systems Research 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2023.0034 (open access)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2024
Neil Thompson, Xueyun Luo, Brian McKenzie, Edana Richardson and Brian Flanagan
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Courts, Wikipedia, randomised control trial, media, user-generated content

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Revisiting the Contribution of Literal Meaning to Legal Meaning

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Revisiting the Contribution of Literal Meaning to Legal Meaning

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 2, pp. 255-271, 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2011
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Revisiting the Contribution of Literal Meaning to Legal Meaning

UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14/2009
Posted: 28 Jul 2009
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

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Judicial Decision-Making and Transnational Law: A Survey of Common Law Supreme Court Judges

International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 60, pp. 1-28, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Oct 2011
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Moral Appraisals Guide Intuitive Legal Determinations

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2022
Brian Flanagan, Guilherme F. C. F. de Almeida, Noel Struchiner and Ivar Hannikainen
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law, Yale University, PUC-Rio and Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada
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experimental jurisprudence, cognitive science, automatic processes, natural law, legal positivism

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The Burning Armchair: Can Jurisprudence be Advanced by Experiment?

Brian Flanagan (2023) The burning armchair: can jurisprudence be advanced by experiment?, Jurisprudence, DOI: 10.1080/20403313.2023.2290954
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2023
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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jurisprudence, experimental philosophy

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The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2024
Brian Flanagan, Guilherme Almeida, Daniel Chen and Angela Gitahi
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law, Insper, University of Toulouse Capitole - Toulouse School of Economics and McGill University
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AI, Legal Reasoning, Experimental Jurisprudence, LLM, Rule of Law, Robot Judges

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Intentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?

Forthcoming in: New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics. Ruth Chang & Amia Srinivasan (eds.) Oxford University Press (2022).
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Collective agency, law, statutory interpretation, positive political theory

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Scalia, Hamdan and the Principles of Subject Matter Recusal

Denning Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 149, 2007
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Sep 2007
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Trait Empathy Predicts Purposivist Rule Application: Nationally Representative Survey Evidence

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Guilherme Almeida, Brian Flanagan and Ivar Hannikainen
Insper, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada
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Experimental jurisprudence, Rule violation, Purpose, Individual Differences, Legal reasoning, Institutions

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The Effect of Minority Preferences on the White Applicant: A Misplaced Consensus?

Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2008
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Evidence of conceptual mastery in the application of rules by Large Language Models

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Mar 2025
José Luiz Nunes, Guilherme Almeida and Brian Flanagan
Center for Technology and Society Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School of Rio de Janeiro, Insper and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Large Language Models, Rule Application, Experimental Jurisprudence

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Judicial Globalisation and Perceptions of Disagreement: Two Surveys

New Zealand Law Review, 2012
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Brian Flanagan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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foreign law, judicial survey, legal disagreement