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Hemrajani Search Hemrajani Hemrajani Posts Publications CV Light Dark Automatic Hemrajani Assistant Professor National Law School of India University, Bengaluru Hi! I am an Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. My main area of research centers around the empirical analysis and evaluation of judicial institutions. My research interests also include legal education in India, the conflict between legal and religious obligations as well as the interpretation of procedural rights in the Indian constitution. Interests Empirical Legal Studies Artificial Intelligence and the Law Comparative Public Law Legal Education Education PhD (Political Science), 2023 University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA LLM (Law and Development), 2017 Azim Premji Univeristy, Bangalore, India MA (Law and Politics), 2015 Ashoka University, Sonepat, India BBA LLB, 2013 Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India Recent Posts Determining the Criteria for Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India I review literature attempting to determine the criteria for appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of India. I show that these studies are limited by data-sources including especially the lack of data about the potential candidate pool for Supreme Court appointments. I show that the court itself has been lax in making the process transparent, and published collegium meeting resolutions have gradually become more sparse and less informative over time. Starting as detailed resolutions with candidate information, these resolutions are now mere statements with just the names of recommended candidates. Aug 25, 2021 9 min read The Need for an Institutional History of the Supreme Court of India: Three Examples from the Early Court I look at three examples of early practices of the Supreme Court of India that highlight how little we know about the institutional history of the court 1) There was a regional bench of the court in Hyderabad, with ad-hoc judges to hear cases 2) There were many even-numbered sized panels of the court suggesting a norm of en banc hearing of important constitutional cases 3) There are examples of seriatim-judgement writing by the court, where all participating judgements gave seperate opinions. Aug 8, 2021 9 min read Does fatigue affect decision-making and efficiency at the Supreme Court of India? Analyzing over 23000 hearings, I examine if the time when a case is heard in the Supreme Court of India affects either the allocation of oral hearing time or decision-making in that case. I find no evidence that time of hearing or day of the week affects judicial decision-making. I find some evidence that the court takes longer to hear similar cases later in the day. Aug 3, 2021 9 min read Publications The Effects of Decision Fatigue on Judicial Behavior: A Study of Arkansas Traffic Court Outcomes Journal of Law and Courts (2024) Using an original dataset of all traffic cases heard in Pulaski County, Arkansas in 2019 and 2020, we examine whether decision fatigue affects case outcomes. We find that charges are less likely to be dismissed in arraignment hearings at the end of a court session than in those at the beginning. This pattern, however, does not hold for trial hearings, suggesting that the effects of fatigue may be context-specific. Hemrajani , Tony Hobert, Jr PDF Cite Code Dataset DOI Preventive repression: Protest policing in New Delhi Journal of Urban Affairs (2023) Using interviews with protesters and the police in New Delhi as well as an original dataset this paper examines the question: why are some protests allowed in Delhi and others refused permission?. We find that the rejection of protest permissions is driven by public order factors such as location and manner, rather than the identity of the protesting group. Rajkamal Singh , Hemrajani , Amit Ahuja PDF Cite DOI The Effects of Source Cues and Issue Frames During COVID-19 Journal of Experimental Political Science (2021) In an online survey experiment with a sample of almost 5,000 US respondents in May 2020, we find no evidence that either source cue or message framing influenced people’s responses to questions about the COVID-19 crisis. Instead, we found that ideology, type of media consumption, and age explained much of the survey response variation. Chandler Case , Christopher Eddy , Hemrajani , Christopher Howell , Daniel Lyons , Yu-Hsien Sung , Elizabeth C. Connors PDF Cite Code Dataset DOI The Empty Court : A Quantitative Analysis of Vacancies in the Supreme Court of India Delhi Law Review (2020) An empirical analysis of the vacancies in the Supreme Court of India that shows that there have been, on average, more vacancies in the SCI since 2015 than any other comparable period in recent history. The paper argues that the collegium system is at least partly responsible for the inefficiency in judicial appointments at the highest court. Hemrajani PDF Cite A temporal analysis of the Supreme Court of India’s workload Indian Law Review (2019) An empirical analysis of the workload of the Supreme Court of India using oral hearing time data from 2016. The analysis shows that the Supreme Court faces an unsustainable workload given existing resources and efficiency. 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