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Abstract
Given that there is significant variation across the states in terms of whether death examination offices are run by trained professionals or local politicians, we should, in theory, be able to empirically test the question of whether professionals or politicians do a better job of adjudicating death. It turns out that, although there are strong opinions about what the answer surely is, there has been little in the way of serious empirical work addressing this question. Our Article takes a first cut at looking at how one might do that analysis.
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Stephen J. Choi and Mitu Gulati,
Adjudicating Death: Professionals or Politicians?,
70 Vanderbilt Law Review
1709
(2017)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol70/iss6/3