Henrik L. Bentsen

Hi @chanret.bsky.social! We will analyse an actual reform of the Norwegian district courts😀

Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists (FRIPRO) FRIPRO funds both basic and applied research that i scuriosity-driven and bold. This call is aimed at early-career researchers who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientifi...

Exited to share that we have received funding from The Research Council of Norway for the project "Reforming for efficiency? Examining case processing times in the Norwegian District Courts"!

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What explains variation in trust in child protection services and how does trust influence acceptance of state interventions? @mathealo.bsky.social presents impressive survey data from the OECD countries #ecprgc25

Great to be part of this interesting panel on #ecprgc25!

Hvilke rettsformenn former veien til enighet eller uenighet? Vi fant at kvinnelige dommere, når de er rettsformenn, har betydelig høyere sannsynlighet til å oppnå enighet blant dommerne i avdeling.

Hvilke rettsformenn i Norges Høyesterett former veien til enighet eller uenighet? @jonkskiple.bsky.social, Gunnar Grendstad og jeg har skrevet en liten sak i @rett24.bsky.social. Les den her: rett24.no/articles/hvi...

The figure shows our test of the three main hypotheses in the article across different model specifications.

The results confirm that both chief justices and female justices, when operating as the presiding justice of the panel, are significantly more likely to steer the case towards a unanimous decision as compared to their fellow justices. Legal academics had no discernible impact on consensus formation.

We hypothesize that presiding justices with certain characteristics (e.g., gender and chief justice), when in charge of the decision-making process, are more willing and better able to forge consensus.

In the article we examine the impact of the leadership of presiding justices on consensus formation on the Norwegian Supreme Court where cases are distributed randomly to two parallel decisional panels.

The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway Which judicial leaders are more successful in achieving consensus? This article examines the impact of the leadership of presiding justices on consensus formation on the Norwegian Supreme Court where...

Exited to share that @jonkskiple.bsky.social, Gunnar Grendstad, Mark J. McKenzie and I have a new publication in Journal of Empirical Studies. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Leadership in Courts AbstractThis chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of judicial behaviour literature on the leadership of courts. The literature su

Thrilled to share that @jonkskiple.bsky.social and I have contributed a chapter on leadership in courts to The Oxford Handbook on Comparative Judicial Behavior! 🎉 Honored to be part of such a remarkable volume. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...