Benjamin Alarie is the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. He also serves as President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association. He works primarily in taxation law and judicial decision-making, and he has published in the American Business Law Journal, the British Tax Review, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Canadian Tax Journal, and many other academic journals. He is co-author of several editions of Canadian Income Tax Law. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2004, Alarie clerked for Madam Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada. He holds an MA and JD from Toronto and an LLM from Yale.

Andrew J. Green is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. His work focuses on environmental law, international trade and administrative law (how international trade rules constrain countries' ability to implement domestic environmental policy), and the role of law in fostering individuals' environmental values. He has published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Virginia Environmental Law Review, the Supreme Court Law Review, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, among others. He holds a BA Hons from Queens, an MA and LLB from Toronto, and an LLM and JSD from Chicago.

"The law is not an abstract ideal, but something that emerges from a specific institutional context. This book builds on this key idea to analyze how specific institutional features translate into specific legal experiences across several countries with well-established and highly varied legal systems. I highly recommend this book for anyone using comparative methods to understand how the law really works." - Michael A. Bailey, Colonel William J. Walsh Professor, Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

"A creative new approach to thinking about high courts and how judges do their work. Provides some valuable perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court and charts a path forward in the study of judicial politics." - Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University

"In this ambitious and important book, Alarie and Green build a theory for how the way a court works affects the justice a court affords its citizens. The authors offer an innovative and parsimonious model of appellate court design that is trans-substantive and trans-continental. It will be required reading for those studying courts or seeking to improve them." - Tracey E. George, Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Professor in Law and Liberty Vanderbilt University Law School

"How does the institutional design of a country's high court affect how judges decide cases? In this book, Alarie and Green produced a thoroughly modern, theoretically informed, and empirically grounded analysis of this longstanding question. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in comparative legal institutions." - Kevin Quinn, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley