Colleagues reject judicial criticism of finding that Wikipedia influences the High Court’s citation of precedents

 On the 9^th May, Dr Brian Flanagan and Dr Edana Richardson  in the School of Law and Criminology, alongside Dr Brian McKenzie, Maynooth University,  Dr Neil Thompson, MIT and Xueyun Luo, Cornell University published a response in SSRN entitled, Trial by Internet: A Response to Judicial Critics
 
The publication has sparked interested and discussion in National Media outlets the Irish Times and the Irish Independent.
 
Abstract
In July 2022, we released a preprint of Chapter 38 of The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence. In the months that followed, there were a variety of judicial reactions, ranging from levity and philosophical reflection, to irritation and ad hominem criticism. The most detailed response consisted in a paper, ‘Academia’, co-authored by a High Court judge, that was published online in May 2023. In this rejoinder, we show that the concerns expressed in that paper are ill-founded.

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