The Oxford handbook of U.S. judicial behavior /
U.S. judicial behavior
edited by Lee Epstein and Stefanie A. Lindquist.
- 1 online resource.
- The Oxford handbooks of American politics .
- Oxford handbooks of American politics. Oxford handbooks online. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Federal Judicial Tenure / Gatekeeping and Filtering in Trial Courts / Access to Intermediate Appellate Courts / Agenda-Setting on the United States Supreme Court / Law Clerks / Opinion Writing / Courtroom Proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts / Vertical Stare Decisis / Courts and Executives / Ideology and Partisanship / Judges and Their Audiences / Interest Groups and the Judiciary / The Economic Analysis of Judicial Behavior / Judicial Review / Appointing Federal Judges / The Relationship between Courts and Legislatures / Covering the Courts / The Supreme Court and Public Opinion / The Role of Personal Attributes and Social Backgrounds on Judging / Judicial Impact / Cognition in the Courts: Analyzing the Use of Experiments to Study Legal Decision-Making / New Measurement Technologies: A Review and Application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson / The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior and the Separation of Powers / Law in Judicial Decision Making / The Use of Observational Data to Study Law and the Judiciary / Judicial Elections: Judges and Their “New-Style” Constituencies / Appointing Supreme Court Justices / Albert Yoon -- Christina L. Boyd -- Donald R. Songer, Susan B. Haire -- Ryan J. Owens, James Sieja -- Artemus Ward -- Pamela C. Corley -- Timothy R. Johnson -- Thomas G. Hansford -- Jeffrey L. Yates, Scott Boddery -- Jeffrey A. Segal -- Lawrence Baum -- Paul M. Collins Jr. -- Lee Epstein, Jack Knight -- Tom Clark -- Nancy Scherer -- Thomas M. Keck -- Rorie Solberg -- Joseph Daniel Ura, Alison Higgins Merrill -- Tracey E. George, Taylor Grace Weaver -- Matthew E.K. Hall -- Eileen Braman -- Daniel E. Ho, Michael Morse -- Chad L. Westerland -- David Klein -- Sara C. Benesh -- James L. Gibson, Michael J. Nelson -- Christine L. Nemacheck.
The chapters in this handbook reflect on aspects of judicial decision-making in U.S. courts, with a focus on the factors and institutional dynamics that shape the choices judges make. The authors have provided chapters that describe existing research on multiple aspects of the decision-making process and environment, including chapters on judicial appointments and elections, court personnel (law clerks), trial and appellate processes, precedent and case selection, lawyers, litigants and interest groups, intergovernmental dynamics and the separation of powers, judicial attitudes and background characteristics, public opinion, and judicial impact and the implementation of court decrees.