The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals - Couverture rigide

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Bowie, Jennifer Barnes; Songer, Donald R.; Szmer, John

 
9780813935997: The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
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ISBN 10 : 0813935997 ISBN 13 : 9780813935997
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2014

Synopsis

For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the limelight of political controversy. But as the number of appeals has increased dramatically, while the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court has remained the same, the courts of appeals have become the court of last resort for the vast majority of litigants. This enhanced status has been recognized by important political actors, and as a result, appointments to the courts of appeals have become more and more contentious since the 1990s. This combination of increasing political salience and increasing political controversy has led to the rise of serious empirical studies of the role of the courts of appeals in our legal and political system.

At once building on and contributing to this wave of scholarship, The View from the Bench and Chambers melds a series of quantitative analyses of judicial decisions with the perspectives gained from in-depth interviews with the judges and their law clerks. This multifaceted approach yields a level of insight beyond that provided by any previous work on appellate courts in the United States, making The View from the Bench and Chambers the most comprehensive and rich account of the operation of these courts to date.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jennifer Barnes Bowie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Donald R. Songer, Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, is author of The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada: An Empirical Examination. John Szmer is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813935997
ISBN 13 
9780813935997
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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