What's law got to do with it? what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake
What's law got to do with it? what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake
- Stanford Stanford University Press 2011
- xi, 355 p. 24 cm
- Law, politics, and the media .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : so what does law have to do with it? / Charles G. Geyh -- What's law got to do with it : thoughts from "the realm of political science" / Jeffrey A. Segal -- On the study of judicial behaviors : of law, politics, science and humility / Stephen B. Burbank -- Law and policy : more and less than a dichotomy / Lawrence Baum -- Law is politics / Frank B. Cross -- Path dependence in studies of legal decision making / Eileen Braman and J. Mitchell Pickerill -- Looking for law in all the wrong places : some suggestions for modeling legal decisionmaking / Barry Friedman and Andrew D. Martin -- Stare decisis as reciprocity norm / Stefanie A. Lindquist -- How judicial elections are like other elections and what that means for the rule of law / Matthew J. Streb -- On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall -- Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? / David Pozen -- Judging the politics of judging : are politicians in robes inevitably illegitimate? / James L. Gibson -- The rule of law is dead! Long live the rule of law! / Keith J. Bybee -- Views from the bench / Frank Sullivan, Nancy Vaidik, and Sarah Evans Barker.
9780804775335
2011008075
Judicial process--United States.
Judges--United States.
Law--Political aspects--United States.
KF8775.A75 / W48 2011
347.140973 / WH-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : so what does law have to do with it? / Charles G. Geyh -- What's law got to do with it : thoughts from "the realm of political science" / Jeffrey A. Segal -- On the study of judicial behaviors : of law, politics, science and humility / Stephen B. Burbank -- Law and policy : more and less than a dichotomy / Lawrence Baum -- Law is politics / Frank B. Cross -- Path dependence in studies of legal decision making / Eileen Braman and J. Mitchell Pickerill -- Looking for law in all the wrong places : some suggestions for modeling legal decisionmaking / Barry Friedman and Andrew D. Martin -- Stare decisis as reciprocity norm / Stefanie A. Lindquist -- How judicial elections are like other elections and what that means for the rule of law / Matthew J. Streb -- On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall -- Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? / David Pozen -- Judging the politics of judging : are politicians in robes inevitably illegitimate? / James L. Gibson -- The rule of law is dead! Long live the rule of law! / Keith J. Bybee -- Views from the bench / Frank Sullivan, Nancy Vaidik, and Sarah Evans Barker.
9780804775335
2011008075
Judicial process--United States.
Judges--United States.
Law--Political aspects--United States.
KF8775.A75 / W48 2011
347.140973 / WH-