Federal Judges Revealed

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Federal Judges Revealed

By William Domnarski
Oxford University Press USA January 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780195374599
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication
January 2009
Format
Paperback , 240 pages
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Allows the reader to evaluate Federal judges based on their own words without an intermediary.
  • Organizes the material thematically so that practitioners can easily access professional areas of interest.
  • Considers the background of the judges through college, law school, military service, clerkships, practice lives, and their appointments to the federal bench.

The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood. And while there have been a fair number of institutional studies-studies of individual district courts or courts of appeal--there have been very few studies of the judiciary that emphasize the judges themselves.Federal Judges Revealed considers approximately one hundred oral histories of Article Three judges, extracting the most important information, and organizing it around a series of presented topics such as "How judges write their opinions" and "What judges believe make a good lawyer."

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE: LIFE BEFORE ADMISSION TO THE BAR
  • TWO: WHEN THEY WERE LAWYERS
  • THREE: JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS RECOUNTED
  • FOUR: ONCE APPOINTED, TRANSITION TO THE JOB
  • FIVE: NATURE OF THE JOB
  • SIX: IN CHAMBERS, IN COURT AND GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS
  • SEVEN: JUDICIAL OPINIONS
  • EIGHT: JUDGES ON LAWYERS AND OTHER JUDGES
  • LIST OF QUOTED ORAL HISTORIES
  • INDEX

About the Author

William Domnarski is an attorney in Riverside, California who practices exclusively in the federal court system. He has written In the Opinion of the Court (University of Illinois Press, 1996) and The Great Justices 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers (University of Michigan Press, 2006).

Reviews

"Federal Judges Revealed offers a captivating look inside the personal and professional lives of judges as well as insight into the workings of the federal judicial system as a whole. Domnarski has done the legal community a service by collecting this information and organizing it into a cohesive and readable whole." 
--Emily Judge, The Federal Laywer

"Federal Judges Revealed stands as a valuable addition to the literature on judges and judging. It provides a useful introduction to, and overview of, a previously overlooked resource for studying how a broad range of judges understand their role." 
--Chad M. Oldfather, Associate Professor, Marquette University Law School 
George Washington University Law Review

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