The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics

Author: Keith E. Whittington; R.Daniel Kelemen; Gregory A. Caldeira
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199585571
Published In: June 2010
Format: Paperback
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The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today
The only fully comprehensive ten-volume survey of the whole discipline
Not just a review of the discipline, but a major contribution to it
Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and law-and-society to such re-emerging subjects as comparative judicial politics, international law, and democratization. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politicsgathers together leading scholars in the field to assess key literatures shaping the discipline today and to help set the direction of research in the decade ahead.

Readership: Scholars and students of political science, law, and adjacent disciplines.

Part I: IntroductionKeith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira:
Part II: Approaches
1: Jeffrey Segal: Judicial Behavior
2: Pablo Spiller and Rafael Gely: Strategic Action
3: Rogers Smith: Historical Institutionalism
4: Malcolm Feeley: Sociological Perspectives
Part III: Comparative Judicial Politics
5: Rick Messick and Matthew Stephenson: Rule of Law, Courts, and Economic Development
6: Rebecca Chavez: Rule of Law and Courts in Democratizing Regimes
7: Thomas Ginsburg: The Global Spread of Constitutional Review
8: Georg Vanberg: Establishing and Maintaining Judicial Independence
9: Ran Hirschl: Judicialization of Politics?
10: Daniel Halberstam: Federalism
11: Kim Scheppele: Emergency and Prerogative Powers
Part IV: International and Supranational Law
12: Beth Simmons: International Law
13: Karen Alter: The European Court of Justice and European Legal Integration
14: Gary Bass: War Crimes Tribunals
15: Bryant Garth: The Globalization of the Law
Part V: Forms of Legal Order
16: Ugo Mattei and Luca Pes: Civil Law and Common Law: Toward Convergence?
17: Keith Whittington: Constitutionalism
18: Mark Graber: Constitutional Law
19: Richard Pildes: Legal Structures of Democracy
20: Daniel Rodriguez: Administrative Law
21: Elizabeth Garrett: Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
22: Christine Harrington: Informal and Private Dispute Resolution
Part VI: Sources of Law and Theories of Jurisprudence
23: Jules Coleman: Positivism
24: Robert George: Natural Law
25: Matthew Kramer: Rights Liberalism
26: Frederick Schauer: Formalism and Its Discontents
27: Judith Baer: Feminist Theory
28: Sheila Foster and Robin Lenhardt: Race and Legal Theory
Part VII: The American Judicial Context
29: David Yalof: Filling the Bench
30: Lee Epstein: The U.S. Supreme Court
31: Susan Haire: Relations Among Courts
32: Michael McCann: Litigation and the Mobilization of Law
33: Richard Abel: Legal Profession
34: Gregory A. Caldeira: The Public and the Courts
Part VIII: The Political and Policy Environment of Courts in the United States
35: Frank Cross: Judicial Independence
36: Susan Rose-Ackerman: Law and Regulation
37: Charles Epp: Law as an Instrument of Social Reform
38: Wesley Skogan: Criminal Justice and Police
39: Julie Novkov: Law and Political Ideologies
40: Howard Gillman: Courts and Political Partisan Regimes
41: Scott Barclay and Susan Silbey: Legal Consciousness
Part IX: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Politics
42: Lynn Mathers: Law and Society
43: Lewis Kornhauser: Law and Economics
44: Tom Tyler: Law and Psychology
45: William MacNeil: Law and Literature
46: Christopher Tomlins: Law and History
Part X: Old and NewStuart Scheingold, Harold Spaeth , and Martin Shapiro:

Edited by Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University, R. Daniel Kelemen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, and Gregory A. Caldeira, Professor of Political Science , Ohio State University

Contributors:

Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University
R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University
Gregory A. Caldeira, Ohio State University
Jeffrey Segal, SUNY, Stony Brook
Pablo Spiller, UC Berkeley
Rafael Gely, University of Cincinnati
Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Malcolm Feeley, UC Berkeley
Rick Messick, World Bank
Matthew Stephenson, Harvard Law School
Rebecca Chavez, US Naval Academy
Thomas Ginsburg, University of Illinois
Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina
Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto
Daniel Halberstam, University of Michigan
Kim Scheppele, Princeton University
Beth Simmons, Harvard University
Karen Alter, Nortwestern University
Gary Bass, Princeton University
Bryant Garth, Southwestern Law School
Ugo Mattei, London School of Economics
Luca Pes, London School of Economics
Mark Graber, University of Maryland
Richard Pildes, New York University
Daniel Rodriguez, University of Texas
Elizabeth Garrett, University of Southern California
Christine Harrington, New York University
Jules Coleman, Yale University
Robert George, Princeton University
Matthew Kramer, University of Cambridge
Frederick Schauer, Harvard University
Judith Baer, Texas A & M University
Sheila Foster, Fordham University
Robin Lenhardt, Fordham University
David Yalof, University of Connecticut
Lee Epstein, Washington University
Susan Haire, University of Georgia
Michael McCann, University of Washington
Richard Abel, UC Los Angeles
Frank Cross, University of Texas
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University
Charles Epp, University of Kansas
Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University
Julie Novkov, SUNY, Albany
Howard Gillman, University of Southern California
Scott Barclay, SUNY, Albany
Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lynn Mathers, SUNY, Buffalo
Lewis Kornhauser, New York University
Tom Tyler, New York University
William MacNeil, Griffith University
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Stuart Scheingold, University of Washington
Harold Spaeth, Michigan State University
Martin Shapiro, UC Berkeley

"The editors have assembled an extremely impressive list of scholars from law and political science -- a veritable who's who in the field -- and have produced a volume that defines an ambitious agenda for the study of law and politics for the next generation." - John Ferejohn, Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

"I strongly recommend purchasing The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics ... The essays the editors have assassed not only review a solid base of knowledge but they also identify new puzzles to pursue and possibilities for collaboration ... For me, the bottom line is this. I am more excited about our field than I was before reading the handbook. I am anxious to get back to work on the problems the handbook addresses. I would strongly recommend purchasing it and using it in your classes. I surely will." - Jeffrey K. Staton, Emory University, in Law and Politics Book Review