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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior

Author: Lee Epstein; Stefanie A. Lindquist
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199579891
Published In: June 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect judicial decision making.

The Handbook also explores the impact of judges' personal attributes and preferences, as well as prevailing legal doctrine, influence, and shape case outcomes in state and federal courts. The volume also proposes avenues for future research in the various topics addressed throughout the book. Consultant Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III.

Part I: Staffing the Court

1: Appointing Federal Judges, Nancy Scherer

2: Appointing Supreme Court Justices, Christine L. Nemacheck

3: Judicial Elections: Judges and Their 'New-Style' Constituencies, James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson

4: Federal Judicial Tenure, Albert Yoon

5: Law Clerks, Artemus Ward

Part II: The Litigation Process and Appellate Review

6: Gatekeeping and Filtering in Trial Courts, Christina L. Boyd

7: Access to Intermediate Appellate Courts, Donald R. Songer and Susan B. Haire

8: Agenda-Setting on the United States Supreme Court, Ryan J. Owens and James Sieja

9: Courtroom Proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts, Timothy R. Johnson

Part III: Judicial Decision-Making and Opinion Content

10: Opinion Writing, Pamela C. Corley

11: Vertical Stare Decisis, Thomas G. Hansford

12: Law in Judicial Decision Making, David Klein

13: The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior and the Separation of Powers, Chad L. Westerland

14: Judicial Review, Tom Clark

15: The Role of Personal Attributes and Social Backgrounds on Judging, Tracey E. George and Taylor Grace Weaver

16: Ideology and Partisanship, Justine D'Elia-Kueper and Jeffrey A. Segal

17: The Economic Analysis of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein and Jack Knight

Part IV: Judges and their Publics

18: Judges and Their Audiences, Lawrence Baum

19: Interest Groups and the Judiciary, Jared Perkins and Paul M. Collins, Jr.

20: The Relationship between Courts and Legislatures, Thomas M. Keck

21: Courts and Executives, Jeffrey L. Yates and Scott Boddery

22: Covering the Courts, Rorie Solberg

23: The Supreme Court and Public Opinion, Joseph Daniel Ura and Alison Higgins

24: Judicial Impact, Matthew E.K. Hall

Part V: Methods and Approaches to Studying the Courts

25: Cognition in the Courts: Analyzing the Use of Experiments to Study Legal Decision-Making, Eileen Braman

26: New Measurement Technologies: A Review and Application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson, Daniel E. Ho and Michael Morse

27: The Use of Observational Data to Study Law and the Judiciary, Sara C. Benesh

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