Title: The Oxford handbook of U.S. judicial behavior /
Authors: Epstein, Lee, 1958-; Lindquist, Stefanie A., 1963-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Judicial process United States; Justice, Administration of United States; Courts United States; Judges United States; Courts; Judges; United States
Abstract: The chapters in this handbook reflect on aspects of judicial decision-making in U.S. courts, with a focus on the factors and institutional dynamics that shape the choices judges make. The authors have provided chapters that describe existing research on multiple aspects of the decision-making process and environment, including chapters on judicial appointments and elections, court personnel (law clerks), trial and appellate processes, precedent and case selection, lawyers, litigants and interest groups, intergovernmental dynamics and the separation of powers, judicial attitudes and background characteristics, public opinion, and judicial impact and the implementation of court decrees.
Contents: Appointing Federal Judges / Nancy Scherer -- Appointing Supeme Court Justices / Christine L. Nemacheck -- Judicial elections : judges and their "New-Style" constituencies / James L. Gibson and MIchael J. Nelson -- Federal judicial tenure / Albert Yoon -- Law clerks / Artemus Ward -- Gatekeeping and filtering in Trial Courts / Christina L. Boyd -- Access to intermediate appellate Courts / Donald R Songer and Susan B Haire -- Agenda-setting on the U.S. Supreme Court / Ryan J. Owens and James Sieja -- Courtroom proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts / Timothy R. Johnson -- Opinion writing / Pamela C. Corley -- Vertical Stare Decisis / Thomas G. Hansford -- Law in judicial decision-making / David Klein -- The strategic analysis of udicial behavior and the separation of powers / Chad L. Westerland -- Judicial review / Tom Clark -- The role of personal attributes and social backgrounds on judging / Tracy E. George and Taylor Grace Weaver -- Ideology and partisanship / Justine D'Ella-Kueper and Jeffrey A. Segal -- The economic analysis of judicial behavior / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight -- Judges and their audiences / Lawrence Baum -- Interest groups and the judiciary / Jared Perkins and Paul M. Collins, Jr. -- The relationship between ccourts and legislatures / Thomas M. Keck -- Courts and executives / Jeffrey L. Yates and Scott Boddery -- Coving the Courts / Rorie Solberg -- The Supreme Court and public opinion / Joseph Daniel Ura and Alisonn Higgins Merrill -- Judicial impact / Matthew E.K. Hall -- Cognition in the Courts : analyzing the use of experiments to study legal decision-making / Eileen Braman -- New Measurement technologies : a review and application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson / Daniel E. Ho and Michael Morse -- The use of observational data to stud law and the judiciary / Sara C. Benesh.