Exploring judicial politics
By: Mark Miller.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Judicial process -- United States; Judicial power -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Courts -- United States; Courts of last resort -- United States; Appellate Courts -- United States; Justice, Administration of -- United States; Law -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the study of judicial politics, by Mark C. Miller; title: Differences in state judicial selection, by Aman L. McLeod; title: In their own interest : pressure groups in the federal judicial selection process, by Lauren Cohen Bell; title: Bringing the lawyers back in, by Lynn Mather; title: The politics of jury reform, by Robert G. Boatright; title: State courts : achieving justice in civil litigation, by Nicole L. Waters, Shauna M. Strickland & Brian J. Ostrom; title: U.S. district courts, litigation, and the policy making process, by Jeb Barnes; title: State supreme courts as policymakers : are they loved?, by Laura Langer and Teena Wilhelm; title: Appellate workhorses of the federal judiciary : the U.S. courts of appeals, by Wendy L. Martinek; title: The solicitor general : learned in the law and politics by Peter N. Ubertaccio III; title: Sorcerers' apprentices : U.S. Supreme Court law clerks, by Artemus Ward; title: The emergence and evolution of Supreme Court policy, by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr.; title: A court of laws or a super legislature? an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making, by Bryan W. Marshall, Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., and Christine Ludowise; title: Is there really a countermajoritarian problem?, by Michael Comiskey; title: Resistance to the judiciary : the boundaries of judicial power, by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.; title: The Supreme Court and race, by Barbara Perry; title: Women and the law, by Judith A. Baer; title: The federal courts and terrorism, by Louis Fisher; title: The interactions between the federal courts and the other branches, by Mark C. Miller; title: Comparative judicial studies, by Nancy Maveety.