Oral arguments before the supreme court
Subtitle: an empirical approach
By: Lawrence S. Wrightsman.
Series: American Psychology-Law Society series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780195368628
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- Decision making; Oral pleading -- United States; Forensic orations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oral arguments : are they no longer essential?; title: Justices' views on the significance of oral arguments; title: The behavior of advocates before the Supreme Court; title: Justices' questions and statements; title: The idiosyncratic nature of justices' behavior during oral arguments; title: Oral arguments in a landmark case; title: Predicting votes from oral arguments; title: Contentious issues.