Law clerks, support personnel, and the decline of consensual norms on the United States Supreme Court, 1935-1995
By: Bradley J. Best.
Series: American legal institutions
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- History.; Judicial opinions -- United States -- History.; Law clerks -- United States -- History.; Judicial process -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a new theory of the decline in consensual norms on the United States Supreme Court; title: Research design : testing an alternative formulation of the small group hypothesis as an explanation of the historical decline in consensual norms; title: The law clerks : informal organization on the United States Supreme Court; title: Law clerks, support staff, and nonconsensual opinion writing : examining basic relationships; title: Analyzing changes in the membership of the United States Supreme Court : toward a multivariate explanation of nonconsensual opinion writing; title: Law clerks, support personnel, and the writing of nonconsensual opinions : controlling for changes in the Court's membership; title: Modeling the effects of law clerks and support personnel on the writing of nonconsensual opinions : controlling for changes in caseload and docket composition.