What's law got to do with it?
Subtitle: what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake
By: edited by Charles Gardner Geyh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780804775328; 9780804775335
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Judicial process; Law; Judges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : so what does law have to do with it? / Charles G. Geyh; title: What's law got to do with it : thoughts from "the realm of political science" / Jeffrey A. Segal; title: On the study of judicial behaviors : of law, politics, science and humility / Stephen B. Burbank; title: Law and policy : more and less than a dichotomy / Lawrence Baum; title: Law is politics / Frank B. Cross; title: Path dependence in studies of legal decision making / Eileen Braman and J. Mitchell Pickerill; title: Looking for law in all the wrong places : some suggestions for modeling legal decisionmaking / Barry Friedman and Andrew D. Martin; title: Stare decisis as reciprocity norm / Stefanie A. Lindquist; title: How judicial elections are like other elections and what that means for the rule of law / Matthew J. Streb; title: On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall; title: Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? / David Pozen; title: Judging the politics of judging : are politicians in robes inevitably illegitimate? / James L. Gibson; title: The rule of law is dead! Long live the rule of law! / Keith J. Bybee; title: Views from the bench / Frank Sullivan, Nancy Vaidik, Sarah Evans Barker.