Inside appellate courts
Subtitle: the impact of court organization on judicial decision making in the United States Courts of Appeals
By: Jonathan Matthew Cohen.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Judicial process -- United States.; Judgments -- United States.; Appellate courts -- United States.
Description: "Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the decisions of appellate judges are affected by the way a court is organized. Drawing on interviews with more than 75 federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization have impinged on judges' abilities to bestow justice. By viewing the courts of appeals as large-scale organizations, Inside Appellate Courts elucidates how courts have walked the tightrope between justice and efficiency to increase the number of cases they decide without sacrificing their ability to dispense a high level of justice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The bureaucratization of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; title: The organizational character of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; title: The formal features of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; title: The internal structure of the appellate judicial chambers and the role of the law clerk; title: Structure and the interaction among judicial chambers; title: Organizational culture in the appellate judicial process; title: Tilting the balance : organizational behavior and organizational change in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.