Title: The puzzle of judicial behavior
First published: 1997
Description: From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fate of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. With this book Lawrence Baum examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases.

He concludes that we are far from understanding why judges choose the positions they take in court. This book will be of interest to political scientists and scholars in law and courts as well as attorneys interested in understanding judges as decision makers and seeking to understand what we can learn from scholarly research about judicial behavior.
Subjects: Judicial process, Political questions and judicial power, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Judicial process, Social aspects, Social aspects of Judicial process, Judicial power
Places: United States
LC classification: KF8775 .B38 1997