Jurisprudential regimes : the Supreme Court, civil rights, and the life cycle of judicial doctrine / Marcella Marlowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marlowe, Marcella, 1974-

Series:

Law and society (New York, N.Y.)

Law and society : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial process--United States.

Judicial process.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marlowe's work draws on institutional-based Supreme Court literature, American Political Development literature, and emerging jurisprudential regime literature to argue that Court doctrine in caselaw follows a life cycle pattern consisting of a pre-governance phase, where the Court has not settled on a doctrinal test to apply consistently, a governance phase, where the Court establishes and consistently applies one doctrinal test in a given area of caselaw, and a post-governance phase, where consensus regarding the existing doctrinal test breaks down. She examines the life cycle pattern and it

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Jurisprudential Regimes; CHAPTER 2: Regimes & Phases - Telling a Story; CHAPTER 3: The Jim Crow Era; CHAPTER 4: The Civil Rights Era; CHAPTER 5: The Affirmative Action Era; CHAPTER 6: Bringing It All Together; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326623

1593326629

OCLC:

818818835