Specializing the courts / Lawrence Baum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baum, Lawrence.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States.

Judges.

Courts--United States.

Courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems. Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security, criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and economic issues in the private sector. Baum examines the process by which court systems in the United States have become increasingly specialized and the motives that have led to the growth of specialization. He also considers the effects of judicial specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that under certain conditions, specialization can and does have fundamental effects on the policies that courts make. For this reason, the movement toward greater specialization constitutes a major change in the judiciary.

Contents:

A first look at judicial specialization

Perspectives on causes and consequences

Foreign policy and internal security

Criminal cases

Economic issues : government litigation

Economic issues : private litigation

Putting the pieces together.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613058096

9781283058094

128305809X

9780226039565

0226039560

OCLC:

701053890