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What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake / edited by Charles Gardner Geyh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Stanford Studies in Law and Politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Judges--United States.
- Judges.
- Law--Political aspects--United States.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In What's Law Got to Do With It?, the nation's top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large. Although there is a growing consensus among legal scholars and political scientists, significant points of divergence remain. Contributors to this book explore ways to reach greater accord on the complexity and nuance of judicial decisionmaking and judicial elections, while acknowledging that agreement on what judges do is not likely to occur any time soon.
- Contents:
- Introduction : so what does law have to do with it? / Charles G. Geyh
- What's law got to do with it : thoughts from "the realm of political science" / Jeffrey A. Segal
- On the study of judicial behaviors : of law, politics, science and humility / Stephen B. Burbank
- Law and policy : more and less than a dichotomy / Lawrence Baum
- Law is politics / Frank B. Cross
- Path dependence in studies of legal decision making / Eileen Braman and J. Mitchell Pickerill
- Looking for law in all the wrong places : some suggestions for modeling legal decisionmaking / Barry Friedman and Andrew D. Martin
- Stare decisis as reciprocity norm / Stefanie A. Lindquist
- How judicial elections are like other elections and what that means for the rule of law / Matthew J. Streb
- On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall
- Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? / David Pozen
- Judging the politics of judging : are politicians in robes inevitably illegitimate? / James L. Gibson
- The rule of law is dead! Long live the rule of law! / Keith J. Bybee
- Views from the bench / Frank Sullivan, Nancy Vaidik, Sarah Evans Barker.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804782128
- 0804782121
- OCLC:
- 748241805
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