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The conscientious justice : how Supreme Court justices' personalities influence the law, the high court, and the Constitution / Ryan C. Black, Michigan State University; Ryan J. Owens, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Justin Wedeking, University of Kentucky; Patrick C. Wohlfarth, University of Maryland, College Park.
LIBRA KF8748 .B53 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Ryan C., 1982- author.
- Owens, Ryan J., 1976- author.
- Wedeking, Justin, author.
- Wohlfarth, Patrick C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "All human beings have personalities that influence their behavior. Though it may surprise some to hear, United States Supreme Court justices are human beings. What this means, of course, is that justices have personalities that in uence their behavior and, in turn, legal development and the United States Constitution. If Court watchers want to understand the Court, they must understand how justices' personalities shape their behavior. The goal of this book is to establish that justices' personalities and, more specifically, their conscientiousness, influence judicial decision making"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A Theory About Justices and Conscientiousness
- Measuring Justices' Conscientiousness
- Conscientiousness and Supreme Court Agenda Setting
- Conscientiousness and Legal Persuasion
- Conscientiousness and the US Solicitor General
- Conscientiousness and Majority Opinion Assignments
- Conscientiousness and Opinion Bargaining
- Conscientiousness and Supreme Court Opinion Content
- Conscientiousness and the Treatment of Precedent
- Conscientiousness and Public Opinion
- Conscientiousness and Recusal
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-347) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Black, Ryan C., The conscientious justice
- ISBN:
- 9781107168718
- 1107168716
- OCLC:
- 1112129885
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