Scores of works have made important contributions to the study of courts and judges but far fewer are sufficiently powerful to alter perspectives about entire areas of study. The articles in this volume do just that. They are, to be sure, a rather diverse set covering four substantive concerns a judicial selection and retention, judicial decision making, constraints on judicial power and the role of courts in democracies a but all have played crucial roles in shaping or changing the way we think about courts and judges."
Scores of works have made important contributions to the study of courts and judges but far fewer are sufficiently powerful to alter perspectives abou...
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making. Using statistical methods to test hypotheses, they dispel the mystery of how judicial decisions in district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court are made.
The authors derive...
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The s...
This excellent two-volume collection contains the very best studies that take an economic approach to the study of judicial behaviour. The authors hail from the disciplines of business, economics, history, law, and political science, and the topics they cover are equally varied. Subjects include the judges' motivations, judicial independence, precedent, judging on collegial courts and in the hierarchy of justice and the relationship between judges and the other government actors. Together with an original introduction by Professor Epstein, this selection of papers will be a vital tool for...
This excellent two-volume collection contains the very best studies that take an economic approach to the study of judicial behaviour. The authors hai...
Professor Walter F Murphy, Lee Epstein, Jack Knight (Washington University St Louis)
Now in a readily available republication edition (in library-quality hardcover format), and adding a substantive, detailed 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new generation of thoughtful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its justices create judicial decisions. As Epstein and Knight write, this book is "extraordinary. It's the rarest of rare: a breakthrough of the path-marking, even paradigm-shifting, variety...." Its initial publication offered a "huge conceptual breakthrough. ELEMENTS was the first to offer a...
Now in a readily available republication edition (in library-quality hardcover format), and adding a substantive, detailed 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstei...
Professor Walter F Murphy, Lee Epstein, Jack Knight (Washington University St Louis)
Now in a readily available and modern republication edition, and adding a substantive, detailed 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new generation of thoughtful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its justices create judicial decisions. As Epstein and Knight write, this book is "extraordinary. It's the rarest of rare: a breakthrough of the path-marking, even paradigm-shifting, variety...." Its publication offered a "huge conceptual breakthrough. Elements was the first to offer a strategic account" of judging, and...
Now in a readily available and modern republication edition, and adding a substantive, detailed 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this cla...
