Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Courts - General

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theoretical insights and extensive data analysis to show that law and politics together shape the behavior of justices on the Supreme Court.

Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman show how two types of constraints have influenced the decision making of the modern Court. First, Bailey and Maltzman document that important legal doctrines, such as respect for precedents, have influenced...

The chief mandate of the criminal justice system is not to prosecute the guilty but to safeguard the innocent from wrongful convictions; with this startling assertion, legal scholar George Thomas launches his critique of the U.S. system and its emphasis on procedure at the expense of true justice.

Thomas traces the history of jury trials, an important component of the U.S. justice system, since the American Founding. In the mid-twentieth century, when it became evident that racism and other forms of discrimination were corrupting the system, the Warren Court established procedure as...

To what extent do courts make social and public policy and influence policy change? This innovative text analyzes this question generally and in seven distinct policy areas that play out in both federal and state courts-tax policy, environmental policy, reproductive rights, sex equality, affirmative action, school finance, and same-sex marriage. The authors address these issues through the twin lenses of how state and federal courts must and do interact with the other branches of government and whether judicial policy-making is a form of activist judging.

Each chapter uncovers the...

Seit dem Inkrafttreten der FGG-Reform zum 1. September 2009 haben sich wiederum zahlreiche Anderungen des Kostenrechts der streitigen Gerichtsbarkeiten ergeben, die eine Neuauflage erforderlich machten. Das bewahrte Standardwerk zum Kostenrecht enthalt die Kommentierung zum GKG sowie zum FamGKG mit Kostenverzeichnis und Auslagen. Die Neuauflage befindet sich auf dem Bearbeitungsstand Juli 2011.