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What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake

Title

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

Published

Description

xi, 355 pages ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Geyh, Charles Gardner, editor of compilation.

Uniform series

Law, politics, and the media.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index. Library copy 2 signed by the editor and author.

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, and Sarah Evans Barker.

Subject headings

Judges--United States. Judicial process--United States. Law--Political aspects--United States.

ISBN

9780804775328 (cloth) 080477532X (cloth) 9780804775335 (pbk.) 0804775338 (pbk.)