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Specializing the courts /

Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baum, Lawrence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Colección:Chicago series in law and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems. . Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security, criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and economic iss.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-273) and index.
ISBN:9780226039565
0226039560
128305809X
9781283058094
0226039544
9780226039541
9786613058096
6613058092