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What's Law Got to Do With It? : What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What's at Stake.

In What's Law Got to Do With It?, the nation's top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large. Although there is a growing consensus among legal scholars and political s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geyh, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Colección:Stanford studies in law and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, Sarah Evans Barker.