Author: United States. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judicial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Judicial Business of the United States Courts of the Seventh Circuit
Author: United States. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judicial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Behavior of Federal Judges
Author: Lee EpsteinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070682
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
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 their hypotheses from a labor-market model, which allows them to consider judges as they would any other economic actors: as self-interested individuals motivated by both the pecuniary and non-pecuniary aspects of their work. In the authors' view, this model describes judicial behavior better than either the traditional “legalist” theory, which sees judges as automatons who mechanically apply the law to the facts, or the current dominant theory in political science, which exaggerates the ideological component in judicial behavior. Ideology does figure into decision-making at all levels of the federal judiciary, the authors find, but its influence is not uniform. It diminishes as one moves down the judicial hierarchy from the Supreme Court to the courts of appeals to the district courts. As The Behavior of Federal Judges demonstrates, the good news is that ideology does not extinguish the influence of other components in judicial decision-making. Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes.
Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Author: District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit. Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury InstructionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Benchbook for U.S. District Court Judges
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of court proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
United States Attorneys' Manual
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Cohen V. City of Des Plaines
Author: Managing Class Action Litigation
Author: Barbara Jacobs RothsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Class actions (Civil procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Judicial Business of the United States Courts 2007
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160800870
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director. Contains statistical data on the business of the federal judiciary during fiscal year 2005. Compares the caseload for this year to those of prior fiscal years. Explains why increases or decreases occurred in the courts' caseload. Consists chiefly of tables.
Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Expense and Delay Reduction Plan
Author: United States. District Court (Massachusetts)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costs (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description