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

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Geyh, Charles Gardner
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Table of 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, Sarah Evans Barker.