The view from the bench and chambers : examining judicial process and decision making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals / Jennifer Barnes Bowie, Donald R. Songer, and John Szmer.
2014
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Title
The view from the bench and chambers : examining judicial process and decision making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals / Jennifer Barnes Bowie, Donald R. Songer, and John Szmer.
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KF8750 .B69 2014
ISBN
9780813935997 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813935997 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813936000 (e-book)
0813935997 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813936000 (e-book)
Description
x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)871186990
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Courts of Appeals in the U.S. Legal System
1
1.
The Judges and Cases
11
2.
The Preliminaries: Setting the Agenda, Oral Argument, and Assigning the Opinion of the Court
30
3.
Decision Making and Writing the Opinion of the Court
87
4.
Separate Opinion Writing on the Courts of Appeals
132
5.
Explaining Attitudinal and Legal Influences on Decisions
155
6.
Strategic Accounts of Decision Making
178
7.
The Congruence of Social Science and the Perceptions of the Judges
228
Technical Appendix
237
Notes
249
Bibliography
267
Index
275