What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake / edited by Charles Gardner Geyh.
2011
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Title
What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake / edited by Charles Gardner Geyh.
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford Law and Politics, [2011], ò011.
Call Number
KF8775.A75 W48 2011
ISBN
9780804775328 (cloth)
080477532X (cloth)
9780804775335 (pbk.)
0804775338 (pbk.)
080477532X (cloth)
9780804775335 (pbk.)
0804775338 (pbk.)
Description
xi, 355 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)703871574
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: So What Does Law Have to Do with It? / Charles Gardner Geyh
1
pt. I
Setting the Stage: The Debate over What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do
1.
What's Law Got to Do with It: Thoughts from "The Realm of Political Science" / Jeffrey A. Segal
17
2.
On the Study of Judicial Behaviors: Of Law, Politics, Science, and Humility / Stephen B. Burbank
41
pt. II
Distinguishing Law from Other Influences on Judicial Decision-making
3.
Law and Policy: More and Less than a Dichotomy / Lawrence Baum
71
4.
Law Is Politics / Frank B. Cross
92
5.
Path Dependence in Studies of Legal Decision-making / J. Mitchell Pickerill
114
6.
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decision-making / Andrew D. Martin
143
7.
Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm / Stefanie A. Lindquist
173
pt. III
What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Judicial Selection
8.
How Judicial Elections Are Like Other Elections and What That Means for the Rule of Law / Metthew J. Streb
197
9.
On the Cataclysm of Judicial Elections and Other Popular Antidemocratic Myths / Melinda Gann Hall
223
10.
Are Judicial Elections Democracy-Enhancing? / David Pozen
248
pt. IV
What Law has to do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Public Confidence in the Courts
11.
Judging the Politics of Judging: Are Politicians in Robes Inevitably Illegitimate? / James L. Gibson
281
12.
The Rule of Law Is Dead! Long Live the Rule of Law! / Keith J. Bybee
306
13.
Three Views from the Bench / Sarah Evans Barker
328
About the Contributors
343
Index
345