Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda

by Vanessa A. Baird

Book Overview

The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court?s agenda. Vanessa A. Baird?s Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda represents the first scholarly attempt to connect justices? priorities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925827
• ISBN13: 9780813925820
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"