Law, Politics, & Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning

by Eileen Braman

Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal inclinations or legal authority? The answer, Eileen Braman argues, is both. Law, Politics, and Perception brings cognitive psychology to bear on the question of the relative importance of norms of legal reasoning versus decision markers' policy preferences in legal decision-making. While Braman acknowledges that decision makers' attitudes--or, more precisely, their preference for policy outcomes--can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392829X
• ISBN13: 9780813928296
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"